M&E flute website is not working

I have no idea who to tell this, so I am posting here hoping someone can pass the word to Mr. Cronnolly or whoever is reponsible for his website.

This link: http://www.irishflutes.net/mef/index.htm or just this: http://www.irishflutes.net/

Returns a 403 error (forbidden) with the following text:

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access / on this server.

Bad news for anyone who wants to buy a M&E flute.

Hi Zixinus, I came across a very interesting review, written in Oct. 2010, about one of Michael’s keyed polymer flutes by a fellow called Mark Chu - Carrol, a Computer Scientist and professional Software Engineer on an internet forum called " Good Math, Bad Math. " It turns out that this chap had agreed to revamp the M & E Flutes website in return for a flute. Sounds like a very sensible arrangement. I found the review informative and objective - in fact to date it’s one of the best reviews I’ve ever read on any flute. So I thought I should share it with others on the forum. It’s titled " My Newest Flute, made of…Plastic?! " See link below.



http://goodmath.scientopia.org/2010/10/

Mr. Chu - Carrol mentions thinking about buying a flute in F. from Michael at a later date. I wonder if the website is being currently over-hauled by this gentleman ( for another flute :slight_smile: ) and could possibly explain it’s absence ?

Don’t know how current it is, but this website seems to work fine:

http://homepage.tinet.ie/~mandeflutes/

Pat

Anything with a tinet.ie address would be nearly fifteen years old.

Tried getting on this site without success

Just reads Forbidden You don’t have permission to access /mef/RandR.html on this server.

Works fine for me.

Clearly there is a problem of some technical sort, if some folk can access it and others cannot. For me , the page comes up, but I’m unable to access any of the links. :confused: Maybe this site is being used as a temporary stop gap until a new website is completed ? As Mr. Gumby points out this site is a very old one.

M&E for awhile had/has two mostly identical websites running simultaneously: irishflutes.net & tinet.ie/~mandeflutes

The identical nature of the two was really only in respects to their content (many links simply forwarded to the other newer site). The design and web coding was improved on the irishflutes.net one. I visited it probably only a week or so ago.

Yes, this one still (in small part) works:
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~mandeflutes/

But this one no longer functions at all:
http://www.irishflutes.net

I believe the tinet.ie one is older (copyright 2003 vs. 2006). Irrespective of age, all of its page links push to the irishflutes.net page so effectively it is dead too.

Anyone wanting to contact M&E should be able via email:
mecronnolly@eircom.net

And archive.org captured a recent (November 2015) snapshot of the irishflutes.net page here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151120055322/http://irishflutes.net/

Vaughan

I tried Mr Connolly’s email as given here. That was about a month ago. I haven’t had a reply. Is he still with us?

Keith.

There’s a phone number on the site at archive.com

i’ve exchanged e-mails with him in the last month or so.

haven’t visited his web-site, though

be well

Good news, Jiminos. And thanks Mr Gumby, I’ll give it a little more time then try that number.

Keith.