Antique primitive Musical Flute on eBay...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ANTIQUE-PRIMITIVE-MUSICAL-FLUTE-IVORY-WOOD-METAL-EARLY_W0QQitemZ140084506983QQihZ004QQcategoryZ1217QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Have you ever seen such a strange flute? :astonished:


:stuck_out_tongue:

What do you get when you cross a clarinet mouth piece with a flute headjoint?

Looks like an ivory flute head on one end and a clarinet head on the other, just stuck together. Musically it’s worth diddly.

Rubbish.

This is the famous Clarinetoflute duck call as used by thrify New Englanders !

:astonished:

I see! :wink:

I don’t know which scares me more…that people try to combine bits and pieces to chimeras like that or that people are really bidding on it.

I like the Q and A listed on there:

Q: This is an old ivory headjoint and barrel from a flute and an old clarinet mouthpiece. The two are not meant to go together.
A: I just put them together as what was found in the box. Thank you for your information. I always enjoy learning more about what I list. John and Lucy

Translated: I have no f’n clue, and don’t care if I can fleece some idiot out of $30.

John

I’m still holding out for another chance on one of those human bone flutes.

OMG
Someone’s actually bidding $31 for this??
:astonished:

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Unbelievable.

Goes to show you George Carlin was right.
"If you nail two things togehter that have never been nailed together before…
Some schmuck will buy from ya!
“Hey, I’ll give ya a dollar-and-a-half for that!”

…In this case, 31 dollars! Crimey! I need to empty my closet and start attaching things!
A boot and one ear muff…what do you think? $10?

With or without the laces? Any cracks in the sole? What kind of fur in the muff? You’re leaving out a lot of important information here…

John

I wonder if it was maybe someone who wanted to make something out of the ivory. Might’ve gone for $40 if a quarter of the ivory wasn’t missing. :wink:

i suspect you could use it to “fill” old ivory cracks. I friend of mine does that beautifully on old solid-ivory flutes.

but stillll…what else could you use it for? carving little buddhas??

:laughing: