This looks interesting:
http://cgi.ebay.com/OLD-CARVED-TUSK-HEAD-CLARINET-EBONY-CANE-WALKING-STICK_W0QQitemZ330096767274QQihZ014QQcategoryZ11681QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem
Casey
Wow!!!
That is one lovely flute.
Talk about a living remnant of another age…
If I had the money, I’d be very tempted.
–James
Clarinet? What’s the embouchure hole for? 
There’s a walking stick flute chez Doc Jones.
I lose walking sticks.
Beautiful. German flute with appendiges? I’m tempted to convert one but then I’ll have to get a matching penguin suit and top hat. Perhaps a monocle even.
You would look groovy that way!
Not German. Definitely French, as the seller lists it. Look at the keywork carefully. Truly beautiful.
Given the prices walking stick flutes can command, making some out of the occasional Nach Meyer might be a good idea. Certainly better than the lampstand option we had a thread about earlier this year! They would at least still be playable if it was done properly.
How do you play a walking stick flute? I have sticks I use for hiking. They are probably much longer than a walking stick flute. But even if I were to shorten them to hip-high, that would make for a mighty long flute with a tip at the end perfect for accidentally stabbing somebody in the eye.
Are you supposed to take them apart when you play? Or is it just a novelty.
I’ve seen all kinds of weird walking stick instruments. Even violins. Well, mostly violins actually.
Very cool,
Though I’d prefer a keyless for a walking stick. I wonder what the laws are governing ivory import into the US.
Doc
If you look at Ralph Sweet’s you will see that
there is a vent below the finger holes so that it can play,
while it is fully assembled Also, notice that the bottom section
can be lengthened so that a Bb fife is the same length as a D flute.
If you search for “Walking” in the Dayton C Miller collection, you can find many other examples of these flutes.
http://irishflutestore.com/newsite/products.php?pf=1
Bottom of the page. A good flute, apparently.
But why one would walk around with a flute/walking
stick baffles me. So one is ready for requests?
Above all, the flute is perpetually in harms way,
or in danger of being lost.
I love walking sticks. I’ve
used them for many years.
Sooner or later I lose them.
You should get it Casey, the crown is in your likeness! 
You have to wonder how a French flute ended up in Argentina, maybe it was brought there after the war, by fleeing Nazi’s?
So you ARE supposed to play it with 3 extra feet of wood sticking out to your right then. Hmm. It would be really hard to play at the lunch spot on my Sierra Club hikes. I might poke someone sitting on the boulder to my right!
Serve 'em right!
There aren’t any on at the moment, but there’s a guy regularly selling walking staff flutes on eBay lately - look nice too, but a bit short for my tastes. I like a walking staff to be my own height or an inch or two more, i.e. 6’ plus. Never saw the point in anything shorter. You can’t vault streams etc. or knock down things from trees so well with short sticks, and a full-length staff is much better for helping on steep descents. I’ve always cut my own hazel ones - no good for flutes, though.
You could make a staff where the flute is the decorative piece at the top. Then it’s not weight bearing, it’s nearer to your hand where you can protect it better, and you could simply take it off the staff when you want to play it. In fact, the staff could go inside the flute part for strength and protection for the flute. I think that would be a better design.
Different people have different definitions of walking sticks, and different walking stick flutes are made differently. I think Sweet’s flutes are maybe three feet long overall – it’s used as a cane when walking rather than as a walking stick/staff. And some walking-stick flutes are designed to be played with the end by the foot removed. It looks to me as though the one Casey linked to may not have any vent holes, in which case that foot or two at the end will have to be removed in order for the flute to be played.
Plays both ways. tried one.
You can reduce it to a mere flute
if you wish.
It wouldn’t matter, the sounding length is just to the vent hole. The balance might be weird with the long foot…
I tried a flute pogo stick for awhile.
Good for jigs!