Just a note to let everyone know that the Ressikan Flute prop from Star Trek TNG is still for sale.
Quite a bargain at only $2000… I can’t believe someone hasn’t snapped it up already! 
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What I want to know is, does it even play? It looks like the holes aren’t spaced properly or have the right diameters…
It’d probably sound blech.
Well, I know it’s possible to make a native american (style) flute that has six equal spaced and equal diameter holes and sounds normal, but that is a pentatonic scale. I don’t see why it can’t be true for a ‘whistle scale’ as well. And I know that in one of the episodes where Picard was playing it, I was able to play along with the same fingering on my Dixon D. So my guess would be that it plays correctly (though there is no guarantee that Patrick Stewart was playing the whistle that is for sale).
2,000 clams? does it come with that happenin’ stone case from the “inner light” episode or is that an extra 1000?
[ This Message was edited by: Nubby on 2002-02-23 21:47 ]
Well,
Picard learned to play it in his dreams, I guess that’s where I’ll buy it.
Vinny
PS Thom, maybe you could get your 2 Klingon friends to “procure” it.
I wonder if the prop guy would have used a real whistle if he had known people would pay attention to it. Which is a more obsessive fan the trekkie or the whistler?
(I am guilty of being both)
Ummm.. Yep it does whistle, But its not really in tune, It was just a prop,and never meant to play an important role. Most of the sounds you hear on Star Trek are added in Post Production.Although I do know that Worf
plays a Bodhran. Althoug he could have just been playing around that day
Dan
Here’s a bit of trivia for you that should put an end to the speculations that the prop was really a playable instrument… in “The Inner Light” the whistle was an Eb, but in “Lessons” it was a D.
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[ This Message was edited by: raindog1970 on 2002-02-25 07:21 ]
$2000 buckaroos! Before I’d buy that I’d get me that gorgeous sterling silver engraved Copeland. Acch!
Mary