Every time I pick up a different whistle I have difficulty adjusting to the different requirements for air, finger placement, etc. And I’m getting the opposite of WHOA. I want to pare it down to my Copeland and some old Generations. Oh, and my car needs a new radiator.
So please help me clean out the instrument locker (which is a post-office tub).
• THIN WEASEL “A” \ PVC \ tuneable $70.
• SWEETHEART “C” \ rosewood \ new style $75.
• SUSATO “D” \ ABS \ black \ tuneable \ regular bore $18.
• SUSATO “D” \ ABS \ white \ non-tuneable \ regular bore $10.
• SWEETONE “D” \ green $5.
• SWEETONE “D” \ black $5.
• ACORN “D” green $5.
• OLD GENERATION “D” brass body \ worn finish \ no mouthpiece $5.
• OLD GENERATION “D” nickel body \ no mouthpiece $5.
• OLD GENERATION “F” nickel body \ no mouthpiece $5.
• Bb FIFE \ maple \ pinned brass ends on both sides $15.
• ANGEL Renaissance Alto recorder \ ABS \ black \ three piece \ two plastic end-caps \ brass rings \ curved windway \ flared bell \ string and wood-ring neck hanger \ Renaissance styling, but standard baroque fingering \ double holes for G and F \ perfect for Renn Fests \ case $40.
• ANGEL Renaissance Soprano recorder \ black / two-piece \ brass ring \ string and wood-ring neck hanger \ Renaissance styling, but standard baroque fingering \ double holes for D and C \ perfect for Renn Fests \ case \ this is not the $5 Angel you see in music stores $20.
• MEYER wood flute \ African blackwood \ 3 pieces with tuning slide \ low C#. C, and B \ circa 1890-1910 \ original case $300.
• PFAPF (PHILADELPHIA) wood flute \ 2 pieces with tuning slide \ two keys missing and sealed with beeswax \ case $300.
• GEMEINHART M35 silver-plated three-piece flute with case $150.
I’ll dicker, especially if you take several items! Prices are “or best offer”. Might trade for O’Riordan or similar. Try me. Make an offer. What’s to lose?
I’ll post on C&F what’s been taken.
elliott@jewishmail.zzn.com
573-449-7747
Hi Elliot,
Here’s a free bump. Will you tell us more about
the flutes, eg. what wood they’re made of? etc.
Also you might post that info on the
flute board, if you haven’t already.
I’m hearing lots of good reviews of you
and Charlie Poole at least weekend’s rendezvous.
Best, Jim
Thanks, Jim, but Nancy Lippencott deserves equal credit for her hammered dulcimer and mandolin playing.
Let’s see what happens here before I deal with the snobs on the Flute Forum.
I haven’t a clue how to take a digital picture, but a guy promised me the loan of his equipment and expertise next week.
How about a verbal picture? The Meyer is 28" inches long, African blackwood, ten keys. It says “NACH H. F. Meyer Hanover” on the barrel. Four-piece. Metal-lined headjoint with a tuning slide. Oval blowing hole. Weighs about 20 ounces, but evenly balanced. The cork is attached to a wooden screw for precise placement. It’s louder than most (in my experience). This thing is thicker than any other flute I know - lots of wood! The string joints were replaced with cork joints. It comes in the original case. Fairly pure tone, not chiffy, but capable of that Irish “buzz” if you have the chops to do it. (I don’t.) Original case.
One flaw: the joint between the top three and the bottom three holes tends to wobble. I wrap the cork with paper. It would take a woodwind repairer to fix it right. It doesn’t bother ME, but you need to know it.
The Pfapf is a dark red almost black-colored wood. Smaller than the Meyer – 25.5". Very light in weight – 11 ozs. More classical tone quality than the Meyer. Slight chiff. Doesn’t take much air. Missing a key or two, and filled in with beeswax. Three pieces, so all six holes are on one piece. Brass-lined headjoint. Oval hole. Seven keys, originally, now five – Bb, G#, Eb, low C#, low C.
Till (if?) I can get these photographed, I hope that helps.
#1 - Flute photos now available. I can e-mail them or someone can tell me how to get them on here. Or both.
#2 - I thought for sure someone would JUMP at a PVC Water Weasel “A” that was tuneable.