Economic Recovery Flute Sale!

Irish Flute
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Road to Economic Recovery Flute Sale:

I devised this plan for economic recovery with Alan Greenspan (not!). The idea is to rejuvenate the flute economy. How it works is you buy my flutes and then I buy someone else’s flutes, who in turn buys another’s flutes… There by keeping the money circulating within the fluting community and allowing us all to prosper. So come on now let’s get this economic recovery ball rolling. Just buy my flutes…. :smiley:

Offered for your consideration are the following (listed bottom to top):

  1. Mollenhauer Boxwood 6-key. This flute heralds from the Romantic flute period (early 1800’s) and is made in the classical Viennese style. See Rick Wilson’s Old Flutes website: http://www.oldflutes.com/viennese.htm Notable are the squarish embouchure and the Tromlitz lever (link of long F to the short F), I personally find the “outward” facing short F to be more comfortable. In fact, I’ve held onto this flute for quite some time, simply because I find the keywork to be the most comfortable that I’ve yet encountered. It is best to think of this flute as a keyed “Improved Baroque” flute. The tone is extremely sweet and the intonation is pretty good for an antique. The flute is pitched a bit high at about A=445, but I’m able to lip it down to 440. TRADED!

  2. Mark Hoza Cooktown Ironwood flute in F. This is one powerful little flute! The head has Hoza’s copy of Robert Bigio’s stopper and crown assembly, plus an embouchure cut-away and lip recess. These combine to make this flute exceptionally comfortable and easy to play. I’ld like $300 for this one.

  3. Sweetheart Laminated Wood Resonance flute. This flute is an exceptional player, among the easiest I’ve ever played. The intonation is very very good, the response is excellent, plus the bottom D is loud and strong! It is a great flute to do ornaments, octave jumps and fast finger work with. It even makes my playing sound articulate! Plus with the laminated wood (No Worries!) it can be left out assembled and ready to play. TRADED!

Trades and Offers will be considered. Please contact me via Email or PM.

Thanks for looking!

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The flute is pitched a bit > high > at about A=435, but I’m able to lip it down to 440

:confused: :confused: :confused:

440 is higher than 435… Did you mean 445 (unlikely given the flute’s provenance) or that it is flat and you lip it up?

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Sent you an email.

Dana

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Hey Jem,

Your right! My Bad! :blush:

The pitch is high and I’ve made corrections.

You are also correct about period pitch. But this one is high, there is a simular flute in the Dayton Miller collection that is listed as being in the key of Eb. Here: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?dcm:4:./temp/~ammem_jmyF::

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Pretty little flute in that DCM link - and stylistically the brother of yours. However, at 51cm total length it is assuredly a Band Flute “in F” in our terminology - and I know for a fact that DCM use the “classical” C based (confusing to us - has been much discussed…) terminology, so our “F Flute” is their “Eb”, our “Eb” is their “Db/C#” and our “D” is their “C”.

Yours probably has an overall length c60cm?

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Hey Jem,

DCM doesn’t define how they measure the length of their flutes.

My flute has a length of ~59 cm without the cap, but is ~51.5 cm from the center of the embouchure to the bottom of the foot.

The Hoza F has a full body length of ~50.5 cm, but has a rather large bore.

All the Best!

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They do if you look far enough! - dcm conventions:-
"9. Measurement. All of the instruments have been remeasured and the dimensions have been revised for many of the specimens. Like the checklist, such measurements involve only overall dimensions for the purposes of positive identification in conformity with standard museum practice. " (My italics.)

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Hey Jem,

Thanks! :slight_smile: I had looked for that information (unsuccessfully) before.

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I can attest to the sweetness of the old Mollenhauer flute. If I could only figure out all those damn keys I never would have sold it. It’s light as a feather, too, being both small-bored and thin-walled.

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:astonished: Well it looks like our Flute Economy is reduced to a Barter System! :boggle:

:slight_smile: Or is it that Wooden Flutes are the New Currency? :smiley:

The Hoza F is still up for grabs!