Healy Fifes for sale or trade.

I have a set of Skip Healy fifes one headjoint, two bodies. The bodies are Bb (deluxe model, 6-hole) and a 10-hole A body. The 10-hole body is, obviously fully chromatic…very cool. You haven’t lived until you’ve played one of Scottt Joplin’s rags on a fife! They come with a padded case

They are made of blackwood and sterling silver. Extraordinarlily nice and very powerful.

The new retail value of the set is $675. They have been babied.

I also have a 4-key (Eb, G#, Bb, short F) 18th century flute. It’s a good flute. C-nat is good with OXXOOO. I had Pat Olwell re-cut the embouchre which made it a much better flute (as you might expect :slight_smile: ). It has an old repair on the barreljoint. The barrel is fully lined so it’s irrelevant to playing. The headjoint is unlined so it has a nice woody sound. It looks like rosewood but Pat said it was probably blackwood. I’m guessing it’s worth between $500 and $600.
The holes are smallish which makes it a very easy flute to fill and makes ornaments very crisp. It’s plenty loud for small group sessions. The reason I am selling is the thing plays low-d cranns by itself so I’m not getting any sleep at night! :laughing: It comes with a padded pistol case.

Seriously, it would be a good flute for someone to decide if they wanted keys before they spent $2-3000.

The flute is sold.

I’d be willing to sell (make an offer by PM) or trade. A good flute, a harp or good whistles would be considered.

Please respond by PM if interested.

Thanks,

Doc[[/u][/b]

I have a Jew’s harp, am i in? :slight_smile:

That looks like a very nice flute. The fifes too. Great stuff.

g

We prefer to call them Hebrew American Harps…

of course, living on the South Side of Chicago, “harp” generally means blues harp… i got several and i’m willin to make a deal!

Please check your PM’S

Like Willie Brown says in that movie “Crossroads”: “Where i came from, you play no harp, you get no pussy.” Something to do with cats, i assume.

g

Oops! Correction!

The flute is 19th century (as in made in the 1800s).

I had surgery this week. Pardon me for being a little “wonky” :roll:


Doc

Bump. :slight_smile:

The flute is sold.

The extra-fine fife set is stil available. :slight_smile:


Doc

Off to eBay. Here’s the link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3741005374