Anyone have a Boxwood Glenn Watson flute? Interested in selling? Please contact me.
Thanks.
Loren
Why a Watson? 
Berti
Loren, if what you’re looking for is a slim profile, keyless D flute with an unlined head joint, then try a Sweetheart [u]Resonance[/u] flute, in blackwood.
I got one, but without rings [u[/u]](http://www.sweetheartflute.com/Flutes/Resonance_Flute_Blkwd-lg.jpg), about two years ago, and it well plays three full octaves plus a fourth D on top!
Before I got it, Walt Sweet himself played all four Ds on it, right before my ears and eyes.
And, when Sweetheart puts rings on a flute, it’s their “best” flute.
BTW, could anybody see a quote by [u]Dale Wisely[/u]?
Cork- have you ever played a Glenn Watson flute? I am sure that Loren has had experience with Sweetheart flutes. Further, are you aware that Loren is a person with extensive experience in flute repair and that he has played more kinds of flutes than most of us have had hot dinners? While I am sure your comment is well-intended it is as if you were asking Julia Childs if she has read The Joy of Cooking.
Aside from which, I believe Loren also suffers a sensitivity somewhat to blackwood flutes, also, after his cocus reaction, so there’s a good reason to go for the boxwood. Otherwise, there was already a good deal offered on a Watson blackwood on these very fora.
Hi, Julia, and Kevin,
I do recall Loren saying that he had a bad reaction to cocus wood, but I also considered one of his earlier posts, as Denny quoted.
Loren is a good natured fellow, and I’m sure he’d take my suggestion as well intended, at least.
What I am hearing here…
I think what Loren really wants, is to find a used Watson flute in Boxwood… 
Well, I think everyone has just about covered it 
Yeah, I need Boxwood due to the Cocus, Blackwood, Rosewood, etc. allergies. Unlike most folks I am now so sensitized to these woods that even my fingers react, so even lip plates/coatings don’t work for me.
I also need a flute with a slim exterior profile to help me cope with some very significant left wrist and forearm issues that are as yet unresolved and have kept me off the flute for the last year. 
I am also fairly picky with regards to playability, tone and workmanship. Glenn makes wonderful flutes, and in Boxwood they meet all my needs. So, there you have it!
Still looking, if someone out there has one in Boxwood…
The Watson is a great flute but regarding the profile I found it had the thickest profile in the left hand area compared to other flutes I’ve owned, though I’m sure you have played more flutes than myself and can make more comparisons.
Really?!?! How strange. The only Watson I have experience with seemed to be the thinnest of all the flutes I’ve played by far, with the possible exception of a few Murray’s I’ve run across. Mind you I didn’t bother to measure various flutes for comparison, just going strictly by feel, so I could certainly be wrong. Or perhaps Glenn made a change somewhere along the way, who knows. But then your Watson was from 2007 yes? So fairly early. Anyone receive a brand new flute from Glenn recently who would care to comment?
Loren
Yes mine was made at the beginning of 2007, I’m only going by feel too, maybe it was the angle of the taper that made it feel thicker also maybe Glenn has changed his design slightly.
Best of luck finding a secondhand boxwood one, I must admit I almost ordered a boxwood instead of blackwood but lacking any real experience with boxwood played safe.
Iain
Hi Loren
Don’t know about a Watson flute but there is this Potter Boxwood flute on Ebay UK. You might need to contact the seller to see if they would ship to the US however.
There is also Goulding and co flute this one will ship worldwide.
The only other boxwood flute i could find was another Potter - in Bb I think and an asking price of $5k.
David
Hi, Loren,
Not to beat a dead horse, honestly, but the new Sweetheart, two-piece Resonance flute apparently has all of the features you seem to be looking for, slim profile, totally climatic internal tuning, all wood but with a cork lined tuning slide, your choice of offset holes or not, and, all at an attractive price. Now, it’s true that the “offered” models only come in rosewood and blackwood, but, as I know the Sweet family, I have no doubt that Ralph and Walt could have a supply of boxwood, too, just ready for a Resonance flute to your specification.
I like the older, thread-wrapped Sweetheart flutes, too, of which I have several, but the new Resonance flute is a whole new ball game.
BTW, Sweetheart Flute Company is not all that far from Boston, and “sampling” their flutes is for free.
Iian, IMO blackwood is the better choice if one can tolerate it - more focused tone, more dimensionally stable, tougher to scratch, dent, chip, break.
Davy, thanks but I simply am not into old flutes, save perhaps an original boxwood Rudall, which I most certainly couldn’t afford.
Cork, thanks for the suggestion, I am sure they are nice flutes, but not what I am looking for.
Loren
Loren, how about one of the “pseudo whitewood” Tipples? At $70 USD, I’m sure you could afford that. Yeh, I understand, that’s not what you had in mind. However, personally I think that pseudo whitewood is underrated.
Will this pseudo whitewood flatten cornfields and deafen soprano whistle and spoon players with it’s volume? I need to have the loudest flute in the galaxy you understand.
Tone wise, it must make me sound like all my favorite flute players, it will do that, yes? I am really not into practicing that much, so I require a flute made from a material which will give me the tone I want, without the need for all that pesky practice.
Loren
when you find THAT flute, will you please let me know?
berti
Loren, speaking of practice, you’re a professional athlete. What do you think of this, from another forum.
Being in the zone is a place that professional athletes value as highly as do musicians. It’s the same place. Activity without conscious direction. Almost instinctive, as Henrik says, your subconscious mind - a place where muscle memory is the guiding principle. Though as we know, muscle memory takes place in the brain and refers to the brain controlling the muscle with seemingly little conscious awareness. So you speak of an athlete who is having a spectacular day as being unconscious.
The more experience you have of being there the easier it is to get there. Talent is the ability to focus your attention on the discipline needed to implement your desire. Which is an erudite sounding way of describing > practice> . Or of saying > focused playing> . > Practice > sounds too much like work…
A german fluter is playing a keyed Watson, a few years old (or so), and it’s indeed a slim flute. Easy to hold and play, and quite light. A friend of mine plays a blackwood Cotter with six keys, which is by far the lightest and slimmest flute I ever came across…so easy to play and hold that you might think it isn’t there at all. But I don’t know if Eamonn works in boxwood. If you can get hold of an Aebi, they’re also worth a try, not as slim as the Cotter but still very easy to hold, and he works in boxwood, too (with a wait, of course), which would make everything a tad lighter. But Glen Watson certainly will be a good way to go, so good luck in finding one.