Hi,
I am selling a Firth, Pond that I got from JessieK on this forum in April 2008. I am selling it because I ordered a keyed flute from a modern maker and 2 keyed flutes is one too many for me.
Here is an excerpt from Jessie’s post (See her original topic):
The flute is an antique Firth, Pond & Co. It is made of blackwood and silver. In addition to the original head, which doesn’t play so beautifully but is included (I didn’t photograph it), it has a lovely blackwood and silver head made for it by Chris Abell. It is a narrowish-bore flute with smallish holes, and its natural tone is sweet and pure, with good volume. It is similar in design to Grey Larsen’s favorite flute (same maker and time period), which was the model for Terry McGee’s GLP flute.
It seems that because of the phpbb3 migration, HTML has been encoded as plain text, so here are direct links to Jessie’s pictures: the entire flute, the headjoint, the body and the foot.
I got the flute repadded and recorked by Jon C in April 2008. I paid $2050 canadian dollars for this flute (including repair, shipping and exchange rate). I’m asking $1800 CAD (including shipping within North America). Given that the loonie collapsed because of the state of the economy, $1800 CAD is now worth about $1415 USD. I reckon that with the exchange rate that would bring it to something around USD $1500…
I’ll be in Europe at Christmas, so I’m happy to take it with me and ship it from there if anyone in Europe is interested (euros are fine too, I would ask € 1150 since shipping from France is very pricey).
Cheers,
Julien