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Hi everyone, A recent restoration; the head joint was not salvagable, due to someone trying to improve the embouchure hole... I decided to make the new head unlined, and make the chimney a little deeper, the original had a thinned head, with a very low chimney. The results were a nice tone! My embou...

I am selling a anon. unstamped R&R design antique flute with nickel rings and keys, plays down to C clear strong tone. I think might have been made in Wylde's shop, I have seen enough of them over the years, has the same design foot. I made a new cocuswood unlined head joint for it, giving it a ...

Wow what a beauty!

Holmes wrote:Try putting some grease on the tenons and tuning slide oil on the slide after checking that the stopper/cork is in the correct position. Could the stopper be dry too?

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He says that he has a strong Bottom D...

Burble...

Sounds interesting Casey! Sometime if you could measure the starting bore in the upper section, some of the RRC flute were 19mm at the start of the bore. I am working on one right now, where I have to replace the upper section. But yours sounds pretty custom, with the cut outs, Nicholson's Improved ...

jemtheflute wrote:

Jon C. wrote:Nice flute, I would have loved to score this! It would be interesting what is stamped on the foot, looks like a Wyld made Rudall foot to me.

That's Wylde!
Don't they all, Jon?

Most, but not all...

Nice flute, I would have loved to score this! It would be interesting what is stamped on the foot, looks like a Wyld made Rudall foot to me.

Still available...

Pending purchase...

I might add, it is a real honker! You can rattle the rafters with it...

I am selling a flute made in the late 19 century, cocuswood and 8 nickel keys. The flute has a cylindrical bore rather then conical, in very good 440hz tuning with the French hidden slide pulled out about 3/8”. All the keys function well, it was restored a couple of years ago, a repaired lower tenon...

I am selling a R&R style flute from the 1850's, George French used to make flutes for R&R but then struck out on his own. The keywork is Nickel "German Silver" and the castings were not very good, he probably didn't have much start up capitol when he started making them, similar to...

I have about 40 in my shop, so I keep the humidity around 50% and use a humidifier in the summer...

Windward flutes are using Canadian Maple, I had a chance to check them out, very nice! http://www.windwardflutes.com/