hi folks, i just want to know if anybody is willing to sell there CB folk flute if they have one. or, please tell me how they play if you have ever played one. i am still looking for a good low cost irish flute, so if you have any please give me some suggestions where to look. thank you.
I really enjoy my Folk Flute. I don’t think there is a nicer wooden flute at that price point. It’s easy to play and has a beautiful sound. I have the small-hand version. I won’t be selling soon…at least until I can find an amazing deal on an Ergo Standard in Mopane with rings and slide.
Keep looking. It’s worth it.
If you’re not set on a wood flute, I also like the current M&E polymer. It’s louder than the Folk Flute. I alternate between them. The Folk Flute is my Me flute (when I’m playing for Me) and the M&E is my Them flute(for when I need more volume).
You can find a used one around here pretty regularly for around $300.
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=49071
Keep up the search!
Sorry, you ain’t getting mine, either. I have the standard ergo fingering set-up, it’s easy for me to reach all the holes and the mopane wood is beautiful stuff. Unfortunately, he’s not going to be making the Folk Flute in this wood much longer (the price of the wood has shot up) so if you want one in mopane, act now.
Well, what wood is he going to be switching to ~ it seems a shame, I love my mopane flute, it’s gorgeous and has a beautiful mellow tone. (or is it just me, the player?!?!?!?) heehee
M
Casey Burns tells what the new wood is on his folk flute web page, found here:
http://www.caseyburnsflutes.com/ff.php
-Casey
Here’s the notice he’s put up on his website:
“Please note: Sometime in the near future, I will be no longer be using Mopane wood for Folk Flutes. I will be making these out of a wood called Pau Ferro, which has very similar acoustical properties as Mopane. In the last few years Mopane has been most unfortunately overharvested for uses other than wind instruments and the governments have imposed harvesting quotas. The price for Mopane wood is expected to exceed blackwood, assuming it is even available. Thus I eventually want to reserve what Mopane I currently have in stock for my other more expensive flute models. The current batch is still in Mopane. (April 8, 2007)”
He told me when I visited his shop last month that Chinese jade carvers have run out of jade and that they are switching to mopane as a raw material.
And Dixie, it is no doubt a combination of flute and player!
Interesting. I just googled “pau ferro” and came up with a guitar website that said the main drawback to the timber (Machaerium scleroxylon) is that it causes allergic reactions in 15% of the population.
And that’s when it’s a guitar, I guess. Imagine when people start kissing it!
Stuart
sweetheart cherry is WAY better and less money
yea, i just sold one on ebay
well i guess you did not like it-----was it you or your wife that sold it -if it is the one i was thinking about
it was me, i did like it, it just wasnt the one for me. just like if this CB flute isnt the one for me, then i will try to sell that as well..
i am nikalina-,my ebay name anyway —i was talking to you -for some reason i thought i was talking to a jill------most pleasant talk though–very honest-that was a nice flute just missed the bid–
I just noticed one advertised on the whistle forum - a blackwood CB for $500
That’s Greenspiderweb’s (Barry). Great deal! If I wasn’t just settling into my own Burns flute, I’d jump at it.
Barry’s a great guy to deal with, and Casey makes an excellent flute – the one i have is really easy to play, very solid and responsive.
If I had $500 extra, I’d have jumped on it two weeks back, when he posted it. 