Sam is in Cork, I believe, right?
Humidity in Ireland? C’mon folks. It IS surrounded by water afterall.
Says I from the arid, high deserts of Colorado
dm
I wonder how Cork compares to this:
RELATIVE HUMIDITY (PERCENT)
HIGHEST 90 400 AM
LOWEST 66 1200 AM
AVERAGE 78
That’s today’s humidity in Kansas City…a place no where near a significant amount of water. And, it’s much less humid today than it was for the past 3 days. However, in winter we’re as dry as you are David.
Just grist for the mill…
Eric
Murray: Galway
Hammy: Cork
Wahl, Ah ain’t lettin’ the Hammy go back over there jest yit. Took it three weeks to recover from its Christmas trip. But hmmmmm. Maybe it wasn’t the humidity at all … should I suspect <dah-dum, dah-dum> the Guinness Factor? … And all this time I thought it was just humidity hangover.
P.S. Yes, David, I’m going to bed now. Night-night, all!
ChrisLaughlin
That said, I don’t think sarcasm is appropriate in responding to innocent, well-meaning (if uninformed) posts by relative newcomers to this board, to fluting and to Irish music - especially when the intention of that sarcasm is to hurt that newcomer.
[getting it off my chest] :roll: Sam Murray has possibly the worst reputation for customer service among all the high-end makers. I don’t think that fact could really be considered as breaking news. Given that fact, I can read nothing in Andrew’s post (even reading between the lines, and between the lines between the lines) that suggests any intention to hurt a newcomer.
If we don’t have a few “characters” on this board, then the level of discussion becomes dull & monotonous (which is, I fear, the direction it has been heading of late). How many times can we re-hash the various Olwell threads, or “Flute on Ebay” threads or “I’ve got my new WilkHamBurnWell flute and it’s great” threads before the forum just dies from boredom (or worse, it lives on a life support machine, being drip-fed weekly doses of “Olwell” threads! 
).
I like Andrew a lot. His posts invariably make me laugh. He is extremely well informed on the subject of old flutes and he is just a really nice guy. He’s been around this board long enough for people to get a handle on his style and his undoubted humour. I believe that more people enjoy his style than are offended by it - but to all the shrinking violets out there who are still offended by his comments, call 1-800-PROZAC and ask for the multi-saver value-pack. Wait for the mail man to deliver and then suck-em down and just chill out 
- life’s too short. [/getting it off my chest]
Cheers,
Graham (waiting for his Prozac shares to increase in value)
Can I like Andrew and get the Prozac too?
Perhaps those Tanzanians ( really German East Africans ! ) are all laughing their heads off at sending all their crappiest blackwood to the Irish ! ( And probably quite recently too ! )
Sign me up for the Andrew/Prozac Pak.
But hmmm. Come to think of it, Andrew’s comments are one of the many things that help me get along without the “peace pill”!
Gosh, Andrew. That’s a disturbing thought about East Africans laughing up their sleeves … well, wait, do they have sleeves? Into their dashikis? Or maybe under their burnooses (after The Great Narwhal Blunder I’m being cautious here)? Hmm. Maybe short sleeves.
Anyway, you raise an interesting point about the importance of good relationships between makers and suppliers. Could it be … a new topic?
Nah, too boring, I suspect. Back to Olwell, ebay and embouchures.
Rave on!
Wait, I wanna hear more about this flute! Please post pics and sound files!!
Steven
(and, I must admit, in no small part at myself)