A GHB student of mine picked up a flute from a eBay a couple months back (she’s a long time Boehm flautist who took an interest in Irish flute before starting lessons with me). I was dubious until I got to play the flute. It is unmarked delrin with a tuning slide and no rings. It had really good tone but the GFE holes are placed oddly. The G and F are really close with a big spread between F and E.
After a concert a couple weeks ago somebody mentioned how difficult the stretch is on the E and this led me to wonder if my student’s flute wasn’t a Seery.
Are Seery flutes marked? Does the hole placement sound familiar? Could somebody possibly post or email some photos?
I don’t think it’s a Seery, or an original M&E. Neither has any odd finger hole placement like that.
My Seery is unmarked, but has silver rings-don’t know if there ever was a choice without rings. Of course, there are always exceptions, when somone may have gotten one custom made, or it was an experimental model.
The original M&E I have is unmarked also, but you can tell it’s an M&E by the contours, and finger holes are spaced just like the Seery, just smaller in size, in general.
Sorry, no pictures and no digital camera. The makers’ websites have pretty good pictures though.
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If you have a look at the old Seery website, you see lots of different flutes on a picture there. Seems like the man has done a fair bit of experimenting with designs in the past. Now he only seems to offer Prattens and some small-holed alternative, usually Delrin with silver rings, normal Pratten design with a single center section.
On that picture there are flutes in lots of different materials, different hole setups, there was one with a R&R double center section, and one with a split center and the foot section integrated with the RH section, there were even a couple with some sort of embouchure plates on.
This might very well be some old, unknown Seery design.
Not a Seery. Some were unmarked for a while, but nothing unusual about hole placement. All had rings (D-rings mostly, but very early flutes had bands rather than raised profile rings).