FOR SALE
As New, Includes Northwind Case and Reunion Blues leather case cover
12K or Best Offer over 8K by Christmas
PM or e-mail for photos and details
Mark Hillmann
Could you put photos up on this forum? Sounds really worth seeing and we folks here would love to see it.
Thanks, Shane
Sigh
There is a thread about this flute here:
Anyone else buying a bunch of lottery tickets this evening with vague hopes ?
Best wishes.
Steve
What a beautiful flute! I love the cocuswood and gold, nice combo. You are right, you will be hard pressed to find a clean piece of Cocuswood these days.
To bad you have to sell your dream flute…
Hi,
Why do you sell it ? as you only have it for a very short time?
Patrick
Lovely flute ! I wouldn’t like to leave that one on the session table while going to the loo 
Good luck to seller and buyer !
I’m with Patrick Jacob… You waited 25 years to get what must be the best looking flute I’ve ever seen from one of the top 2 or 3 makers in the world, even though you can’t really play it (but he’s a friend, so I can dig that), and you want to sell it after 18 months? You, Sir, are completely NUTS 
m.d.
I’m not nuts. I am really glad this flute was created in the first place. I’m glad that at the time, I was able to afford to pay Patrick to make such an exquisite thing. I wish I could do this flute justice, play it really well, and I wish my shoulder didn’t hurt when I hold it up. I don’t “want to sell it after 18 months.” What I want is to become immortal and keep it forever and make evocative music that inspires people. And I want to live in St. Tropez in a charming villa and eat haute cuisine and be 24 years old again.
It’s sure is an amazing looking flute. I think you’re right to sell it. A flute like that needs a home where it’ll be played. Absolutely no offence meant uillman as you never know what time your going to have to learn, but it would have been a great thing to get hold of if you had bought a cheaper flute many years ago so that by the time you got this beauty you’d be able to play it. It’s too much monies worth to have living in the house relatively idle.
Pretty, yes, but having played the flute I can say it’s just as pretty with eyes shut.
Rob
I am not the least bit offended, Bogman, I totally agree with you. Although I did not become proficient at all in this short time, I did get an inkling of what magical sounds a flute like this is capable of producing in the right hands. Happily, some of my efforts of yore went into trying to learn the uilleann pipes, an instrument that I dearly love, and on which I attained a modicum of tunefulness. So many wonderful instruments, so little time…
Fair play to you, Uillmann. That is certainly the finest looking flute I’ve ever seen. I hope to get one from Pat next year - WISH I could afford yours.
I wasn’t accusing you of speculating, mate…
m.d.
Hi Mark,
Thats really a big decision you had to make, what I understand. But hopefully you will find get a good home for the flute.
Patrick
SOLD
It should be noted that makers don’t mind their flutes being sold for more than the “new” price. It gives them headroom to increase their current price list. Well done (to both buyer and seller).
H
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It seems a bargain at $10,000. The unavailability of clear-grained cocus, the weight of the gold in the keys and rings, the extra time it takes to cast the gold. Olwell has only made two of them (cocus and gold). A flute like this is a lot rarer than a Rudall with fancy keys. And no doubt it plays better, too.
I seem to recall that he made a rose gold/blackwood flute about 20 years ago. I could be wrong, even the grey matter is greying. Back then, gold was 280 bucks an ounce.