I’m selling my first wooden flute. It served me well the first couple years and now I’m upgrading. Excellent for someone who wants to try out a wooden flute, with minimal expense. It’s blackwood with metal rings (nickel?) Has a lined head and tuning slide, one piece body and foot joint. Pretty much standard design. Has a couple of hairline cracks where the tuning slide connects to the body joint(at first glance you wouldn’t notice them) which have been there since I got it. I repaired them and they haven’t gotten worse since. The lined head has faired better and seems impervious to cracks.
The price is $175 which includes shipping in the US.
If you’d like to hear it, there are several recordings of me on clips n snips/tin whistle tunes site:
I didn’t put the maker because I don’t know it. The story from my friend who bought it, is he got it at a shop in Ireland, and while it had a decent long bore body, the embouchoure was cut pretty lousy, so he took to ralph sweet, who redrilled it to his standards. So I guess you could say its a Ralph Sweet head with a long bore body(sorta)
NOTE: So Dale doesn’t blow an artery, please email me with any other questions.
I am interested in purchasing a wooden flute and have a few questions. How long have you owned the flute, were the cracks professionally repaired, does the instrument play in tune, and does it come with a case?
I’ve had the flute for almost two years, and yes it comes with a hard case.
It plays very well in tune for the first octave and second octave up to the high b, above that its fairly hard to get an in tune note out of it(I’ve never played any tunes that required you to go that high)
The crack was sealed with super glue and sanded, which is all you can do when they are this minor(they’re hair-line cracks not full run splits)
Email me for pictures of the flute(and the cracks if you like)
Like I said this is a pretty decent flute if you want something to get started with for a low price, if you want a more polished woodenflute you’ll have to spend twice the money.
