4 Keys Sam Murray flute for sale

Irish Flute
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Hello everybody. I’ve just discovered this forum and it looks great!! Fairplay!
I’m going to put my Sam Murray flute for sale on ebay next week. It’s a 2 years old blackwood D flute in mint condition. The 4 keys are (G#, C, Bb, long F). It has no cracks and it has just been serviced by Sam last week. It’s a powerful flute (a real beast!) and it has a great tone. I’m selling it because I’m waiting on an 8-key flute and, regretfully, I can’t afford to have both :sniffle: !!
If anyone wants to buy it straight away before I put it on ebay please get in touch - it’ll save me all the ebay hassle and it’ll save you a year waiting. I’m not much of a photographer but here you have some pics anyway. (I’ll try to take some better ones if anyone needs)

I’m looking for 1,700 euros and I accept Paypal.
Cheers
All the best

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1700 euros for a four key Sam Murray flute? Are the keys that expensive? Making the flute double the price of a Murray keyless? :boggle:

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1700 euro seems like a great price to me. This won’t last long.

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Sure, keys are expensive, and silver cost is up, and extra work for turning the block mounts. Hammy Hamilton’s price list, for instance, has a keyless for 850 Euros, a 4-key for 2200 Euros, a 6-key for 2875 Euros.

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Does Sam M make prattens? I’ve heard only of
rudall-style flutes so far.

The seller says this
flute is ‘a real beast.’

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You should perhaps attempt to make a keyed flute sometime, only then, I think, will you appreciate the value.


Loren

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Just about any flute is a beast in the right hands!!!

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i’m going to have a new boxwood 6 key for 1725 Euro.

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Steampacket wrote :

1700 euros for a four key Sam Murray flute? Are the keys that expensive? Making the flute double the price of a Murray keyless? boggle

I reckon you have a keyless Wilkes, Steampacket, how much do you think you 'd have to pay for a Wilkes 4-key?

Claudine wrote :

i’m going to have a new boxwood 6 key for 1725 Euro

If it’s a Murray, Claudine, it’s a good bargain indeed :stuck_out_tongue:

I find 1700 euros a really fair price for Murray 4-key.
Pierre

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it is a Murray, yes. It wouldn’t make sense to compare pears and apples, would it? :laughing:

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Hmm - I really didn’t realise that keys were that expensive. I have a keyless Murray incoming for 840 euros. Fair enough then, 1700 euros + no waiting time - a fair price for someone who needs keys on their flute :slight_smile:

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Claudine wrote :

t is a Murray, yes. It wouldn’t make sense to compare pears and apples, would it? lol

Nice price for a Murray. :slight_smile: How long the wait?

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I placed the order in august 2007. So if I really get it in 3 weeks, that would be 11 months.

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Hi Claudine,
how did you contact Sam Murray then. Via phone, email, by mail or in person?

Cheers, Moritz

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i wrote him an email. later i called him on the phone sometimes.
He had posted his contact details last year:

http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=49904&highlight=

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He’s quick to respond. I got a keyless @ €775 in three months last year

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that’s really quick. but maybe you have an advantage as you are living quite close to him and could probably ask him in person, instead of being a faceless customer who can only place an order by phone or email.

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No, I don’t think so, a keyless is quick and easy, the bread and butter of all flutemakers. Several people I have spoken to since got them even quicker after I got mine. I did collect it in person once it was done.

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[Does Sam M make prattens? I’ve heard only of rudall-style flutes so far.]

Hi Jim,

About 8 months ago I contacted Emer Mayock regarding what type of flute she was playing on a certain tune (I don’t remember which one at the moment but I think it was on her “Playground” album) I liked the power and the “Honk” she was getting out of the flute she was playing. She wrote me back and indicated that she was playing a Sam Murray. So at that point I contacted Sam regarding his different models. He indicated that he doesn’t make a Pratten flute, only a Rudall style.

The tag of a “Beast” may be accurate in the right hands.

All the best,
-Clay

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WOOF!

Hi, Clay!Thanks for the info.