I saw a posting on Craigslist in Dublin for a great Olwell flute for sale, if anybody is interested:
Patrick Olwell 6-key cocus flute in D - EUR6000 (Co Clare)
Hmmm…selling on Craigslist. Somewhere between the Fender Squier guitars and plastic marching band clarinets, I guess. 
Over $7,500 USD??? A little pricy to say the least. 
Even though Olwell flutes certainly are good flutes - I could get TWO eight-keyed Aebi flutes and a third keyless one for the same price.
Hum. 
Yes, well over £4k does seem rather excessive and probably unrealistic, especially for no foot keys. It must be well more than the source price, and even allowing for the no-wait factor, I’d say it was well OTT. I guess a guy can hope… It’s a durn purty flutey, though - I just went to have a gander 
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Two things about that…
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Having 2+ Aebi flutes would be cool.
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You still wouldn’t have an Olwell.
A similar keyed P.O. flute sold for over $6k more than a year ago - a sterling reputation and a long waiting list will do that for you! You’re paying for the “Get It Now” factor, in addition to the desirability of the instrument.
Cheers,
Rob
True. But I don’t want one anyway 
it doesnt sound too crazy. you’d have to wait like 6 years to get one of these, anyways. dont buy it if you dont want it for that price. personally, i would expect to pay about 6,000 for one of these anyways. cocus might be worth that extra 1,000, if you’re into that sort of thing.
I don’t know the seller, but I own of these wonders and they are amazing. Cannot go wrong here at all. There’s only about 20 of these in the world…
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Hey, ich bin mit meiner Schweizerflöte total zufrieden!
Na ja, g’lernt isch g’lernt, gell?
Haste auch wieder recht.
EUR6000
i would expect to pay about 6,000 for one of these anyways.
My concern is not so much that the seller stands to make a tidy sum but rather that this kind of pricing and it’s acceptance spoils it for the rest of us. Who’s really to blame, the seller or the buyer? Another consequence is more fraud ads and knockoffs.
Putting 2+2 together and getting 3, it wouldn’t be our own Cocus who is selling this, would it?? 
If it is, he must have enough cash to build a mansion down there now
It’s not Cocus’ flute, I’m quite sure.
Huh? Pardon me for asking, but whatever do you mean? Are you for throwing over the day-one principles of economics, i.e. the laws of supply and demand? Not sure what you’d propose as an alternative - care to enlighten us?
It’s true, I had the crack pipe in my mouth when I typed that.
Not like you to yield the point so quickly…you feeling okay?
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immer mit der Ruhe Leute…Schweizer Floete?..kann mann mit der auch jodeln?