Flutes for Sale:

Hamilton from late 80’s has, silver tuning slide, seperate R & L hand joint, blackwood with silver rings. Tune-up in '07. $900 + shipping/insurance.
Meacham and Pond, baroque, boxwood with 1-key, ivory rings, 4/08 restored by Kara Lochridge- new head cork, re-pad key, rewrap tenons, fill and wrap 2 cracks in head joint, cleaned and oiled. Made between 1828-1832. $600+ shipping and insurance.
Edward Baack baroque, cocus with 1-key, silver rings, 1/08 restored by Kara Lochridge-new head cork, re-pad key, rewrap tenons, repair cracks (hard to see after repair). $750+ shipping and insurance.
Tony Dixon 3-piece polymer, I,ve played it twice. $250+ shipping and insurance.
Prices on Meacham and Pond and Baack are based on estimates by Kara.
I thought I would post these here before I put them on e-bay. I can send pictures and more info.
Cheers:)

What pitch are the baroque flutes in? And the second one, do you know when that was made?

Just need to end this with some good news, do you all know that soon we will once again be able to enjoy Rosebank
whisky? :party:

Both of the baroque flute appear to be in D at 440 and Eb at 415 based on my tuner. When Baack was is business is somewhat of a mystery to me. According to Terry McGee has was listed as a flute maker in NY between 1864 and 1872. Jerry Schurr he was producing and exhibiting woodwinds in the 1850’s and feel on hard times in mid 1870’s, he used Langwill for his source. Another on line source lists a cocuswood Baack they dated 1840’s. That’s why I didn’t want to put a date on the Baack. The Meacham (actually Meachams- John and Horace) and Pond was easier as they were partners between 1828-32. Pond went on to partner with Firth and Hall and the Meachams branched out into piano’s with Horace’s son Roswell (for what it is worth).
Cheers:)

Yeah, I do love my Firth, Pond & Co. more than any other material thing in this world, but I didn’t know it was common to make Baroque style flutes this late into the romantic era. That explains how they could be at A=440, but was there really a market for such things in the mid 19th century? Could that have been as a sort of budget option for the 8-key flutes?

whisky :wink:

Yeah, calling them Baroque flutes is a little misleading since 1-keys were made so late (but it’s clear and a lot more compact than “Romantic flute with one key that cross-fingers well”). But as keys started being added, many makers still kept a similar bore and hole pattern to the earlier flutes, meaning that their flutes still cross-fingered well. So they still offered 1-keys, often made from imperfect wood and with brass keys, as inexpensive options relative to their 6- or 8-keys with slides and silver keys. I’m a little surprised by the one from cocus with silver rings and key – that doesn’t sound like it was an inexpensive flute at birth.