walking stick flute on eBay

Casey Burns · Post by **Casey Burns** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:02 am

This looks interesting:
http://cgi.ebay.com/OLD-CARVED-TUSK-HEA ... dZViewItem

Casey

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:07 am

Wow!!!

That is one lovely flute.

Talk about a living remnant of another age...

If I had the money, I'd be very tempted.

--James

crookedtune · Post by **crookedtune** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:08 am

Clarinet? What's the embouchure hole for?

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:19 am

There's a walking stick flute chez Doc Jones.

I lose walking sticks.

Guinness · Post by **Guinness** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:52 am

Beautiful. German flute with appendiges? I'm tempted to convert one but then I'll have to get a matching penguin suit and top hat. Perhaps a monocle even.

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:18 am

You would look groovy that way!

jemtheflute · Post by **jemtheflute** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 12:22 pm

Guinness wrote:Beautiful. German flute with appendages? I'm tempted to convert one but then I'll have to get a matching penguin suit and top hat. Perhaps a monocle even.

Not German. Definitely French, as the seller lists it. Look at the keywork carefully. Truly beautiful.

Given the prices walking stick flutes can command, making some out of the occasional Nach Meyer might be a good idea. Certainly better than the lampstand option we had a thread about earlier this year! They would at least still be playable if it was done properly.

sbfluter · Post by **sbfluter** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 12:50 pm

How do you play a walking stick flute? I have sticks I use for hiking. They are probably much longer than a walking stick flute. But even if I were to shorten them to hip-high, that would make for a mighty long flute with a tip at the end perfect for accidentally stabbing somebody in the eye.

Are you supposed to take them apart when you play? Or is it just a novelty.

I've seen all kinds of weird walking stick instruments. Even violins. Well, mostly violins actually.

Doc Jones · Post by **Doc Jones** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 12:54 pm

Very cool,

Though I'd prefer a keyless for a walking stick. I wonder what the laws are governing ivory import into the US.

Doc

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:04 pm

sbfluter wrote:How do you play a walking stick flute? I have sticks I use for hiking. They are probably much longer than a walking stick flute. But even if I were to shorten them to hip-high, that would make for a mighty long flute with a tip at the end perfect for accidentally stabbing somebody in the eye.

Are you supposed to take them apart when you play? Or is it just a novelty.

I've seen all kinds of weird walking stick instruments. Even violins. Well, mostly violins actually.

If you look at Ralph Sweet's you will see that
there is a vent below the finger holes so that it can play,
while it is fully assembled Also, notice that the bottom section
can be lengthened so that a Bb fife is the same length as a D flute.

If you search for "Walking" in the Dayton C Miller collection, you can find many other examples of these flutes.

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:05 pm

http://irishflutestore.com/newsite/products.php?pf=1

Bottom of the page. A good flute, apparently.

But why one would walk around with a flute/walking
stick baffles me. So one is ready for requests?
Above all, the flute is perpetually in harms way,
or in danger of being lost.

I love walking sticks. I've
used them for many years.
Sooner or later I lose them.

Jon C. · Post by **Jon C.** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:41 pm

Casey Burns wrote:This looks interesting:
http://cgi.ebay.com/OLD-CARVED-TUSK-HEA ... dZViewItem

Casey

You should get it Casey, the crown is in your likeness!

Jon C. · Post by **Jon C.** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:43 pm

You have to wonder how a French flute ended up in Argentina, maybe it was brought there after the war, by fleeing Nazi's?

sbfluter · Post by **sbfluter** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:04 pm

So you ARE supposed to play it with 3 extra feet of wood sticking out to your right then. Hmm. It would be really hard to play at the lunch spot on my Sierra Club hikes. I might poke someone sitting on the boulder to my right!

jemtheflute · Post by **jemtheflute** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:20 pm

sbfluter wrote:So you ARE supposed to play it with 3 extra feet of wood sticking out to your right then. Hmm. It would be really hard to play at the lunch spot on my Sierra Club hikes. I might poke someone sitting on the boulder to my right!

Serve 'em right!

There aren't any on at the moment, but there's a guy regularly selling walking staff flutes on eBay lately - look nice too, but a bit short for my tastes. I like a walking staff to be my own height or an inch or two more, i.e. 6' plus. Never saw the point in anything shorter. You can't vault streams etc. or knock down things from trees so well with short sticks, and a full-length staff is much better for helping on steep descents. I've always cut my own hazel ones - no good for flutes, though.

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