Two Boehms - one silver, one nickel
Alto flute
Variety of folk flutes made of various materials in various keys
1882 Pratten-style eight-key
Early Casey Burns Mountain Mohagany keyless
Casey Burns blackwood keyless with lined head.
Currently own:
Casey Burns small-handed Folk Flute.
Gemeinhardt open-holed, M3 with solid silver head and silver-plated nickel eslewhere, C-foot.
Sweetheart “Cloos” Reproduction military fife in Bb in rosewood.
Lets see…
3- Fentum 8 key in Cocuswood
1- Hastrick 8 key in Cocuswood
1- Blackman 8 key in Cocuswood
1- Clementi 8 key in Ebony
1- Butler 6 key in Ebony
1- H.Y. Potter 6 key Cocuswood
1- William Hall 8 key Cocuswood
1- William Hall 6 key Cocuswood
1- D’Almaine 8 key in Boxwood
1- Gerock & Wolf 8 key in Ebony
1- Original Meyers 11 key in Madagascar Rosewood
1- Lyon & Healy 11 key in Rosewood
1- William Henry Potter 6 key Boxwood
1- Wallis 8 key in Cocuswood
1- Firth, Hall & Pond 4 key in Boxwood
1- Non-branded 8 key Cocuswood
1- Non-branded 4 key in stained Boxwood
1- Boosey Bb 6 key in Cocuswood
That is all I can think of at the moment…
No flutes on order, but I have some orders…
Geez, my dream flute would be a nice large holed Rudall & Rose!
00-key Jon C. pratten Derlin
08-key LeCompte et Cie Paris (1860s?) stained Cocus/Ivory
11-key Nach Meyer ebony
08-key Nemo (Czech I think) ebony
08-key Nemo (midsize holes) ebony
Tipple 3-piece D w/wedge
Geert Jacobs F porcelain w/brass ferrules
Dizi in A
Shakuhachi Nemo (really nice nobby foot)
Boston Wonder Boehmn Nickel 1912 (its odd)
Bucher Boehmn( I have no idea how old..total beater flute)
Gemeinhert 2SH Boehmn (nice player for what I do with it)
About 20 PVC flutes of my own make in various hole configs/keys/lip plate.
Many with a reversed engineered wedge from Doug’s reversed engineered Fajardo Wegde (thanx Doug! )
On order:
A keyed R&C from Jon… when ever I decide to actually ask him for one… and he agrees to make it.
Dream flute:
A particular one that Jon C. owns… he knows which one.
A Boosey Eb
A cherry R.S. Pratten
A well loved large holed R&R.
Don’t talk to me about dreams…I’ve written a few of my best songs when I’ve eaten cheese and had odd dreams! Once, I even dreamed what key the new song was in, where the capo was on my guitar, and what accompaniment I played on flute. (I now sleep with a pen and paper on my bedside cabinet!..just incase.)
-Flute I have: Casey Burns blackwood with silver rings & tuning slide, slight hole offsets.
-None on order
-Dream Flute: Rudall-style, undecided on maker, keys, or hole size. Prefer blackwoood. May never decide as its a dream instrument.
-I live near a noisy dog day care and might want an ultrasonic key installed to hush’em on occasion. Otherwise I kind of enjoy their garrolous barkishness.
My dream flute(in regards to Irish flute, don’t get me started on bansuri or quena) I more or less own… a 6 key Hawkes copy by Paddy Ward. Debating on getting another footjoint made, so it would be an 8 key…just can’t figure out if the 1k is worth it just to get a low C. I do sort of have another dream flute…an 8 key Grinter or McGee in Bb.
-Dixon polymer flute
-Gemeinhardt w/solid silver headjoing and B foot
-Pakastani flute that looks really cool but serves no purpose but to look really cool. Actually it doesn’t really look that cool.
-Hariprasad Chaurasia Bansuri made by Jeff Whittier
-Tipple D (now en route to California)
Dream Flute:
-Six Key Olwell in Blackwood
-Fujara (if you don’t know what a Fujara is, click here