Question: how a Healy flute could make good travelling flute more than another? Does he make poly flutes?
He makes wooden flutes, but very strong ones (“strong enough to kill a man”, as said a post that caused all sorts of trouble in the Woodenflute list 
). Specifically, he uses metal tenons, so eliminating one of the things that could crack (the tenons). Other than that, as i said, wooden flutes travel well anyway.
I understand! Thanks Glauber! By the way why flutes with such a tuning slide are this rare? It looks good!
Anyway, I really like the look of Healy Flutes. I like there modern style.
Anybody can say anything on how they sound?
Good dog Glauber! (sorry … couldn’t resist!)
Thanks!
Woof!
I tried a Healy flute only once; it belonged to someone in the Boxwood organization. I thought it was solid, heavy and loud. Maybe a little particular with the intonation, but nothing worth calling the cops about. I’d love to have one.
The metal tenons work very nicely; they have the same feel of a modern (“silver”) flute and don’t require maintenance.
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Skip Healy prides himself on making instruments quickly. He has no waiting list because he runs his workshop as a factory, with each step done by someone using a highly specialized jig within a machine. Lovers of his flutes like their power. His flutes do not, however, have the same feel or finish as more typical, more handmade, simple system flutes.
I think we’ve drifted a bit from flute types to case types. Returning to the former…
I’ve traveled quite a bit with a Casey Burns mopane flute. It’s the very basic model with no metal hardware at all. It’s survived 3 Colorado winters now and trips to Germany and Japan as well as a few domestic trips. No problems at all. I oil the flute occasionally, but otherwise don’t take special care of it.
I would be more hesitant to treat it this way if it had a metal lined head or something like that…
Thanks to all of you for your input, but the the decision got made for me yesterday…part of my job that I forgot about was that I sometimes am so rushed that everything is left out in the car while I meet with customers. In this case, 3 hours, middle of the day in Los Angeles, and the sun was up in force. Enough that some of the toys my son left in the car got ‘soft’.
M&E wins. I can’t do that with wood. Of course I will have to find a good waitlist to get on in the meantime, so I have a traveling flute and an at home instrument 
. Hmm, this is sounding better all the time.
By the way, I’d sent Michael an email a couple days ago and no response. Has he been out? There was another thread where someone couldn’t get ahold of him also.
Thanks again!
Dave
I was going to email him as well and order one. Let us know if you reach him via email, otherwise I’ll just give him a call.