If anyone is looking for a great C flute I have just the ticket. It’s a Copley with 6 keys, in blackwood, with additional blocks on the foot should someone want to add the Bb, and B keys. The flute is basically brand new, and I’ll throw in one of those nice Cavallaro flute rolls, I am asking $2,365 for it.
What a handsome flute; good luck! If I wasn’t in up to my neck on a new pipe chanter I’d be sore tempted … especially in light of how wonderful all that C tuning sounds on Kevin Crawford and Cillian Vallely’s new CD!
I played a lovely keyless C David made a few years ago so yes, I’d say he’s made at least two low-key flutes.
Now I’m just hoping he’ll make one in Delrin someday … <hint, hint>
Isn’t Debt great, we get wonderful instruments, and have to sell them to keep afloat. I’m open to reasonable offers on this flute if anyone is interested. I also have a soundclip that I can email if necessary.
I’ve only had this Copley six-key C flute for a matter of days, and already I’m falling in love with it.
When I got it, I noticed that it has a lined head joint, and that was a disappointment because I assumed that with the weight of a lined head along with the weight of the tuning slide, the flute would automatically be head heavy, or out of balance, so to speak. However, and much to my surprise, it turns out that this Copley C flute is remarkably well balanced.
Let me add, that this is my first six-key C flute, and so I’m somewhere at a near-beginner stage in getting the hang of chromatic scales with it.
I’ve now had the Copley C flute for a week. And, this flute can jump harmonics and octaves in the blink of an eye, fast!
I’m still getting used to the particulars of the tuning of this flute, although it’s basically quite good, and I’ll get back here, eventually, about that.
Also, it’s blackwood, and came to me nicely oiled. A few days later I oiled it again, and today it might get yet another drop of oil, but it looks and feels great!
Thanks, cat. It seems that I keep finding new reasons to really like this flute. Definitely, it’s a keeper!
This isn’t my first keyed flute, but it is my first keyed C flute, and I’m now trying to get my head wrapped around yet another chromatic fingering system.
Perhaps I could soon qualify for Flutaholics Anonymous, including twelve semi-tone steps to recovery.