I have a Casey Burns Folk Flute I wish to sell. I’ve had the flute for about 6 months and it has a lovely sound. It is fairly loud, has a rich tone and has been well played in. I’m selling it to move up to a different flute. I would keep it if I could afford to. It comes in a thick fleece case that I had made for it.
It is a Ergonomic Standard model
Taking the price down to sell. I’ll leave it another 2-3 days then i’m going to put it on ebay.
New price $190.
I am based in Scotland shipping should cost about $10-20 to ship to US. Anywhere in the UK or Europe being cheaper.
SOLD — And hopefully Doug isn’t allergic to it :S.
They are garvie bagpipes I play well spotted. My new flute is going to be the Marcus Heron advertised on here, then maybe put myself on a waiting list for a keyed one. Want to try my mates Cotter before I decide which. She lives in Skye so I’ll call round at Christmas and have a shot.
I have a Garvie chanter (Heriot & Allan drones) and it has great tone and is as chromatic as Nigel claims.
I haven’t played a Hernon or Cotter but they were on my short list for flutes. I ended up with a flute from Paddy Ward’s Spring batch (short wait, low price, and a good reputation).
It seemed like a good price, so I bought it. People sometimes ask me to make a recommendation for a wooden flute. I have been mentioning Casey’s folk flute, mainly based on recommendations here at C & F. However, I thought that it might be a good idea if I had at least played one myself. I am also curious as to whether I am going to have a contact allergy to mopane, as blackwood is a problem for me.
Jack, I know you are joking. I wouldn’t put a pvc cap on one of Casey’s beautiful wooden flutes. Besides, I am not just allergic to blackwood at the embouchure, but also my fingers itch where I touch the finger holes.
If I am allergic to mopane, I will find the flute a good home. The CB folk flute will have made two trans-Atlantic journeys. I recently sold a professional level CB flute. In its brief history it had travelled around the United States, and it finally ended up in Washington state, close to where it was born.
Yes, I was joking but since then I’ve had an idea. What about a slide-on “lip-plate” like the silver ones we sometimes see on crocus. The PVC has enough spring that it could stay in place…
Previous to that thread, I had always thought of the rosewoods as not a family, but a genus. But in that thread it was asserted that hardwoods in the family Fabaceae (legumes), which includes cocus (which I’d never considered a rosewood), mopane, were all rosewoods.
So, depending on which you believe, either or both of the statements above are correct.
Actually, chas if you read later in that thread I was corrected as Mopane is not in the Rosewood family at the time I thought it was. I seem so two faced now. One of the people correcting me was Casey Burns, whos knows his Mopane. It is actually in the Legume family.
Sorry, I wasn’t intending to make you appear two-faced (I realize it looks that way; yours was just the first post I found by searching); I was pointing out that people don’t necessarily use the terms uniformly. Mopane is as much a rosewood as cocus – they’re in the same family, but not the same genus as the “classic” rosewoods.
Mopane, blackwood, and cocus are all in the same family, but they’re in three different genera.
