Hi there,
Good suggestions here in europe, ...Hogobling flutes crap or...
some info please.
Good wooden flutes for reasonable price, where to buy?
-
uilleannfinlander
- Posts: 936
- Joined: Fri Oct 31, 2003 6:34 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: Finland,Oulu-city200km south from articcirclr
- Contact:
-
Berti66
- Posts: 1163
- Joined: Sun Dec 28, 2003 10:52 am
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: south east netherlands
phil bleazey from the UK.........also depends on what you call a reasonable price......could also add marcus hernon
http://www.bleazey.co.uk/
http://www.piping.se/marcushernon.htm
maybe others have some more suggestions.
berti
http://www.bleazey.co.uk/
http://www.piping.se/marcushernon.htm
maybe others have some more suggestions.
berti
-
glauber
- Posts: 4967
- Joined: Thu Aug 22, 2002 6:00 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: I'm from Brazil, living in the Chicago area (USA)
- Contact:
Somebody needs to mention Michael Cronnolly, so why not me?
http://www.irishflutes.net
http://www.irishflutes.net
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog!
--Wellsprings--
--Wellsprings--
-
Berti66
- Posts: 1163
- Joined: Sun Dec 28, 2003 10:52 am
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: south east netherlands
and oh I forgot:
ormiston http://www.ormistonflutes.fsnet.co.uk/
hamilton http://homepage.tinet.ie/~hammie/
both regarded highly.....first easier on hands and smaller holes, the other bigger holes and big sound!
berti
ormiston http://www.ormistonflutes.fsnet.co.uk/
hamilton http://homepage.tinet.ie/~hammie/
both regarded highly.....first easier on hands and smaller holes, the other bigger holes and big sound!
berti
-
glauber
- Posts: 4967
- Joined: Thu Aug 22, 2002 6:00 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: I'm from Brazil, living in the Chicago area (USA)
- Contact:
Yep! Those are all good. You have some fun research to do! 
Contact these gentlemen, see what they have to offer.
One more and i'm done:
Eamonn Cotter
Work: 353-65-683-9141
E-Mail: cotter2 at eircom dot net (unconfirmed)
Balleen, Kilmaley, County Clare
Ireland
Note: Call around 5pm Irish time
I myself have a Cotter and a Cronolly (aka M&E). Both relatively inexpensive and excellent flutes. I also have a Hamilton piccolo.
Contact these gentlemen, see what they have to offer.One more and i'm done:
Eamonn Cotter
Work: 353-65-683-9141
E-Mail: cotter2 at eircom dot net (unconfirmed)
Balleen, Kilmaley, County Clare
Ireland
Note: Call around 5pm Irish time
I myself have a Cotter and a Cronolly (aka M&E). Both relatively inexpensive and excellent flutes. I also have a Hamilton piccolo.
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog!
--Wellsprings--
--Wellsprings--
-
kkrell
- Posts: 4840
- Joined: Mon Jul 29, 2002 6:00 pm
- antispam: No
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 8
- Tell us something.: Mostly producer of the Wooden Flute Obsession 3-volume 6-CD 7-hour set of mostly player's choice of Irish tunes, played mostly solo, on mostly wooden flutes by approximately 120 different mostly highly-rated traditional flute players & are mostly...
- Location: Los Angeles
- Contact:
Let me add: Martin Doyle, in Bray, Ireland (south of Dublin), and Giles Lehart (Brittany/France).
Kevin Krell
Kevin Krell
International Traditional Music Society, Inc.
A non-profit 501c3 charity/educational public benefit corporation
Wooden Flute Obsession CDs (3 volumes, 6 discs, 7 hours, 120 players/tracks)
https://www.worldtrad.org
A non-profit 501c3 charity/educational public benefit corporation
Wooden Flute Obsession CDs (3 volumes, 6 discs, 7 hours, 120 players/tracks)
https://www.worldtrad.org
-
Hoed
- Posts: 111
- Joined: Sun Feb 23, 2003 6:00 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: The Netherlands
The website http://www.whistleanddrum.com has some flutes of Arie DeKeyzer in stock for a reasonable price ($550). I don't know much about these flutes, but they look nice. Maybe someone on this board has some experience with these flutes?
"Ken sent me"
- Larry Laffer
- Larry Laffer
-
benwalker
- Posts: 756
- Joined: Mon Mar 15, 2004 1:09 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: Darwen Lancashire
- Contact:
Someone "gave" me a flute by De Keyser about 3 years ago. I have played it non stop for that time . I can honestly say that it has been a solid instrument. Not exceptional, but good enough and for nothin' who can complain?
I have heard his flutes can be a mixed bag either very good but I think he may have produced some shockers!
In my experience his flutes are well worth the money.
Better then some much more expensive instruments!
I have heard his flutes can be a mixed bag either very good but I think he may have produced some shockers!
In my experience his flutes are well worth the money.
Better then some much more expensive instruments!
-
kkrell
- Posts: 4840
- Joined: Mon Jul 29, 2002 6:00 pm
- antispam: No
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 8
- Tell us something.: Mostly producer of the Wooden Flute Obsession 3-volume 6-CD 7-hour set of mostly player's choice of Irish tunes, played mostly solo, on mostly wooden flutes by approximately 120 different mostly highly-rated traditional flute players & are mostly...
- Location: Los Angeles
- Contact:
Yes, I tried a 6-key in Mopane that was for Eamonn de Barra. I don't know what Desi's prices are for wood flutes, as he custom quotes them, so wasn't sure if it fit the original poster's request. Even so, I thought the other possibilities had not been covered.talasiga wrote:Does not Desi Seery make wooden flutes still?kkrell wrote:Let me add: Martin Doyle, in Bray, Ireland (south of Dublin), and Giles Lehart (Brittany/France).
Kevin Krell
The price of his blackwood was reasonable when I bought it in 1993.
Kevin Krell
International Traditional Music Society, Inc.
A non-profit 501c3 charity/educational public benefit corporation
Wooden Flute Obsession CDs (3 volumes, 6 discs, 7 hours, 120 players/tracks)
https://www.worldtrad.org
A non-profit 501c3 charity/educational public benefit corporation
Wooden Flute Obsession CDs (3 volumes, 6 discs, 7 hours, 120 players/tracks)
https://www.worldtrad.org
-
Blackbeer
- Posts: 1112
- Joined: Wed Dec 04, 2002 6:00 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: Wrong side of Washington state
OK, OK I guess I will have to do it again; I know its my fault for not having the gonads to make a mp3 of how good this flute sounds but Tony Dixon makes a wounderful wooden flute. I just ate a candy bar so I have to wait a few minutes before I can start playing with mine but realy it is a nice flute. I am learning so much about my now two favorite flute woods. Rosewood is so dark and almost forboading in its timber but this one is also crisp and responsive if I ask it to be. Boxwood is so much different ,,,, well anyway the Dixon 3 piece rosewood that I have is very nice. I actualy emailed him to tell him that this was the best flute he had ever made, in hopes of making him wish he would have kept it. But he is to nice a guy to fall for that. Anyway I didn`t want to see him left out. Does anybody know what the temp in Ketchikan Alaska was today???
Well I `ll tell yo u........94 degrees Fair. 10000 tourists
Tom
Well I `ll tell yo u........94 degrees Fair. 10000 tourists
Tom
-
Whistlin'Dixie
- Posts: 2281
- Joined: Sun Mar 31, 2002 6:00 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: It's too darn hot!
-
Azathoth
- Posts: 132
- Joined: Mon Jan 26, 2004 3:03 am
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: Pinneberg, Germany
Doing my bit to wrap up more than one comment, and with an interest in this since I am going to Hobgoblin in July to have a look at their "crap", I wonder if anyone can fill me in on four other makers which Hobgoblin currently sell (and not including their secondhand selection, which always seems to have a few on offer):
1. Hobgoblin sells a 3-piece Dixon Rosewood. Is this the one you mean, Blackbeer??
2. Hobgoblin also sells Ray Sloan flutes
3. Hobgoblin also sells John Rutzen flutes, with an interesting innovation, the headjoint is made out of polymer, whilst the rest is wooden, as "normal"
4. Not for sale on the website but in the local shops are D flutes by Dave Williams (i.e. the pipemaker) in both keyless and 4-key versions.
Link for items 1.-3.: http://www.hobgoblin.com/local/cartflut.htm (all at the bottom of the page).
Link for item 4.: http://www.hobgoblin.com/local/shops/pr ... 20WHISTLES
I'm gonna try them all anyway, but I'm *especially* interested in the Williams 4-key. Any opinions at all on his flutes would be very very welcome indeed.
Thanks!
1. Hobgoblin sells a 3-piece Dixon Rosewood. Is this the one you mean, Blackbeer??
2. Hobgoblin also sells Ray Sloan flutes
3. Hobgoblin also sells John Rutzen flutes, with an interesting innovation, the headjoint is made out of polymer, whilst the rest is wooden, as "normal"
4. Not for sale on the website but in the local shops are D flutes by Dave Williams (i.e. the pipemaker) in both keyless and 4-key versions.
Link for items 1.-3.: http://www.hobgoblin.com/local/cartflut.htm (all at the bottom of the page).
Link for item 4.: http://www.hobgoblin.com/local/shops/pr ... 20WHISTLES
I'm gonna try them all anyway, but I'm *especially* interested in the Williams 4-key. Any opinions at all on his flutes would be very very welcome indeed.
Thanks!
-
Steampacket
- Posts: 3077
- Joined: Thu Jul 25, 2002 6:00 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: Sweden
I'm gonna try them all anyway, but I'm *especially* interested in the Williams 4-key. Any opinions at all on his flutes would be very very welcome indeed.
I have a four key Williams blackwood flute with a short foot and it's been a very good flute. It's modeled after a R&R from the 1840's Dave told me. I had it a long time, many years, before I started to play it on a regular basis, as I was learning the pipes. The mouth hole is very like that on a Wilkes (mine anyway), not an oval, sort of a circle with elongated sides. Not one of these so called "easy-to-play" squarish mouth holes I've been hearing about that you can find on Olwell and McGee flutes. Like the Wilkes the Williams can play loud if you want it too, it's well made and in tune.
I have a four key Williams blackwood flute with a short foot and it's been a very good flute. It's modeled after a R&R from the 1840's Dave told me. I had it a long time, many years, before I started to play it on a regular basis, as I was learning the pipes. The mouth hole is very like that on a Wilkes (mine anyway), not an oval, sort of a circle with elongated sides. Not one of these so called "easy-to-play" squarish mouth holes I've been hearing about that you can find on Olwell and McGee flutes. Like the Wilkes the Williams can play loud if you want it too, it's well made and in tune.