I have a flute to sell by Maurice Reviol. Its a one piece body flute in D, with 6 pin-mounted sterling silver keys. This is my first flute, which I bought brand new at the beginning of May 2005, and its had regular oiling and use since. I bought it for 2,530 NZ$, which is about £950, I’m asking for £700+ p&p, and will include the hard case that comes with it.
On Maurice’s site, you can see the case by going to gallery, and scrolling down to where it says cases. I have a navy blue case the same as the one on the far right.
Onto the flute itself:
Its made from Honduran Rosewood, and has turned from a reddish colour to a deeper brown in the 2+ years that I’ve had it. From what I gather, the flute was made while Maurice was still in Dingle, working with Cillian O’Briain, and that the keys were added once Maurice had set up his workshop in New Zealand. The keys are in great condition, as are the pads.
The flute is wonderfully in tune up to 3rd E- and probably further, but I haven’t gone there- has a good solid sound, and is capable of quite a range of sounds, from a sound quite like Emer Mayock’s to the honking which Kevin Crawford blasted out of it.
Here are a few photos, and also a video](http://www.box.net/shared/99qtp3jjib%22%3Evideo) clip of me playing the flute today.. I apologise for the crap playing, audio and video quality.. 2 can be explained by using my laptop’s iSight and internal mic, the other…
The tune I’m playing is one I wrote for Mike McGoldrick after celtic connections 2006- he stayed in the lift of the festival club hotel, going up and down singing to everyone that came in- The Singing Lift.
Good luck with the sale! I hope that you won’t regret after you sold it - I could never sell my Reviol as it’s a killer flute. Mine works fine up to the 3rd G (ouch.) BTW. Depends a bit on cork placement.
Dear sclery,
Good on you for your easy sale and your well put together first post with those lovely pictures.
I was wondering if you could answer something for me, seeing as I have never owned or played a simple system KEYED flute and only play one of my student’s Boehm rarely.
How many of those keys on your previous flute are operated by the digits of your L and R hands each and what notes are they?
Terry has a nice clear picture of the 6-keyed flute,
and accompanying notes regarding which finger
works which key. Although he’s upside down the
flute is upside up. Helpful picture for those not
familiar with the 6-keyed simple system flute.
On the flute pictured, the short F is played with R3, C-nat with R1, Eb with R4. Bb is played with the left thumb, G# and long F are both played with L4. This is also the layout of two different keyed flutes that I’m test driving now. I believe this to be a standard layout, although Reviol’s keywork looks different… more curves, esp. in the G# key, which is a straignt key pointing toward the foot on the flutes I’m evaluating.
Hope this helps.
dow
Edit. I see that cocusflute is quicker on the keyboard than me, as well as more economical with words. Now you’ve got it twice.
yes, I have corresponded with Maurice Reviol. A wonderful fellow.
I want my l thumb for my C nat hole and so, he says, I have a choice of R1 or L3 Bb.
I don’t (intuitively speaking) like the idea of Ab and long F both at L4 . I’m thinking of 4 keys only being Bb, Ab, F and Eb. I am thinking I’d like long F rather than short F and a L3 Bb, R4 Eb and, yes, wait for it, something like a R3 Ab!! The last is to make it two keys per hand and only one digit per key and each hand having one key for the same body piece and one for the other body piece.
In my above scheme I didn’t even want short F and I didn’t say the G# was a universal problem. I just said I didn’t want L4 having to do both G# and long F and that I only wanted long F for the L4 and whether anyone could comment on G# on, say, R1, R2 or R3.
