Browsing around the net I see rosewood and cocus wood - tunable three section - in a wooden lined case at $170 a pop made by Mid East.
Anyone out there tried these?
Thanks
Havn’t tried those particular ones…but you might as well buy a lottery ticket…odds are about the same…
Cheap (wooden) Irish flutes = Crappy irish flutes. Well, in general anyway. Don’t even consider that kindling you’re looking at on ebay, it probably wouldn’t even burn well.
Loren
would be fun to burn them though!
Oil first…then fit long tapered candle…Yup!
Sounds like a plan !
My first GHB practice chanter was a Mid-East model. My friends and I had a good deal of fun when we tossed it from the “Mile High Bridge” on Grandfather Mountain after I upgraded to a “real” chanter.
I have the “cocus wood” one. argh 
For the same price, I could’ve gotten a nice low d.
Hurl-inducing.
You couls spend twice that and get a very nice M&E Delrin Flute, or you could save about $100 and get a Tipple Flute.
I bought one of those cheap flutes off of ebay a couple of months ago (a Pakistani model I think). Classifying it as a musical instrument was generous, to say the least. It was more like fancy-looking kindling. It had a 7 day guarantee, and you’d better believe it was in the mail the day after I got it.
Thanks for the suggestion! even though I had some reservations about such a thing. I thought about the other options, but to be brutal about this 1 I make PVC flutes in about an hour and 2 for the price of an M&E or Seery I can buy a lathe. To me thats where the fun really starts … lol.
Happy tootling
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for the price of an M&E or Seery I can buy a lathe. To me thats where the fun really starts … lol.
Yes.
A mini-lathe lets you make 3- or 4-piece flutes. Get bore and hole sizes and placements from Terry McG’s web site. Make wooden reamers from oak dowels and hacksaw blades from a home improvement center. Drills, drill press, Dremel, scroll chuck, …
So for the price of one or two good flutes you can get the equipment to make lots of them.
Then you need a workshop, dust collector, every hand tool known to God or human …
But it’s all good. If it replaces Flute Obsessive Acquisition Disorder, it may even not contribute much to your bankruptcy. Much. And it’s good fun.
Although I have a better flute, I play the ones I made.
– Don Varvel
Michael sells off slight seconds on eBay…
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/M-E-Flutes_W0QQssPageNameZviQ3asibQ3astoreviewQQtZkm
What???
You use a mini lathe to do wood turning ??? Duh its no wonder you are nearly spent out! Didn’t you ever hear of ‘serving time’ to a carpenter/shipbuilder/craftsman?
But it ain’t bout the money … heh, its about personal satisfaction!
I got a Pakistani from eBay (only $20) cheap for a flute but expensive for kindling - which is what it was. This “flute” did not even play a scale, of course I’m picky - I want ALL of the intervals to be right.
I then bought the Tipple with the wedge for about $80 shipped and have been extremely happy with it!
I find it is best to be able to see what you are trying to make. I love my M&E and have kind of out grown my Tipples.
OK, it’s the end of a workday on Friday, but that sounds positively risque!
They are jsut so different from a Wooden Conical Flute.
Yes…but they’re good, inexpensive, available in many keys and two flavors (w/ and w/out the wedge).
Gotta luv 'em!