Nice to see someone else interested in other makes of flute than English. Their tone is different, not inferior.
Does the Ebay URL for the real Meyer still work? I’d be interested in what they said, I usually take a peek at any Meyer that shows up. Invariably they advertise it as Meyer and then mention the word NACH, not realizing what it means.
I have Nach piccolo, fife, and flute. Kind of a stuffy tone, the German flutes seem to have thicker bodies than the English but the master makers seem to know how to translate that into a really rich tone whereas the Nachs sound a bit drab in comparision. It’s unfortunate they were mad for keys, the extra metal weighs things down a bit.
My George Cloos is a great flute! Very powerful sound, I used to really assail the ear drum after playing that thing for a while, but like you said, not very big holes. Too bad it’s LP. I’d call it a German flute, it really belongs in their company, despite being made in New York.
My Cloos piccolo is very thin, though.
I thought to look for “Flute” on Craig’s List one day and found, for $40 each, a wooden Boehm flute, and an Italian job with all the trill keys, low B, Toulou F, and duplicate Bb, C, G#. Insane! Oldflutes.com shows one with a duplicate Eb, though. I kept looking on Craig’s for a while but all I ever found were Gemeinhardts etc.
You can make pads out of white water kayak knee pad foam, which is available online. Rod Cameron uses them. I made my own cutters out of K&S brass tube, which is available in hobby shops or online.
Here is the link: http://tinyurl.co.uk/rktx
It got past your watchful eye! 
That is the nice thing of having so many copies, that when the real thng comes around, people think it is another copy…
of the Rosewoods, Madagascar is my favorite, very tight and closed grain, and has this deep purple eggplant like color, as Jon said, bright red when fresh turned, but darkens quickly, not quite as oily as some of the Rosewoods, very bright tone.