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It has all of the pads and can be played, if you know how. Vintage Artley Flute in Brown Case - $75 (Irmo).
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Great price for a nearly new Artley flute and piccolo combination.999.00. Includes matching Artley silver plated piccolo. Here is a Demo Artley 15-0 flute featuring open holes, low B foot and solid silver head joint. Artley Flute And Piccolo Combo - $999 (Neighborhood Of The Arts).But also a nice tone.Nice flute with case. One thing, the wilkins model is not the same as a Artley 7-0 I also play a artly 7-0 and this flute feels different in fingering. My old teacher told me that you must fall in love with your instrument. Buy a flute or other instrument where you have some feels with it. And the only thing what means is if the flute suits you.
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So when you ever have a opportunity to play on a overhauled wilkins flute, do it. And I think when people are talking about instruments they will take over meanings of other posts (including mine perhaps).
#Artley flute b foot professional
But for the one who likes a good made professional flute it is a opportunity to buy a relative cheap second hand flute and make a sound like a powell flute. I know that the market price for this flute is low, I think to low. And it seems that for big hands the flute is more suitable. But this wilkins flute has a lot of potential in tone. I also played muramatsu and other brands. I normally play on a sankyo silver sonic. The body and the applicature feels very solid. My flute is all silver and I think also silver closed holes. The flute has beautiful dark tones in the lower register and the higher register is also colorfull, not sharp. I can tell everyone that my experience with the wiklins model is very very good. They say that the headjoints are bad etc etc. Maybe because the value is not like a powell, muramatsu, sankyo etc. I read on several boards that these flutes are not so good. I want to tell you something about a wilkins flute. You get something, the non-profit gets something, and perhaps a needy students gets something (a flute). That would give you a donation value of perhaps $300-$500 based upon eBay market prices. So, you could get maybe a $100 or so salvage value from the silver, but if you don't want to try to sell it as a flute, rather than scrapping it for salvage value, why not consider donating it to a charitable organization who could themselves sell it in thrift store or perhaps give to a needy family with a child who wants to play flute? Then, you could take a tax deduction for a donation to a non-profit organization. A salvage firm will not pay that much because they have to separate out the non-silver parts and they have to make a profit, so I would guess they would probably pay only about half the selling price of silver, so lets say that comes to $8.50 per ounce. Today, the selling price of silver is about $17 per ounce. Let's assume that the Wilkins is coin silver (since it is not marked as sterling). So the remaining parts of the flute which are silver probably weigh a total of 16 - 3 -1 - 1= 11 or maybe 12 ounces. Of that 16 ounces, there are steel rods (key shafts which may weigh about 2-3 ounces, the head cork probably weighs an ounce or so, and the pads add another ounce. On average, a flute weighs about 1 pound or 16 ounces. So lets calculate the estimated salvage value of the flute. I'm not sure about the silver % in the Wilkins, but it may be coin silver which at best may be 90% silver. Usually (but not always), sterling silver flutes are stamped "Sterling Silver". At best, if it's sterling silver, that is 92.5% silver. However, "solid silver" flutes are not 100% silver. The Artley Wilkins flute is a silver flute (not plated like a student model).