I have too many Olwells. I think I need to sell one. Keyless D. Perfect condition. Blackwood with silver tuning slide and rings. Nicholson. Any offers over $1625?
~J
[ This Message was edited by: JessieK on 2002-12-09 16:49 ]
Jessie - I don’t suppose you’d consider selling me your Delrin Olwell?
Chris
Not right now, Chris. But maybe some day. Nah. Hee hee.
Doh.
(A) How many Olwells do you have?
(B) Is this a joke I don’t get?
Stuart
(A) I have 4 Olwell keyless flutes not counting all the bamboo ones.
(B) I don’t think so.
OK. My goodness.
What makes them different, if I may ask?
Stuart, who only owns one keyless Olwell.
That’s disgusting!
You too, Murphy.
Stuart…I have two blackwood ones. One has a two-piece body and one has a three-piece body. I am planning to sell the one with the two-piece body because the other one was my first Irish flute and it travels more easily. I have a boxwood one with no metal whatsoever, and I love that one - it smells like cookie dough! I also have a delrin one, the only one Pat ever made, and that’s a backup in case of global drying.
I got the one I want to sell on eBay. I was not intending to be the high bidder, just to drive the price up a bit. Oh well. It, like all Olwells, is amazing.
Jessie
edited for typo
[ This Message was edited by: JessieK on 2002-12-07 09:11 ]
Oh, OK! Thanks for the reply, Jessie. I was just curious.
Are they all the same model, though? Or are some Prattens and some Rudalls?
I guess I’m asking because I think your flute-obsessive-acquisition disorder is worse than mine. 4 Olwells. 
Stuart
They are all Nicholsons.
Jessie, what are the hole sizes for 2 and 5 on the flutes that you have. Every Nicholson I have seen seems to be different and am curious. I have a Prowse Nicholson 8 key (original) which seems to have smallish holes (ie holes 2&5 are both 8mm) I did get to see another recently that was a little bit younger than mine, about 120 out with the serial numbers and the holes 2&5 were massive by comparison… 11mm ?
Thanks
Colin
Colin, I’d be interested in the Prowse measures on your flute. I just this week sold a Prowse-Nicholson (photo is on the website) serial #3737. I can give you measures if you’d like. Also, are the rings on your Prowse reinforced with ivory? This seemed to be a Prowse thing that he began at Clementi and carried over to his own firm when he broke away.
4 Olwell Nicholson’s? That must be maybe 5% of all the Nicolson’s he’s ever made.
That’s an interesting question, G. I wonder if he’s numbered sequentially from the get-go.
My Olwell is #640 . . . implying that 6 flutes would be nearly 1% of all he’s made. So in all likelihood, assuming the usual serial-number scheme . . . 4 is more than 5% of the Nicholson’s he’s made.
Stuart
I believe pat numbers the flutes on the end of the head piece and, when you trade in a keyless body for a keyed body, you keep the head and barrel, no? Then that keyless body gets recirculated back to a different headpiece.
If so, then the number is without merit since it only indicates the age of the head not the rest of the flute.
That said, my own keyless Olwell is #450.
Since the subject has been brought up, could someone explain to me the numbering system for flutes.
I admit I don’t get it. Does #460 mean the 460th flute made?
Thanks in advance.
Garth
Fancy swapping it for a new blackwood 5 key sam murray? I could give you the difference in cash!
[ This Message was edited by: fionnbarra on 2002-12-09 08:33 ]
Interesting idea, fionnbarra, but no. Every Sam Murray flute I have seen in America has had a crack through the embouchure. I don’t trust them.
Colin, hole 2 is about 8mm and hole 5 is about 10mm.
~J
[ This Message was edited by: JessieK on 2002-12-09 10:35 ]