Dow, how does the Cooktown Ironwood sound? surely it looks very nice… (ups i’m going off topic 
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I’ve played a cork town ironwood flute
and heard another played by a teacher,
and been unimpressed. This is very much
FWIW, obviously, as who knows what
I was really hearing?
So I’d be grateful for the comments of
more experienced people.
I guess I made a mistake in my fuzzy thinking kind of way…when I used the term ‘dark’ to describe the kind of tone I am after. I was not at all aware of the implications of the word for flute players. I am now assumng that ‘dark’ to most people with a greater understanding of these terms than myself would refer to a ‘reedier’, ‘tighter’ tone. I hope my inadequacy with words does not confuse the issue yet agin. However if my new understanding of the term ‘dark’ is correct ( and I feel it is an appropriate description of the the GLP ) in fact dark would not be at all the type of tone I would want. I’m starting to find this bizarre.
Anyway however badly the question was put I am still glad to have put it. Everybodies comments, advice and suggestions have been very stimulating and helpful. In future I shall take care to be more accurate with my words if I can. Thanks for everybodies input.
Nate
you’ll get used to it after a while… 
A wise man once said “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture”
I play a GLP and love it. I ain’t sayin’ what it sounds like! 
Doc
Still hope you will try a rudall
Aye, words convey different images - For me a flute with a “dark sound” has a full, strong, heavy timber/tone as opposed to a “light” airy, trebley, classical music flute type sound. Or more indelicately, a full on, ballsy, primoral roar, as opposed to a sissy, fragile, mouse like squeak. However as has been mentioned earlier, the most important factor is the musician, his choice of clothing, and his sobriety
do be careful…
Joanie Madden might stop by and smack ya.
Err… It sounds like a flute. Decent when I play it, better when someone better plays it, and great when someone great plays it. The only thing that I have to compare it with is my William Hall, which is the GLP’s great, great grandaddy or uncle or something like that. It’s a six-key flute of cocus, and about 150-160 years old. The flutes sound similar, but do have different voices. Whether that’s because of the difference between Cooktown ironwood and cocus or because the Hall has a lined head and the McGee doesn’t or because the Hall is keyed and the McGee isn’t or because the Hall was made in New York and the McGee was made in Australia, I couldn’t tell you.
I’d have to agree with Doc.
I play a GLP and love it. I ain’t sayin’ what it sounds like! >
I am glad he only said it once.
But I am saddened that two different posters have said “cork town ironwood” independently. This is a place in Australia named after the first English captain to have charted the East Coast. He was killed in Hawaii by the natives there. That was in the 18th century. His name was not Captain Cork.
I’m sure that it lessons many of us.
In my last post I said,
The only thing that I have to compare it with is my William Hall.
It occurs to me that maybe an explanation is in order so that folks won’t think I’m comparing apples and rhubarb. Here’s a pic of each, scaled the same. The perspective and lighting is different, as Jon C. took the picture of the Hall, but you should see that they’re very similar, other than the keys, wood, tuning slide, rings and age, lol.
I really should take a picture of the two side by side.
Its meant to be coming talasiga… silly Denny.
cork cork cork cork cork cork cork!
..But not before founding the celebrated travel agency of the same name.
“.But not before founding the celebrated travel agency of the same name.”
Captain Crook apparantly upset the locals when he arrived at an unsuitable time and after the locals had helped themselves to one of his boats, Crook not excactly famous for his social skills, tried to take the local chief hostage, this failed, whereupon the locals killed him. It´s not at all certain that he was eaten, rather it was the local custom to roast the deceased to get rid of the flesh and just save the skeleton
If I were a sailor I’d be happy if my captain’s name were Cork. A fellow like that would never sink.
Doc
Captain Cork and Able Seaman Screw.
Wow. Is that last word a verb or a noun??
Of course, there’s always the Captain Pugwash character Seaman Staines.
Roger the cabin boy!
Aye-aye, sir!
Where’s Master Mate?