Thank you for your kind observations. You are a very, very considerate person!jemtheflute wrote:It might help your sale if you stated what key this flute is in, gave a basic verbal description (timber, how many keys etc.) and either some idea (if not a direct statement) of price or how you prefer to be contacted to discuss that. You might also make a post in the Used Instrument Exchange.
This actually made me laugh. Most amusing thing I've read all day. Thank you for either a virtuosic level of sarcasm, or a Brobdingnagian level of obliviousness.laridee wrote:Thank you for your kind observations. You are a very, very considerate person!jemtheflute wrote:It might help your sale if you stated what key this flute is in, gave a basic verbal description (timber, how many keys etc.) and either some idea (if not a direct statement) of price or how you prefer to be contacted to discuss that. You might also make a post in the Used Instrument Exchange.
Come on... obviously it's a D flute, obviously it's a six keyed flute, obviously it's an expensive flute... and obviously it's a very special flute... do you need more??? I'm sure there are people around already making offers for that flute, without asking for more details...FascinatedWanderer wrote:This actually made me laugh. Most amusing thing I've read all day. Thank you for either a virtuosic level of sarcasm, or a Brobdingnagian level of obliviousness.
I think FascinatedWanderer's comment was less to weather-or-not Jem's advice was necessary and more to weather-or-not Jem's advice was appreciated.Etruscan wrote:Come on... obviously it's a D flute, obviously it's a six keyed flute, obviously it's an expensive flute... and obviously it's a very special flute... do you need more??? I'm sure there are people around already making offers for that flute, without asking for more details...FascinatedWanderer wrote:This actually made me laugh. Most amusing thing I've read all day. Thank you for either a virtuosic level of sarcasm, or a Brobdingnagian level of obliviousness.
Please congratulate yourself for acquitting yourself.jemtheflute wrote:Whether the weather be fair or foul, I had a reason for asking about what key this flute is in, besides that being sensible basic info to provide for any sale offering........
In (I think) June 1998 I attended some free gigs in Cardiff associated with the European Summit held there that year. I picked Chris Wilkes up en route. Jean-Michel was over because he was participating in one of the concerts and he came to Chris's to collect an Eb flute Chris had just finished for him. I got to play both that and the 8-key D Wilkes flute he already had (had then had for a few years). Much more recently (maybe c3 years ago) J-M told me he had sold one of them/a Wilkes flute - I think, but am not certain he said the Eb. I also thought he said he still had the other one (the D?) and was using it between trying out assorted new Morvans & Poljezes (he jokes about playing them in for the makers!). So, seeing this sale, I was a little puzzled and I am trying to tie up what I know and clarify the bits I'm not certain of, as well as attempting to be helpful to the vendor.
I confess I had not (lack of time) perused the photoset linked in the OP when I wrote before - and I now see this is indeed a 6-keyer. Both the D and Eb flutes I saw in '98 were (SFAIR) full 8-keyers, but I'm not totally sure about the Eb on that point, nor whether it was Rudall or Pratten type. So unless this is a third Wilkes which J-M owned......
I believe the 8-key D Wilkes I am referring to and which I believe he still has is the one illustrated on J-M's website, which is a large-holed Rudall model:
One can see that this is not the flute on offer here.... and I have no recollection of "meeting" the one for sale.
.... And I think I have now solved the (to me) mystery - I've just checked the sleeve notes on Er Pasker - J-M had at that time both the D 8-key Rudall and a D Pratten from CW, and used both on that CD.
So, there we go. But I did have sound reason to wonder whether this might be the Eb.
It's so nice to be understood. Thanks!Etruscan wrote:Come on... obviously it's a D flute, obviously it's a six keyed flute, obviously it's an expensive flute... and obviously it's a very special flute... do you need more??? I'm sure there are people around already making offers for that flute, without asking for more details...FascinatedWanderer wrote:This actually made me laugh. Most amusing thing I've read all day. Thank you for either a virtuosic level of sarcasm, or a Brobdingnagian level of obliviousness.
Now I remember why I don't read this forum anymore.emmdee wrote:How odd. The OP's response to Jem didn't make me laugh at all. What it did do was make me think they are a bollocks. Join C&F, first post is to sell this flute. Ignore the UIE. Don't put a desired price - C&F isn't an auction site, last time I checked. Then, when an established C&F member gave them some friendly advice they flamed him. Bol-locks...
Of course, offering an 8 keyed Wilkes Pratten for sale is pretty much like offering booze to Oliver Reed. No doubt it'll generate considerable interest. The OP is more interested in selling the flute than in being nice, it seems.
m.d.
