Hi everyone, sa mentionned in this post’s title, I don’t know much about Irish flutes, i’m only a rookie whistle player that felt in love with Irish music. i’m pretty poor right now, and i’m searching for a cheap flute on Ebay. So I found this one :
It’s used, and damaged. My question is, Is it repairable, and is it a good flute for a begginer. Is 3 or 4 pounds and shipping costs a waste? Thanks
Hi,
Welcome to the site.
As far as the above mentioned flute, I would say no, this is not the flute for you. I doubt the flute is repairable, or worth repairing.
You might want to get a good beginner flute, like a Tipple or Dixon instead of ending up with some scrap wood…
Good luck! 
I saw this earlier today too.
I’d say there are a fair many chairs missing legs in County Roscommon.
I think you are making a good call Jon.
In case the lads above did not make it clear enough: if this flute were in perfect condition, I would strongly (only more strongly than that) recommend against it.
To make this even clearer, this is a Ganley flute. The worst ones I ever tried (and in 12 years of practice, I tried a lot of bad instruments).
Hope my post is not inappropriate. If it is, please remove it.
A wealthy woman I know went to Ireland a few years back and bought a Ganley flute for about £600 (!). The flute was black-- but it was painted black, not blackwood. The keys were cut from aluminun sheet. It was not playable. It was a total loss.
If there is an upside to this, it is that she could easily afford it and the money probably went back into the Irish economy.
Run away!
Doc
If you are looking for a reliable playable starter flute, I suggest emailing David and Nina Shorey at http://antiqueflutes.com/ and asking if they have a cheap one.
-Joel
The original poster asked after “Irish” flutes, so I’m presuming the quest was for simple-system conical bore instruments, which the Shoreys appear not to deal in as best as I can tell: all the ones I checked on were, although definitely vintage, of modern systems (Boehm, Radcliff), so felixbm might not have those at all in mind, although I thought the prices were quite nice for what they were. You could shell out 14K easily for a well-made modern-day wooden Boehm flute, for example!
That being said, here’s something you don’t see every day in a wood flute with a B foot (and sorry about the pic size: it was smaller on the website in question. Dunno how that happens):
The body is ONE PIECE. Holy buckets.
Drool.
The Shoreys do deal extensively in simple-system flutes; there are quite a few in their catalog and they’ll be at Boxwood this summer talking about them.
gotta love those mysteries 
They live near by, just 30 minutes away! I should go visit them. 
Culver City! 
Chas, I stand corrected. Thanks.
Showoff. How’d you do that?
[quote=“Denny”]…and if you can not find a resonable sized picture…
note: the width and height will need some fussing with.[/quote]
Except he had entered width=“250” and height=“800” for this photo.
Now if only I could find a way to rotate images 90 degrees.
Note: “Disable HTML in this post” used to show code.
So, does this mean that I could do the same thing in the quote or edit function by just changing the numbers, then?
And all I’m getting is a red X here.
It works just on images to my knowledge. Note that the section that says “link to picture” needs a URL.
In this case the URL would be the photo you wanted to display.
http://www.antiqueflutes.com/web%20photos%20and%20text/759.full.jpg
so the final code would look like this
This is what it looks like
Thank you! Most cool.
Nano, Nano, Nano…so you’ve forgotten how to use the quote button…'tis sad, it is. 