A solid silver flute from the “Golden Era” at Haynes.
Serial number is 39,XXX, hand-made at the Boston William S. Haynes workshop in 1972.
Soldered tone-holes, open (French) keywork to low B, inline G.
We measure the silver tube as .014 inches.
Embouchure measures 9.8 X 12.1 mm, "slightly square".
Sounding length is 636 mm, the flute plays very well at 440 pitch.
Original pad retainers.
Case is original, perfect condition.
Total weight is 418 grams.
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I spent a few minutes over the week-end, doing just a short tooting on it. Yesterday afternoon I gave the flute a better work-out, an hour or better. I did a proper comparison with it and with our “Carolyn” Haynes ( #30,297) that’s described on our rare-flutes web site.
The two instruments should be almost identical, but it’s not the case. Number 39,XXX has a very clean voice and a strong lower register that’s most fetching. Keeping in mind the 440 (not 442) pitch, I found the intonation to be superb.
This particular instrument came to us exactly as we like to find them: that means tarnished, needing to be cleaned and lightly polished. Having done as much, we’ve replaced all pads and corks and now give it our top recommendation.
Simply said, it’s a good example of a “Golden Age” hand-made Haynes that’s 100% “made in America”. And yes, it has our 24 month warranty. Recommended!
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$5,350.00Price
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