Check this out http://cgi.ebay.com/Rudall-Carte-8-key-antique-wooden-flute_W0QQitemZ7417275121QQcategoryZ10183QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Any thoughts? - Tod
cylindrical body and ugly as sin if you ask me..
I wonder what the seller means by “8-keyed…high-pitch flute”? High pitched? Is it in Eb or something?
higher than A 440
Read Terry McGee’s site…much information.
Is it really cocus? It looks more like rosewood.
The cylindrical body and wood color/grain makes it look like a bamboo Olwell with rings and keys.
this flute was on ebay last week and sold for 100 plus and the seller has oiled it and put it back on with a better desription if i remeber correctly the tube in the headjoint was needing realigned.
David
Looks shouldn’t really matter, of course, if it plays well.
I tried a Rudall Carte a few weeks ago and it was absolutely gorgeous. Not sure what the year was of the one I tried. It was definitely blackwood, not cocus. It could be worth it . . . . hard to say.
The Ruddall Carte I tried was selling for $3400. That’s over three months of mortgage for me! It broke my heart to leave the flute, but, so be it. With that price in mind, the one on ebay probably is an inferior flute … or not … who knows? Quite tempting … Notice the seller is only shipping within Great Britain.
Good luck to whomever gets it - I’d like to hear a report back on how it really is!
I own the “cousin” to this flute.
These are last of the Rudall 8key flutes, cylindrical bodies, parabolic heads. A very different sound.
The wood is indeed cocus.
Karen, I know of no Rudall 8key flutes made of “blackwood” the generic for the oily wood families. Cocus when used a lot will indeed get blackish, covering up much of the grain work.
I don’t think Rudall would have used inferior rosewood on their flutes. Just not in line with what the company was about.
The high pitch is likely (although I might be wrong) Eb. The seller may not have access to the Eb scaling to check (but I think this fellow, Arthur, deals mostly in clarinets and saw a quick turn on this flute).
The cousin that I own, #7203, is in Eb, dead-on at 440. So I’m sure this one, too, is in that area.
They play well, the cylindrical 8key flutes, but take a different lip. Not the same sound as the cone flute. Not worse, just different.
This flute is worth far more than the measly couple hundred it got the first go around. That was embarrassing to see.
dm