couple nice affordable flutes I have on eBay.
an Eb flute/piccolo set in ebonite, very nice. Great player.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320456072331&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123
another is a Hawkes Superior Class flute in D, a nice entry-level antique 8key. Plays solid.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Hawkes-Son-8-key-Flute-for-Irish-Music_W0QQitemZ320456068100QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4a9cab8c04
questions, lemme know.
dave
kick up…and some additional photos added.
beaters for sure, but why not, right? good flutes get played!
fixed the title to avoid confusion
Is the Hawkes A=440? Just wanted to make that clear. Also how’s the tuning?
Looks like one I might spring for if the price doesn’t go through the roof.
yep, 440, 1/2" out
the tuning is thus:
D- 0
E- +5
F#- -5
G- 0
A- 0
B- -5
C- 0
D- 0
someone just got a great deal on the Eb flute/piccolo.
Yeah, and the Hawkes, too. Argggh.
The Hawkes is mine. How much more should I have paid to get an ordinary deal? 
i’d say, it was worth $1700 or more.
Damn! Thank you for the silver lining, global recession! 
Bah, lined globes are prone to cracking.
I agree Eilam, but times they are a changing…
I agree Eilam, but times they are a changing…
nah, it’s a fine entry level antique, kevin
not a window-breaker, but a hawkes nevertheless that’s been used a bunch. Must have been a cracker (and cranker) in its first year.
i love these beat up old ones. who wants to “noodle” with a Rudall (ha! a funny!) in the fear of “junking” it up?..and this one gives the owner the experience of futzing with stuff…pads, polishers, embouchure cuts…to where you find out what you like and don’t like.
Times a changing? nah.
It’s the name brands. A rudall still garners the top dollar as they should. So do Prattens.
the off-names…Wylde, Camp, Hawkes, Bilton, etc…still come up short. Too bad, too. They are very good flutes.
dm
A pipemaking friend of mine built a spare regulator (uillean pipes) in trade for an 8 key Hawkes and Reveire. Nice stick but the long F block seemed to preclude certain kinds of grip. Also its new owner is very anti-loud instruments - ever been around a really loud modern pipe chanter? It stings! 
So the H&R mostly stays in its box. I should badger him into loaning me that thing. He also built a chanter in trade for a Nach Meyer, making up for the killer deal on the Hawkes. A fully keyed chanter with windcap is about $1400 these days, back then (8 years?) more like $1200.
Jeremy Kammerer let me play his low serial number R&R on occasion before he sold it to you. Flatter foot than a detective in an old film noir! Also Jeremy’s repairs were pretty awful, but it was lovely to play once you knew what you were in for.
Looking forward to the Hawkes and Son. Now I have an international collection of these things - American, French, English, German, Viennese/Italian, plus a wooden Boehm. Sort of a lame version of what Rick Wilson’s got. They’re all fun to play though, very different in how they work, especially if you start futzing around with the keys and playing in the third octave.
Some cat tried to auction off a Krupse Reformflöte a few weeks ago for $1500 - tried to talk him down to $300. Those things are crazy, sometimes the keywork was more complicated than Boehm, or maybe even some of the Rudall Carte models.
Won’t perform surgery on the embochure! Might have the foot joint repaired though. The proper configuration is interlocked, it seems: H8964 Flute, Hawkes & Son, 28 Leicester Sq, London. (SB). - Powerhouse Museum Collection Pay a bit more and you get Boehm-ish:
Original 8-key Flute Prices"Excelsior Sonorous" “tops” “Superior” like mine! Here’s what I take to be an example of the Hawkes and Son baseline model, keys in blocks: Antique Large Hawkes & son rosewood Flute, very fine on eBay (end time 12-Nov-09 20:26:29 GMT). Really odd C key on the foot joint.