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My Casey Burns Boxwood Rudall

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Here are a couple of photos of my new (to me) Casey Burns Boxwood Rudall. I LOVE this flute.

Here you can see the glowing orange undertones of the beautiful boxwood in the end cap:
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Here's the entire flute:
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Here you can see the wood grain and one of the three little knots. I like these kinds of imperfections:
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I love how easy it is to play and the clear, sweet tone.

Here's a link to the set where I have all the photos I took of this flute: http://flickr.com/photos/dianesoini/tags/boxwood/

Here's a clip: Smash the Windows Remember, I am a beginner. My relative skill should not reflect poorly on the flute in any way! It's a fabulous instrument.
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Very tasty, Diane. Lucky/sensible lass! Now we just want to hear it!
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An updated photo of my flutes. Top to bottom:

Olwell rosewood Rottenburgh traverso A415
Cameron boxwood Grenser traverso A415 (has A440 midsection too)
von Huene Grenser traverso A415 (has A440 midsection)
Sweet traverso A415 (has A440 midsection)
Aulos matte black traverso A440
Sweet rosewood 1-key Irish flute
Noy boxwood 1-key small-holed Irish flute
Bleazey boxwood Rudall-style
Olwell small-holed (Rudall) boxwood, has Eflat midsections
Sweet G rosewood
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CB Boxwood Rudall

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Diane-Nice choice. Congrats and good luck with it.
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Pratten's old and new...
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I broke out some of my flute collection today, (rainyday schedule)
a work in progress...
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Jon, that's not fair! Very pretty, though - the velvet curtain, I mean (NOT!) :D . Can't let you get away with not telling us what they all are, though.
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jemtheflute wrote:Can't let you get away with not telling us what they all are, though.
Second that.

Lovely collection!
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Jon C. wrote:I broke out some of my flute collection today, (rainyday schedule)
a work in progress...
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Okay, I think I got all the names...
From the left to right:
1. Mahillon
2. William Henry Potter
3. Goulding D'Almaine
4. Henry Hastrick
5. Unbranded Clementi
6. Unbranded late French
7. Gerock & Wolf
8. Francis Fentum
9. Francis Fentum
10. Francis Fentum
11. Blackman
12. Lyon & Healy
13. Clementi & Co.
14. HY Potter
15. Butler
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you must be the happiest man on this forum.......(was going to say, on earth, but one cannot be sure, can one?)
what treasures you have got! may they inspire your flutemaking :)

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Since I mentioned on another thread that I would post some pics of my late C19th (1856-1912 bracket for form of the firm's name) 12-key with low B foot by Fratelli e Cugino Rampone of Milan, here they are. I'm sorry they aren't all crisply in focus - they are done with my 3mp phone-cam and my patience doesn't always extend to getting them all spot on - nor my deficient vision!

EDIT: Oh yeah, and just to grunge folk off a bit, I paid £120-ish incl P&P for it off eBay in September 2006. I'd guess from its looks most viewers just dismissed it as another "Nach Meyer". Just goes to show!

And here is a clip of it playing to accompany a perusal - Lord Inchiquin

Flute & Case (closed)
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Flute & Case (open)
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Flute - top side
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Flute - side view
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Flute - underside
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Crown end
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Embouchure detail (the filled crack is on the near side when playing)
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Barrel
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Upper body - stamp & E trill-key
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L Hand holes - upper body
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R Hand holes - lower body
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Foot - view 1
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Foot - view 2
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Foot - view 3
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I've had one person contact me to say that the pictures I've posted in the previous entry are not visible to him - please could anyone else viewing this thread let me know if they can see them OK? I'm using a host service I haven't used before due to upload difficulties with my former host - and the pics show fine for me, but if more than one or two folk are finding problems, I'll have to reconsider.......
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they are working fine for me :)
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They work fine for me here. Lovely flute! Are the low keys pewter plugs?
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Post by jemtheflute »

Thanks guys. Guess that deals with that issue.

Yes, the low C#, C and B keys have pewter plugs - not very common on German (in the broadest sense of the term - this is a German looking, Italian version of an Austrian design..... :o) style flutes - guess the Italians must have liked them. They are rather fun with their little "coolies hat" German Silver tops - and they work very well too, and are less clacky than many pewter-plug keys (like my R&R's!).
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