Damaged flute - inquiries from a neophyte

felixbm · Post by **felixbm** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:58 pm

Hi everyone, sa mentionned in this post's title, I don't know much about Irish flutes, i'm only a rookie whistle player that felt in love with Irish music. i'm pretty poor right now, and i'm searching for a cheap flute on Ebay. So I found this one :

It's used, and damaged. My question is, Is it repairable, and is it a good flute for a begginer. Is 3 or 4 pounds and shipping costs a waste? Thanks

Jon C. · Post by **Jon C.** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:07 pm

Hi,
Welcome to the site.
As far as the above mentioned flute, I would say no, this is not the flute for you. I doubt the flute is repairable, or worth repairing.
You might want to get a good beginner flute, like a Tipple or Dixon instead of ending up with some scrap wood...

Good luck!

Aanvil · Post by **Aanvil** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:25 pm

I saw this earlier today too.

I'd say there are a fair many chairs missing legs in County Roscommon.

I think you are making a good call Jon.

bepoq · Post by **bepoq** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:34 am

In case the lads above did not make it clear enough: if this flute were in perfect condition, I would strongly (only more strongly than that) recommend against it.

Matt_Paris · Post by **Matt_Paris** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:49 am

To make this even clearer, this is a Ganley flute. The worst ones I ever tried (and in 12 years of practice, I tried a lot of bad instruments).

Hope my post is not inappropriate. If it is, please remove it.

cocusflute · Post by **cocusflute** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:42 am

A wealthy woman I know went to Ireland a few years back and bought a Ganley flute for about £600 (!). The flute was black-- but it was painted black, not blackwood. The keys were cut from aluminun sheet. It was not playable. It was a total loss.
If there is an upside to this, it is that she could easily afford it and the money probably went back into the Irish economy.

Doc Jones · Post by **Doc Jones** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:31 pm

Run away!

Doc

joelcvds · Post by **joelcvds** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:36 pm

If you are looking for a reliable playable starter flute, I suggest emailing David and Nina Shorey at http://antiqueflutes.com/ and asking if they have a cheap one.
-Joel

Post by **Nanohedron** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:18 pm

joelcvds wrote:If you are looking for a reliable playable starter flute, I suggest emailing David and Nina Shorey at http://antiqueflutes.com/ and asking if they have a cheap one.
-Joel

The original poster asked after "Irish" flutes, so I'm presuming the quest was for simple-system conical bore instruments, which the Shoreys appear not to deal in as best as I can tell: all the ones I checked on were, although definitely vintage, of modern systems (Boehm, Radcliff), so felixbm might not have those at all in mind, although I thought the prices were quite nice for what they were. You could shell out 14K easily for a well-made modern-day wooden Boehm flute, for example!

That being said, here's something you don't see every day in a wood flute with a B foot (and sorry about the pic size: it was smaller on the website in question. Dunno how that happens):

The body is ONE PIECE. Holy buckets.

chas · Post by **chas** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:00 pm

Drool.

The Shoreys do deal extensively in simple-system flutes; there are quite a few in their catalog and they'll be at Boxwood this summer talking about them.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:10 pm

Nanohedron wrote:Dunno how that happens):
<img src="http://www.antiqueflutes.com/web%20phot ... 9.full.jpg" width="250" height="800">

gotta love those mysteries

Jon C. · Post by **Jon C.** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:16 pm

chas wrote:Drool.

The Shoreys do deal extensively in simple-system flutes; there are quite a few in their catalog and they'll be at Boxwood this summer talking about them.

They live near by, just 30 minutes away! I should go visit them.

Aanvil · Post by **Aanvil** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:59 pm

Culver City!

Post by **Nanohedron** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:35 am

Chas, I stand corrected. Thanks.

Denny wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:Dunno how that happens):
<img src="http://www.antiqueflutes.com/web%20phot ... 9.full.jpg" width="250" height="800">
gotta love those mysteries

Showoff. How'd you do that?

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:18 pm

[quote="Denny"]...and if you can not find a resonable sized picture...
<img src="link to picture" width="900" height="540">

note: the width and height will need some fussing with.[/quote]

Except he had entered width="250" and height="800" for this photo.

Now if only I could find a way to rotate images 90 degrees.

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