#Artley flute headjoint

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Artley flute headjoint

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You might check around for a repad quote from another shop in Belgium. The bottom line is: If you like the instrument and were happy with it, it is probably worth getting repadded - unless it has had some major damage. See these pages for prices that some have sold for: Categories: Yamaha, Armstrong / Emerson, Gemeinhardt, Artley, Bundy. Headjoint Cork and Crown Assembly for Flutes will fit Gemeinhardt and many other brands. It is open hole with inline G, Y arms and C footjoint. Flute Headjoint Tuning Cork and Crown Assembly 29.95. This used Artley flute 12797 has a sterling silver headjoint and body with silver-plated keys. As with anything though, a flute is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. This used Selmer flute S-5044 has a silver headjoint and body with silver-plated keys. Right now on eBay there is one currently bid at $306 and two more with buy-it-now at $6000 (or best offer - definitely overpriced). On, an Artley Wilkins sold this month for $1200 USD. If your Artley Wilkins flute were restored to a good playing condition, I think it is probably worth a lot more than 300 euros. It actually was designed to be a direct competitor for Haynes, so it is NOT your typical student-level Artley. One owner- flute has been stored since 1967. Body, and Foot joints all fit together properly and the Crown is intact. It is theEtude model, which is comparable to the CF201 that Sankyo offers today.

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The quality was very good and was often considered to be on par with Haynes and Powell flutes of the same era. Silver Artley Symphony Elkhart-Ind etched at Body/Head joint Body and Foot both etched with serial number154368 Artley flutes manufactured from 1966-1967 carry the numbers 153000-185999) Head. Sterling Silver Headjoint, w/Case This is a vintage Sankyo flute (made in Japan) possibly made in the 60’s or 70’s. However, at the time, the Artley Wilkins was the top end flute made by Artley. He's right that you can buy a more modern flute that probably is easier to play in tune than than a lot of older "pro" flutes. I have a slightly different opinion than fluteguy. it's worth the 300 euros to get it in good working order. If it has sentimental value, then by all means. It would be silver plated, yes, but in terms of design and playability, it could quite possibly be a better deal.

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You could probably spend a little more money and get what is now labeled as a "student" flute, and it would probably be a considerable upgrade in terms of how it plays. it probably isn't worth much more than that. So, because of its age, the kind of flute that it is (the maker), and its state of repair.

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But, with modern advances in flute-making, many student model flutes play better than the professional high end flutes made 40 years ago. Please like and subscribe if you enjoyed this video Silver sulfide + aluminum silver + aluminum sulfide 3Ag2S + 2Al 6Ag + Al2S3. At the time it was better than student level. A solid silver "ebay-junk" flute that cost you $200 will not be nearly as good as a silver plated muramatsu that you bought used for $1000.Īnd for the time when it was made, you are right. you have to understand that solid silver does not necessarily mean quality.

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Elkhart artley flute

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In 1993, I went to India to do some press and promo on the day following the terrible Bombay bombings and, pretty much the only occupant of the Oberoi Hotel next door to the bombed Air India building, I decided on the spur of the lonely moment to try to learn to play the flute properly! My hotel room had a fax machine so I asked a music store in London to send a flute fingering chart to me and mulled over all the things I had been doing wrongly over the years. 925 silver headjoint and body with silver plated key work to keep the cost down a bit.

#ELKHART ARTLEY FLUTE TRIAL#

Trevor James, a British flute and brass technician, suggested to me a trial of the Japanese Sankyo Silversonic flute and I rather liked this compromise, being an intermediate range flute (now designated by Sankyo as the CF-301 series). I only recall using it a couple of times due to the value and my fear of breaking it! You probably didn’t either.Īlong the way I bought a better flute – a Muramatsu conservatory model. I can’t say that, with my unorthadox and primitive style of playing, that I noticed much difference. This was a decidedly better instrument and I owned three of their student models including one in (to me) exotic solid silver! All my previous flutes had been so-called nickel-silver, silver plated bodies used for the cheapest student flutes to keep costs down. This was a marching band instrument made in Elkhart, Indiana and, although robust and chunky, I managed to break all the 21 that I was to own over the next 15 years! In fact, I used to travel with a case of about 12 of them to get through a long US tour and they had bits missing, dents, ingrained dirt and were a biological hazard to anyone who touched them.ĭuring the 80s, I switched to playing Japanese made Pearl flutes having been approached by the UK distributor. The lowly Gold Seal was my only instrument until it was lost or stolen in the USA in 1969 and I found a hastily-acquired local alternative in the shape of the Artley flute. But then he would, wouldn’t he? The Man With The Golden Flute has to keep up appearances! Sir James Galway plays these days a 20 Ct gold Nagahara and, very recently, a specially-commisioned thin-walled platinum flute. It has now joined his extensive collection the very poor and distant cousin to his Muramatsus, Nagaharas, Haynes, Albert Cooper and so on. I had it cleaned and restored and he managed to get a few notes out of it. I later bought for him a hard-to-find Gold Seal for a recent birthday. I think I liked mine better than he liked his, since he is often disparaging about the poor quality of his original instrument. Also it was the first flute owned by senior classical flautist Sir James Galway. So – the Selmer Gold Seal was the first one. The rest is history and well documented elsewhere. These formed the basis of the “blues scale” and I was up and running by January of 1968 and beginning to play along live in a few songs with the embryonic Jethro Tull.īy the time we were rewarded with a residency at London’s famous Marquee club, I was playing in a more confident and strident way and old school pal Jeffrey Hammond noticed my unorthodox style and introduced me to an album by American jazzer Roland Kirk who used that same bold technique of vocalising his tunes and solos. Without an instruction book or a fingering chart, I just had to make it up as I went along and soon found a few more notes, reinforced by singing them at the same time. However, early attempts to get a note out of the damned thing proved abortive and it wasn’t until December of the year that I managed to coax a wobbly, insecure note of G out of the thing. Well – at least Eric Clapton didn’t play flute so it seemed worth a try. The second choice was harder and the only thing that caught my eye was the shiny Selmer Gold Seal student flute hanging on the wall, glistening in the sunlight.

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THE professional microphone, made in Chicago in the good old USA which began my long history of using Shure microphones and their other products to this day. Annes would allow me in exchange.Ī Shure Unidyne III was an easy choice. It all began in the summer of 1967 when I traded in my old Fender Strat for whatever Ken Watts, the music shop owner in Lytham-St. Some great, some not so great and some which are like old friends, even when I don’t play them so often any more. Over the last 51 years I have played and owned many flutes. I am often asked – what kind of flutes do you play?