So let’s get the thread started where we get to boast and brag and glamour over our holiday flute or flute-related acquisitions!
I’ve nothing to offer, sadly, as my finely crafted custom box for my Olwell has not arrived.
But I’m sure others have something to crow about.
Let’s hear it …and see it!
Well, I’ve sold two flutes, my Potter and a not so nice Boehm metal student Rudall Carte, I needed money to move to Ireland. I might also sell a German made flute in F.
I’ve bought another piccolo for 20 (+5) euros, metal head and wooden lip plate, but I’ll receive it after the holidays.
I’ll need to buy a new case for my antique flute, because a new headjoint (by Murray) is being made for it, and I’d like to take both around.
Nada.
My family and I exchanged glances.
I have purchased a few flutes on ebay during the past few weeks. I think of them as holiday acquisitions. The first flute is a Chinese-made band flute. I have three other Venus flutes (piccolo, concert flute, and alto flute), and I think that they very nice playing flutes and a terrific value. I bought this flute because I like the black nickel plating, which I also have on my piccolo. It is supposed to hold up better on the lip plate than my gold-plated flute. After all, for this price you wouldn’t expect the gold plating to be very thick. I also like the plateau-style keys that allow me to extend my fingers way over the keys and not worry about leaks.
band flute
The second acquisition is a piccolo in C in cocobolo wood, made by Kevin Jones. I have had several of Kevin’s flutes in the past. I think that this piccolo is quite beautiful, and it plays well too. Kevin Jones piccolo
I have a hunch I’ll be receiving The Irish Flute Player’s Handbook, so I’m looking forward to that.
I received a set of Abell whistles (Eflat, D and C) in Mopane. A very Merry Christmas. 
mine’s been treating me pretty well so far too…!
I know I’m getting a set of dizi (Chinese flutes) from my father-in-law. I hoping to get one of Doug’s Bb flutes as a gift from my dad, but that’ll be sometime during the “Christmas Season,” not on Christmas day itself.
Hey, Doug… how could you pass these up???
From the same seller as Doug’s band flutes:
Happy 2012!
Well, I’m sincerely hoping that 2012 will see me receiving my long awaited Olwell Pratten.
My musical highlight of 2011 was the Freeman A whistle, which I’m really enjoying.
m.d.
Sorry, David, for some peculiar reason, I missed this thread, or I’d have added to it.
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/guess-where-ive-been/79712/1
At Thanksgiving, My MIL gave me her Uncle Harley’s Harmony Opus X (Jumbo Acoustic) that he bought brand new in the 70’s. I don’t know anything about Uncle Harley except that he had a stroke and his guitar sat untouched for over 10 years. Here’s an on-line photo of what one looks like. The guitar has a sweet sound. I’ve been playing a 12 string for so long, I have to learn to adjust. I wish I was playing it at Christmas Morning Mass but I don’t want to throw everyone off.
oh my
an andrew box.
sigh
i can wait…must wait…calmly wait.
to quote robert bigio: “his work is exquisite”
marvelous Ben.
Thanks David. I’m sure you’ll get yours soon, and I’m really looking forward to seeing the pics when you do. 
I just picked up a Dean Yang Boehm flute, i.e. typewriter / sound cannon. No way any simple system flute can compete with this thing in terms of volume; it’s almost too loud (have to rein it in much of the time). The mechanism is amazing and it’s a great flute for the price. I play trad tunes on it mainly in F, G dorian and D dorian, that is, all the F low whistle tunes I love.
Getting a new Goldie high D.
Still waiting for my Olwell Nicholson keyless. 
Basically, at the end of this, I’ll have revamped my whole arsenal; then, the madness must stop. 
It’s been about a month since it arrived, but it still feels like Christmas morning to me.
It’s a McGee 6-key blackwood Rudall Perfected. Pristine, just as David Migoya promised, and housed it a magnificent birdseye maple box.
BTW, it easily doubles as Crooked’s retirement gift to self! 
I think the season is getting too much for me. I just came back to this thread … and managed to misread the title as “Holy Acquisitions!!!” As in, “Holy Acquisitions, Batman!!!”
LOL
that’s a good one…holiday=holy…in keeping with the season.
I’ve been avoiding the discussion, I thought it read, “Holiday Accusations…”
Isn’t the origin of the word “holiday” from “holy-days”? (too tired to do the research…)