I am a newbie in the flute world. I was given a home made wood flute by a freind it is not a well made instrument.
Ihave seen many of these wood Irish flutes on Ebay for what I consider a reasonable price.question is are they worth a darn they look very nice in the photos.
yes verrrry good…to make a lamp out of it 
generally known as out of fune, badly finished, don’t play well, or shortly said, waste of money.
if you want a starter flute, get a tipple flute (also on ebay), great value and well thought of on this forum, another good one would be an olwell bamboo.
if you want a conical flute, a dixon polymer 3 piece would be a good starting point or an casey burns folk flute…
have FUN and greetings
berti
No. It is as simple as that.
No
No
No – I am sorry this came up three times. I was fighting pop ups with AOL and when it was over there it was. I am changing to Road Runner
on Monday.
They are playable, but they take buttloads of air to do it, and the embouchure you’ll develop to do so will be, in short, a bad habit. Once habituated to such a dog, come the time you are able to try a good flute, you’ll tear your hair out going about revamping everything in your approach to fluteplaying. Believe me, this is personal experience. Life is short.
So:
No.
Nothing like being positive, Tommy !
Just curious, how were you holding the flute?
Guys you are acting like Pipers. 
Too late!
goes off to wrestle the octopus
Well, you know the old saying: “Youth is short lived, but immaturity can last a lifetime.”
Ain’t it the truth.
I get the feeling that they are junk.thanks for the tips!
I get the feeling that they are junk.thanks for the tips!
I had 3 such wooden flutes lent to me, playable but not good,
and each one was out of tune with itself, and none was accurate on
an electronic tuner.
Get a Tipple.
Great value for money,
and you can specify how you want the holes i.e. in line, offset.
Very playable, in tune, accurate.
Also tuneable so you can play with other instruments.
Finger chart and useful CD with tunes and information
included in price.
I bought one out of curiosity,
and I haven’t played my other flutes since it arrived
3 days ago. Nice instrument, and to repeat - great value for money.
HTH
there are two types of flute - ones that are playable and ones that are not if you get an unplayable one you’ll spoil it for yourself because you’ll be fighting the thing that should be working for you. On a personal level my flute is an extension of myself and whichever flute I pick up I always sound like me. It is nice however to pick up a flute that will do what I want without my frustration levels going through the roof. When I first started playing I went and bought a the most amazing looking flute (or so I thought) little did I know that it had come all the way from sunny Pakistan - at the time I thought because it was called an irish flute then that was where it came from - I thought that I had no aptitude for flute playing and was preparing to sell it and take up knitting when a very honest and kind man told me that it was the crappiest item he’d ever had the chance to spit into. After spending a little more money back then and a shit load last year I realised that there was light at the end of the tunnel(although it’s very, very far away)
I am sorry about the three no’s in a row. I did not mean to do that.
I was fighting pop ups with AOL and when it was over there they were.