I got my fins on a recent Copley Boegli blackwood six key. It’s really a great flute. The workmanship is impeccable, the physical aesthetics fine, the intonation spot on, the sound strong and beautiful. The keys are beautiful and work well, the finger hole spacing is easy enough. I’ve been playing flute for decades, I do think this flute is remarkable.
I’ve had a delrin 8 key that is simply outstanding. I’ve had it about 4 years.
Eric
My Copley six key in blackwood and silver saved me from forever quitting playing the flute. It was actually Eric (Jayhawk) that put me onto looking for a Copley and I moved forward with connecting with Dave. After getting on the list, he actually had a 2013 come back home to the shop when the owner decided to return to silver flute. I have been nothing but 100% delighted with it. Everyone who’s played it has found it excellent as well. Good on ya!
The website says these flutes are significantly influenced by Hawkes’s design. I wonder what that influence is. The flute doesn’t sound rudally or pratteny (forgive me), not particularly a combination of the two but something else and I wonder if that’s Hawkes.
That’s an interesting question Jim. Never having played an original Hawkes…I have no idea. I like how it sounds, but I don’t find it that different in sound from my Henry Wylde flute. Unless a flute has really small holes, I tend to sound like me and my wife can’t tell the flutes apart. I can tell a difference, but listeners can’t.
Eric
A conversation between myself and Dave Copley once yielded that his design likely leans more toward the Pratten on bore profile, and when compared to my Ormiston “R&R” style flute, I would agree.
That’s truly interesting…and it makes sense now that I think of it.
Eric