I’m selling my Dave Williams, Praten style, blackwood, with 5 silver keys (hi C, Bb, G#, short and long F naturals), Irish flute. Made in the late 1980’s. Big sound, fantastic tone, with a strong stable low D. Excellent condition. I lost a finger so can’t play it anymore. A great flute for an advanced or intermediate player. With a strong embouchure the tone is fantastic. But an intermediate player could “grow” into it by developing the embouchure. It is listed on the “the Greater San Francisco Bay Area” Craig’s list with pictures and price.
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Sorry to hear that, but (if you don’t mind me asking) which finger have you lost and have you considered the possibility of adaptations to this or another (maybe custom-built) flute to make it playable?
@kowanaman: Can’t find your listing on SFBay Craigslist. Please post a link. Thanks.
Here it is.
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/msg/3221528117.html
Very reasonable price for such a flute 1.750 USD - 1.410 euros - 1.111 sterling 
Head’s up by the way - Rudall Carte 7049 is back on the London Craig’s List once more 
Can’t see the pictures though…
Have you flagged it to them?
EDIT: suggest we/mods delete these now irrelevant-to-this-thread posts - I have bumped the previous scam warning thread.
Aye, flagged.
Sorry folks, I’m still trying to figure out this internet selling buisness. I’ve posted pictures on Craig’s List but they don’t seem to be on there. I’ll get to the bottom of this yet!
@Peter Duggan, looks like you might be a 9 fingered whistler/fluter yourself. I have made the adaptations to play flute and whistle. I lost my left forefinger which is the top hole of the flute/whistle. I’ve plugged up the first hole and put it on the backside of the flute/whistle and now my thumb has taken over for the lost finger. On the flute, since the thumb is the support, I’ve had to construct a crutch to hold the flute up when I play (uncover) that thumb hole.
Well I’ve posted 3 pictures, one with the 3 sections broken down, one with flute all together in one piece and a third of the gig bag. I only see the one picture of the 3 separate pieces, but I have to run now so will look into this later.
I saw three pictures - but only on Safari. No pictures came through on Firefox.
it will come up in Firefox if you switch to the IE rendering engine (IE Tab+ addon)
Yes, I am (born like that, though not actually whistling/fluting at the time!).
I have made the adaptations to play flute and whistle. I lost my left forefinger which is the top hole of the flute/whistle. I’ve plugged up the first hole and put it on the backside of the flute/whistle and now my thumb has taken over for the lost finger. On the flute, since the thumb is the support, I’ve had to construct a crutch to hold the flute up when I play (uncover) that thumb hole.
Sure you know your own hands best when I’m all too aware that every case like this is unique, but still wondering whether you’d considered using your pinkie as L3 and trying to ‘reeducate’ L2 and 3 as L1 and 2?
So (FWIW) my L2 is neither normal middle nor ring finger, but a twisted amalgam (got two knuckles!) overlapping my pinkie (aka L3) when laid flat and allowing little sideways separation from the pinkie. Still used to play flutes with inline holes, but struggled increasingly (through age and/or simply failing to think it through?) with the stretch and now have two custom bodies (D and Eb) from Dave Copley with big offsets on L3 (the D also has a slightly closer spacing) and C nat thumb holes (also custom offset). Now working with Dave on a keyed flute which should hopefully become a reality by the end of the year, and also moving towards offset L3s on my low whistles (not as instantly stressful inline as flutes, but still much better offset).
Not wanting to clutter up your ‘for sale’ thread with any more of this just now, but please (same goes for anyone!) just PM, email, start a new thread or whatever if you’re interested in discussing potentially common issues.