Looks like a nice flute if you could spare $5,750 greenbacks, I am a little short at the moment… ![]()
Looks like a very interesting flute. Strong tone
Must be the offspring of my lovely Hudson!
Arbo ![]()
I wonder who the seller/player is…that is some fine playing in those sound clips…
Agreed!
Uuuummmm…
I think he used to be a member on C&F… I recognize the eBay seller, but forgot what his name was… ![]()
It’s David Migoya isn’t it? Selling three interesting flutes, nothing to be coy about.
This flute was for sale some time ago, and yes D. M. is the seller, as discussed previously. The memory on this forum is quite short ![]()
the flute was out on loan for a maker to measure, hence why it was removed for sale, Lorenzo. Don’t presume anything otherwise.
No point in having someone try to purchase it when it wasn’t available to be delivered.
That said…you’ll not find a better original Pratten … which has been described as a Rudall in a Pratten body. Kinda cool, really.
I wasn’t, I was just pointing out that it’s not the first time this flute was discussed on this forum. An Hudson Pratten is not something you see very often…! I’d really love to give it a try.
perhaps this one had. I know Arbo’s #221 had.
But now i understand what you meant.
And Ogden has #49 that I once had, sold to someone overseas and it’s managed to get his way.
I own #27, the oldest extant and one of the few with the distinct Hudson keys.
#515 is somewhere is at Edinburgh
and #641, the oldest extant, is yet to be located. It sold at Sotheby’s in c.1975.
There are not many around. I know a lesser-known flutemaker who owns one, I believe in the 200-serial number range, which makes 8 (i never count the one Andrew Kirby owned because it was originally a Siccama that converted. That one is an oddball.).
I’d been digging around on John Hudson for years and located and owned many of his flutes, most of which went by unnoticed at auctions or other sales. Not so much anymore.
I also have the pleasure of owning Siccama #32, which he constructed with the same Hudson keys.
Siccama flutes are the secret to the power of a Pratten and McGee has studied this with some success. I’m surprised others haven’t.
Siccama’s are pretty well unrivaled in power of tone. They really blow.
The early Pratten-Hudson are like this, too. The secrets, however, I can’t say because i don’t make flutes.
I play them! ![]()