Just because you were deliberately trying doesn’t mean you succeeded. Patrick Olwell has never made a flute that can’t be played up to pitch, in boxwood or any other wood.
I myself own a boxwood Olwell Rudall with no slide, which I can play session-loud and well in tune. Bully for me.
Rob
I am reminded, somehow, of the time I sold an Eb flute to someone who found it played in D in their hands. Sound familiar?
I repeat: Pat’s flutes all play up to pitch. Tuning slide or no, whatever the wood. We may, by design or defect, play them flatter than that.
Rob
Was the session or the person sitting next to you even playing A=440?
Heck, I’ve been in sessions where the guy next to me didn’t seem to be playing the same tune. . . 
Cheers,
Bob
All the concertinas around here are at 442 - go figure.
Rob
My Olwell Rosewood has been sold. Thank you for your interest.
All the best, Toba
My Olwell Rosewood has been sold
If it’s sold it’s not yours 
I offered the guy what he was asking- $800, plus shipping. This is what he said in response:
Here are some photos. Is $900 plus shipping ok? I am getting alot of inquiries…
Let me know.
Luke
I pointed out that I was offering what he’d asked for and never heard from him again.
That Luke. I guess it’s in the genes.
You guys! I must set you straight. I am new to this site. In fact I have never tried to sell anything on line ever. I am a young woman (Luke’s wife) who has (had) a lovely Olwell flute that I no longer play and since I feel bad having unplayed insturments, I thought I would try to sell it. I had no idea if I would ever even get a responce from my post. I picked a price out of thin air and then started getting offered more for it. So, “oh maybe i can get a bit more”. Who wouldn’t? And in the end I sold it for close to my asking price becaues the person who inquired was polite and they really wanted the flute, and couldn’t afford more and really wanted to learn.
Well I am not particularly impressed with all this banter. I am quite an honest person. It feels funny to be slagged, when I was just trying to get this flute to someone who will love it!
I sent photos to all who asked and had quite nice email correspondence with a number of you. But really, don’t you have better things to do then slag some stranger? It certainly isn’t a warm welcome to CandF.
All the best, Toba
Sincere apologies from me. (Truly). It wasn’t meant as a personal slag. Just a bad joke.
An Olwell flute becoming available is always a cause for commotion here. We all wish you well.
the above being the total information we’ve been given about yerself
say yer sittin’ in the basement of yer church talkin’ with the rest of the choir before rehearsal…
Someone comes in wearing a bursa and seems to have a beard. They ask you if any of ya want ta buy this plain gold cross and offer to show pictures of it.
The only information that you have given is after the fact while being indignant.
We have nothing substantial to base any opinion on at this time.
If someone quits lurking long enough the say that they have received the flute and all is good then we would have something.
If four or five people quit lurking long enough to say that they have not received the flute and alls is not good then we would have something.
If you list a flute at 800, say, you are offering a deal–the flute for 800.
A deal is a deal. If you find you can get more money and you wish
to charge more, then you have a responsibility to change the listing
to the new price. Keeping the old price in the listing, that is, offering the same deal,
and asking more of people who, on the basis of the listing,
have called you to buy the flute at the price listed
is widely viewed as a shady business practice. Obviously you did this in innocence,
and it’s better to keep the deal on the board and the deal on the phone
the same. All the best
Just noticed this again.
I don’t post on here any more, and I don’t even much lurk Denny, except for occasionally seeing if there is anything good for sale or lobbing up a flute to you guys first (not a big fan of ebay anymore), however, I would like to say that the seller of this flute (that I bought for one of my students) was very nice to deal with, entirely honest, and negotiated back down on her price after realising that she’d rather have it go to someone to whom it will mean a lot and who will learn a great deal by playing it, as she did. The flute arrived readily and is, I think, better than she explained it, a very fine instrument.
It might be considered that those who contacted her and confused the issue by offering more than she had asked for in an attempt to get her to sell it to them instead of to the original offerer (gazumping we call it in the UK), and suggesting thereby that it was acceptable practice in the Irish flute world, are possibly more blameworthy, considering her inexperience of selling this sort of item. The interest in the flute was surprising to her and I think she failed to change the posting largely because she didn’t expect to keep hearing about it and because the whole thing happened fairly quickly.
Be that as it may, the main point of this post is, speaking as the buyer of the flute in question, I tell you all (for future reference about this poster and in case she should sell another instrument here), that, the initial confusion aside (which was not much and not nearly worth the sturm und drang - which I’ve almost certainly spelt wrong), the deal was about as perfect as you could wish. Excellent communication, easy payment, and the flute arrived very well packed and in superb condition, and, if anything, better than advertised, as I said. I would do business with this person again in a minute, and hope to meet her for tunes sometime soon. Something I would not say to many on this forum (though, actually, there are also many that I would).
Best (not snidely meant) to you all,
Ben
It is nice when it works out!
Ben, if anyone advertised a flute as being as good as my rosewood Olwell, she’d be shouted down and run the hell out of Dodge. 
I know several others, many of whom are better flute players than I, who feel the same about their rosewood Olwells.