I have a three piece Healy with silver rings and a slide; would anyone like to trade a Mopane Burns for it?
Any other ideas?
Matt
A blackwood Burns would be nice too and closer to the value. 
Doc
What do these sound llike, the Healys?
I believe I’ve heard it said that they
are ‘powerful’.
They’re sure “powerful” when Skip’s playing one!
His track on WFO-1 is amazing.
Doc
The major difference between my Healy and my Olwell is, I think, due to the tuning slide (at least that’s what I’ve convinced myself). It has a mellower tone, but it still barks.
If it were a flavor, I’d say it was nutty.
M
They sound pretty much like what the player sounds like…
Loren
So are you calling somebody nutty, Loren?
Cheers,
Aaron
Nah, I just like to needle Jim about all his questions 
It’s become a sort of hobby for me 
And on the serious side, I really do believe that better players tend to “neutralize” the differences in tone, between flutes. To a large extent anyway.
Loren
Very solidly built flutes. I love the metal tenons. The one i played was very good, with a little quirky intonation (i.e. “personality”).
I’m interested in something for the street,
which means, loud. I suspect that sheer volume is
perhaps the feature of flutes where Loren’s
observation, which I tend to agree with,
is least applicable.
Just renewed my street-musician’s license,
by the way, which cost 25 dollars, but I managed
to eat at least five bucks worth of peppermint
candy they had in a jar at the Street Dept,
while I waited.
Revenge is sweet!
Street musicians liscense?!
Is there some kind of test for that? 
Doc
Nah, they just want 25 bucks.
Also you have to find the Street Department.
Well, I just earned 20 dollars in
an hour. Sweetheart G flute, rosewood.
Try a piccolo. No, really, I would like to know how you do.
As for the poster’s question. I would sell the flute and buy a Burns. You will make money, and not have a used flute.
You know Jim he may have a point there. A fife would certainly be powerful enough and they’re fun to play.
I had a couple of Healy fifes once upon a time…very cool.
Also, Olwell makes bamboo flutes/fifes in F,G, A, and hi C. I have all but the C and find them plenty loud (though not as loud as the Healys which were just almost too loud for indoors).
Doc
You know Jim he may have a point there…
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Of course here I make the sexist assumption that I.D.10-T is a “he”.
My sincerest apologies if she isn’t.
Doc
I would think a Seery is a perfect street flute. Loud and water-resistant.
Yeah Jim, I thought you had a Seery. Personally (in the plastic flute realm) I like the M&E R&R better than the Seery. Not that it’s a better flute just more suited to my personal tastes. That Delrin makes them heavy boogers though.
Doc
the seery is flat when it’s cold, at least at the
top of the second octave and the bottom of
the third, which is where I often play on
the street because it carries. High is good,
streetwise.
The seery is like two different instruments,
one when it’s cold, and another much, much
better one when it’s warm.
The Sweetheart G rosewood plays very well,
especially when there’s a lot of automobile
traffic to cut through. (It’s hard for me to go
higher because I have trouble with my elbows.)
Otherwise the Copley
D is what I play–it’s louder than the Seery,
it’s in tune, and it sounds very good.
But it’s a little scary taking something like
that to the street…
Hmmm, i’ve never had a Seery. My plastic flutes are PVC (Tipple and M&E). They don’t seem to be much affected by temperature, but they’re not as loud as the Seery.
I’ve been playing with a Seery for more then a week now.
I can’t say that I know it as well as my M&E, but the M&E has bigger embouchure, and is louder, also more responsive, both octaves are more lively on the M&E, the Seery feels a bit dead to me, which is odd because just by holding the two flutes, you would think it the other way around, the Seery feels nice and elegant, the rings and slide feel and look like a $1200 flute, while the M&E feels like a rod before it was machined to be a flute.
I like both flutes, but so far, the M&E works much better for me.