Chris Wilkes Flute on Ebay

Irish Flute
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**Eilam wrote:

  • For my third, I will take the head joint with the fancy rings… "
    what ~ and leave Tod with the back end
    i say, for your third, you will get to have the flute 4 months a year. -**


    Jon, better yet, you can have the cork and all of the Wilkes air that is filling the flute, sound fair to you, Eilam? … actually, I will sacrifice and take the whole thing for the first four months in order to do the cumbersome “break it in”, and for the next eight months will put in a lot of hard work to develop a time share schedule for the next year - But I guess Jessie may be the one to end up with this… couldn’t go to a nicer person, … well, maybe one… hehe

Tod

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Yes, let Jessie have it, she needs to build up the collection again.. :smiley:

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I’m quite impressed with the number of excellent flutes that the seller has put up for bid over the last few years.

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Hee hee. I don’t intend to build up a collection again. This flute, though, will, I think, be just what the doctor ordered.

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The seller is from Snohomish County. Are you playing coy with us?

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It is not me :laughing:
I was guessing the town not county…
I moved from Snohomish, the town USPS wise, over a year and a half ago to Arlington, also USPS wise.
I’ve just been wondering who im4home2 is! :confused:

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I swear I know, because the ID name is familiar to me, but I can’t for the life of me remember. Must be too much aluminum in my diet…


Loren (Mr. Memory Loss) B.

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It’s Winded.

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It’ll be interesting to see what this flute goes for. I’ve met two French flute players at Willie Week and Wilkes flutes are well liked in France. One of the players had a keyless with plain rings, whilst the other man who we’ve seen over the years plays a keyed Wilkes.

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It’s a little less than 9 hours until this auction ends. How am I supposed to get through the rest of the day?!?

I have a doctor’s appointment later today, but that will kill only a couple of hours including travel time. Geez!

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Exciting - you have to watch out for those last minute mad bids on e-bay. :boggle: The auction will finish around 1 am Swedish time - may the best woman/man/being win :slight_smile:

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Hmm, the starting price is high enough that I was thinking there wouldn’t be much of a bidding war, but I could certainly be wrong. It will certainly be interesting to see what the final price is.

Loren

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Probably a fair few snipes queued in Auctionstealer even now.

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May be, you think we’re going to see a keyless flute go for 3 grand? I wouldn’t have expected it but who knows, if G. Collins is out there ready to bid… :laughing:

I’ll wait for Brad to put his Wilkes Bb up for sale :wink:



Loren

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As far as I know, the most a keyless modern flute sold for was $2725. It was an Olwell blackwood Pratten, about 5 years ago on eBay.

When I first saw this Wilkes flute, I thought the starting price was too high to even think about bidding, but then I thought about how many flutes I used to have, and how one amazing flute is definitely worth two less amazing flutes. So I just hope this flute is as amazing as I am hoping. I played a Wilkes Pratten once and really loved it. And I sold too many flutes. I should have kept a couple.

Yes, I’m sure people will try to snipe this flute at the last second.

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You’re gonna have to wait a L O N G time for that, buddy! Although if someone offered me $1 million for it, I might consider it. But actually no, I don’t think I’d even sell it for that much. I’d much rather have the flute than the money. :wink:

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Heh heh, I figured as much. Well, now I guess we know what the market value for a Wilkes Bb is :laughing:


Loren

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So, Brad, we’re down to quibbling about the price.

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Greetings

I was wondering about the keyless wilkes embouchure hole.

It seems the metal headjoint lining is off-set from the headjoint and i’ve seen this on other wilkes flutes, is this common?

Just wondering, i’ve a wilkes keyless pratten in boxwood basically same flute, it’s a humdinger.

Good luck with the bids

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I think what you are seeing in the picture is a reflection of the left wall of the embouchure hole, not the silver lining.

Interestingly, on a keyed Wilkes that I had briefly and sold, there had been a huge crack through the embouchure, and the silver lining WAS sticking out a bit under the blowing edge. The buyer had the headjoint replaced with a new one.