USPS Priority Mail shipping with signature delivery is included (USA only). It is a reliable performer with outstanding projection and articulation.Īsking price is $13,995 and sold as-is. With the improvements made to this flute, it goes beyond being your typical gold flute. Pads are in excellent shape, and the flute was recently adjusted by Gary Lewis. (This flute can be retuned to A=442 Hz using the same reversible process.) It’s incredibly stable in all registers and dynamic ranges. The result is a scale that requires very little adjustments when going from the right hand to the left hand or switching registers.
There is tremendous consistency in tonal quality in all ranges of the flute.Īs for intonation, this flute was rescaled (at A=440 Hz) by Gary Lewis using a reversible technique. Although Ian McLaughlin is a contemporary flute maker, his embouchure cut offers a sound that is much closer to the French tradition – clean, focused, and sweet with excellent articulation and response. The tone has a pleasant blend of brightness and warmth that is reminiscent of white gold flutes, which makes it ideal for both orchestral and chamber music. Sound-wise, this flute packs a punch, much more so than other gold flutes, possibly because of the platinum headjoint. The embouchure plate was later swapped with one produced by Ian McLaughlin, a flute maker in the UK. The owner also replaced the gold headjoint with a platinum one, also by Heritage. In the early years of ownership, the owner had Tom Sears convert this flute to a pinless mechanism for improved reliability and action. He passed away a while back and his estate is offering this flute for sale. This flute has had only one owner who received it as a gift from his wife. Ian McLaughlin embouchure plate and riser, silver.
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