Interesting geegaw here. Did they make many flutes like this as well?
No cracks! A “ding,” however. Pity the fellow wants $300 to start.
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That embouchure looks big for that size pipe!
Well it looks cool.
Indeed they did. This looks like the work of the Itialin maker Rampone. They are not, as the subject claims, “solid silver”. Indeed they are hollow silver - there is an inside and an outside skin, and the holes between them are lined. Sometimes referred to as “vaccum flask flutes”, although there is not a vacuum between the skins. Amazing work, eh?
Terry
Yeah I Know! But what do you call it then? “Silver flute” sounds like you’re simply talking about ferrules and keys.
Indeed this is Rampone, I notice a few of his items at the Dayton Miller website. It seems like some of the all-metal head joints I’ve seen have exceptionally large embochure holes, too.
Have you handled one of these babies, Terry? I wonder how the flutes are for weight.
The famous uilleann piper and pipemaker Leo Rowsome was given a…“Silver” set of Northumbrian pipes by the crowd up in Newcastle-On-Tyne. Meaning that the chanter and drones of the pipes was fashioned from silver, whether in this fashion or completely out of silver I’m not sure. I bet you could get away with holding up a set of smallpipes of solid silver - a piccolo wouldn’t be that bad either, I imagine.