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Irish Flute
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I have been lurking since St. Patrick’s Day. The weekend before I attended a concert featuring Chris Norman and Chatham Baroque and that was all she wrote. :smiley: I went in search of music (I play the Boehm flute) and the store had two keyless flutes - a cheap plastic one and a new Copeland in blackwood. I could not resist and bought the Copeland and have been loving it.

I am looking for a teacher in Maine, preferably in the midcoast area but I’d be willing to travel.

Thanks!

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hi

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you got lucky and chose well!!

as far as a teacher, there’s a longtime fluteplayer who lives on the coast somewhere north of portland (in or around belfast (?)maybe). i bet she could help ya. her name is sharon pine.

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Welcome.

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rama -

Wow, Belfast is practically next door. Unfortunately there is no Sharon Pine in the phonebook. Do you know how I might be able to contact her?

Thanks!

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not sure if i still have her contact info but let me try to dig up an address or phone number and i will PM you.

edited:

check your PM’s

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I tried a keyless, blackwood Copeland a couple weeks ago at Dusty Strings in Seattle. I hope it’s still there next I’m there. $1400 is out of my budget but I still fancy another honk on it. :blush:

Cheers,
Aaron

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They are $1,198 from the man himself. Probably a bit of wait tough.

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"I tried a keyless, blackwood Copeland a couple weeks ago at Dusty Strings in Seattle. I hope it’s still there next I’m there. $1400 is out of my budget but I still fancy another honk on it. " Aaron.

A keyless Copley for 1400 USD - hmm, a keyless blackwood Olwell was offered on Friday for 1200 USD. Are Copley’s more expensive/coverted than Olwells nowadays? :confused:

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Copeland, not Copley. They are different.

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Thanks Henke - O.K. take 2:

A keyless Copeland for 1400 USD - hmm, a keyless blackwood Olwell was offered on Friday for 1200 USD. Are Copeland’s more expensive/coverted than Olwells nowadays? :astonished:

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Okay Steam :slight_smile: .
I don’t know why Copelands are so expensive. $1,198 is quite a lot for a keyless Blackwood with rings and slide and this is + the wait. Buy one from a store and you’re likely to pay $1400 as in this case. Compair with Hamilton’s $845. Copley’s $890 (with Sterling Silver tuning slide). Ormiston’s $991. Casey Burn’s $975 ($800 if you substitute Blackwood for Mopane). And so on.

I’ve heard that the Copelands are mighty flutes, but I wonder how he can charge that much anyway. The guy is a very reputed whistle smith, but can’t have nearly the same kind of reputation as Hammy or Copley when it comes to flutes, or can he? Have I just been missing something?

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I think the recent Olwell sale is the first in the history of the world in which somone hasn’t tried to make money on the deal; that’s the only reason that it was less.

I think they’re more coveted than the C-makers, as is evidenced by the fact that the flute sold in 5 minutes.

:slight_smile:

Stuart

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Welcome, and check your PMs

Corin

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I once went up into Maine , but it seemed to be shut .

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are you from Massachusetts Andrew, we stop 'em at the border :smiley:

Corin