Perfection?

[Doug_Tipple]

I enjoyed this thread. I know I'm never going to buy a high end flute. If I had $4,000 ready to spend on something, a flute wouldn't be it, that's for sure. What this thread did make me wonder about though, is how much additional cost would there be to making a flute look very pretty? If a person was going to spend $4,000 on a flute that sounded good, wouldn't they spend $1,000 more to have some custom carving? I can appreciate the OP's desire to have something of beauty, both of sight and sound.

Personally, I wouldn't want any custom carving on an expensive Irish flute that I might purchase. I like the elegance of a straightforward design done with good craftsmenship. Likewise with violins. The best and most-expensive violins in the world are not the ones with fancy carving on the scroll and back.

[jim stone]

Endcaps are an art form in themselves. Not only inlayed caps but lovely designs
entirely of wood. Murray, Burns, Olwell....

http://www.noyflutes.com/photos/images_ ... silver.jpg

[Nanohedron]

I like the elegance of a straightforward design done with good craftsmenship.

Yeah, that's pretty much my taste, too. When I had Pete Noy make my flute, I specified that all I wanted for its looks was the classic and clean-looking standard you'd see out of your "typical" antique flute. Elegance in simplicity.

[Denny]

blingless....so sad

[Nanohedron]

blingless....so sad

You have only yourself to blame for what follows:

[jim stone]

http://www.noyflutes.com/photos/images_ ... hatter.jpg

http://www.noyflutes.com/photos/images_ ... _amber.jpg

http://www.noyflutes.com/photos/images_ ... _ameth.jpg

I confess these make my heart beat faster.

[Denny]

blingless....so sad

You have only yourself to blame

don'tcha just hate it when they beg?


I was thinkin' more along the lines of JessieK's Noy,
somehow the stick on disco ball tape does not work for me.

I suppose that, given the economy, having to hire a body guard
to look after the flute, if yer off to the loo or somethin', could be considered a good thing.

They would also help keep the laughter down!

[Kirk B]

blingless....so sad

You have only yourself to blame for what follows:

He may have learned to play from Kevin Henry but he definitely got his wardrobe someplace else.

-Kirk

[Stuporman]

Understated crown bling on a simple and elegant Cochran D.
http://tiny.cc/Axmog

[s1m0n]

blingless....so sad

You have only yourself to blame for what follows:

I'm not sure the world ever needed the S&M flute.

[s1m0n]

Understated crown bling on a simple and elegant Cochran D.
http://tiny.cc/Axmog

Or the lamprey flute, for that matter:

[Casey Burns]

Life is a series of Eels.

[s1m0n]

Life is a series of Eels.

I'm still creeped out by it, tho. A lamprey boom hit the great lakes when I was a kid - one of the first invasive species to get a lift in a ship's bilge or in water carried as ballast. We'd see dead salmon on the Lake Ontario beaches, each with one or two lamprey punctures about the size of a nickel on their sides. Once in a while, we'd see one swimming in a pond or creek. Yuck.

[Steampacket]

Less is more as regards flutes. As to Michael's attire, well he is a former Golden Gloves champion so I guess he has the balls to wear whatever he likes and carry it off

[Nanohedron]

Hey, look what I found!!