2 year old Hamilton F flute with hard case. Perfect condition. This is a beautiful instrument. Current price from Hammy is $798 with an 8 month wait. This flute is available NOW for $775. Cheers, Steven
Where were you a couple days ago when I was looking for an F FLute? It is too late though as I got a Mark Hoza F Flute on the way. Good luck with the sale.
Will you tell us more about it? What’s it made of?
Lined? Slide? Sections? Thanks
Another question: what does one do with an F flute?
other than play it, of course. Why a flute in this key?
Well, I bought an F Flute as I know some people who wanted to Jam with me and they play mostly Jazz and an F Flute is louder (better for playing with Horns) and plays in Eb same as an Alto Sax and it is louder and has more flats than a C Flute. That is my reason for going after an F Flute and plus it has a really great sound. Another reason is to play harmonies with Fiffers playing Bb Fifes.
I don’t understand your point here. An F flute is F G A Bb C D E F+.
There is no Eb here unless you cross finger or half hole it. Please explain.
Thanks for the queries regarding the F flute. It is made of Blackwood. It has a lined headjoint and a tuning slide; three sections. I use the F flute to play tunes in F major and G minor. “Splendid Isolation” works really well on this instrument. I play a six-keyed D flute, but some tunes with F naturals and B flats are not as challenging on the F flute. You can find out more about the instrument by visiting Hammy Hamilton’s website.
An F flute is a good choice for people with small hands, expecially on cylindrical bore flutes. Compared to the large low D flute, I think the that the F flute is really cute. F is a very nice key, in my opinion, even if you are not interested in playing with other people. Also, you can play G minor or G modal quite easily with an F flute, and these are popular keys in Celtic music.
G Aeolian (your “G minor”) and G Dorian are both modes of scale. Each of them is a different sort of minor mode and statements that insinuate that G Aeolian is not modal are as misleading as statements that a mode is not a scale.
The fact that one can play Aeolian and Dorian modes from the 5 fingers down tonic on an F flute is not at all remarkable because the same goes for any simple system flute. So I despair about the rationale for Jim’s question. I know of no folk tradition that specifies that one is not allowed to change the keynote of any piece of music (transpose) if it is agreeable to the instruments and the singers.
One plays Amazing Grace with G tonic on a traditional Irish D flute and one would simply play it with Bb tonic on an F. Same fingering. What is the problem?
What would interest me is comments onthe differences in playing style and nuances engendered by a lighter, more easily fingered barrel.
I have a beautiful little HY POTTER “F” that I like to play for a change of pace…surprise !..Amazing Grace played w/ “D” fingering is one of my favorites for it !
As far as I’m concerned, it’s a completely different instrument, even more so than a “G”…
An F flute fingers the same as an Eb Alto sax. The fingering for G on an Eb sax sounds at concert Bb, and the fingering for G on an F flute also sounds at concert Bb. Hope that makes sense,
–Jeff
Doug, are you considering adding an F flute to the flutes you make? I have one of your G flutes that I really like.
Bob
Hi Jack,
Does your HY Potter still have the original crown? I am trying to find pictures of a HY Potter crown, as the one I am restoring, is missing the crown.
Cheers
The one I have is high pitch, made around 1910, the crown is almost a perfect hemisphere, about a 3/8" flat at the top,…made of blackwood (or ebony) The head on this one has no slide. 
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Your standard D flute can play both C and C# with cross-fingering for the natural. Ergo, an F flute can play both Eb and E with the same fingering as the D.
Well your question has been answer before I got to it. Think of it this way the Pitch of the Flute is a full step lower than it is called by. A D Flute is a C insturment as a C is a C, but an F Flute is an Eb instrument because the C fingering on a D flute is an Eb on an F Flute. Horns are always like this a Trumpet is a Bb insturment so is a Tenor Sax, but an Alto Sax and a Triple Barreled (the most common for Pro use) French Horn are both Eb instruments. Essentially it will make me be able to read/play along with the Alto Sax as I know these guys are dot readers and as I can I might as well but I usually get tunes by ear.
I discovered an important tip: it helps to be awake when looking at someone’s webpage and the list of flutes they make! I just somehow missed the F flute. 
Yes, I know that already (for past 45 years or so - have you actually understood my post that you quoted) but he talked about playing stuff in Eb. This means either modes relative to Eb key signature or scales with Eb tonic.
Neither really applies to F flute capacity unless you play Lydian Mode with Eb tonic or Raag Maarwa with Eb tonic. Neither will be found in ITM or western european traditions (which are the traditions that, unfortunately, seem to predominate in discussions here about the global simple system flutes).
Of course major pentatonic with Eb would be great but most don’t like using a cross fingered tonic. I tried to discuss some time ago because I do it and my summmary of the washout of that discursive attempt was more or less that I was a smart arse.
This is all meaningless for those of us who play SIMPLE SYSTEM FLUTES (unkeyed) which is what this forum is primarily about? I doubt whether Doug Tipple would make keyed F flutes or that Kything F flutes are keyed.
This only really applies to classical music. If you told someone playing irish music you were playing a C flute, they’d grab their C whistle, or their C pipes, or tune their fiddle down a tone. In irish music nomenclature, the flute/whistle/pipes are called by their fundamental note. So a D flute is one that plays a D scale with no keys, an F flute is one that plays an F scale with no keys, etc, etc.
FWIW I prefer this nomenclature, because it actually makes sense to me, or at least, it makes almost no sense for a diatonic D whistle to be called a C whistle…
Also, maybe I hung out with the wrong crowd, but all the professional french horn players I ever met played F instruments. Technically F/Bb as they were double horns. But, I’ve also never heard of a Triple Barreled french horn.