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 Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:12 am
my flutes brand new.
got it at christmas wink
my piccolo is old.
it needs pad replacing.
the key's screw keeps falling off.
*annoyed*
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Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:49 pm
I only got my currest one in June, after my Music teacher told me to upgrade, so it's still in reletivly good condition.
My old one on the other hand...
Well...
The cork on the top had gotten wet or oily... I'm not sure... But it would fall out every time I had my flute on any more then a 180 degree angle... And considdering I move when I play... It was frequent...
Now I have a beautiful Gemeinhardt 3SHB (open hole, b foot, inline G, and solid silver mouth peice)
But I already have my eve on another flute. I'm awful.
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 12:52 pm
I'm pretty embarrassed about my flute. For my grad present I told my parents to overhaul it (didn't happen). The head is pretty dented up and I have yet to replace the pads. I've been missing my 2nd trill cork for the past 4 years and occasionally a spring pops off in the middle of fast pieces. I have an open holed but my fingers are too short for an inline so I use it as a back up. People borrowed that one without asking and now it has a nasty big dent in the head. My piccolo is barely playable. It misses the F# completely.
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:45 pm
The first one I had was in very good condition when I got it in grade 7. But then as I got through junior high and onto high school, it didn't really cut it because it was very old. The one I have now is in much better condition then my first. Bought it just sometime last year. ^^
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Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:24 pm
Woo! Got a new piccolo, now it's all nice and clean. It's composite so no dents and the silver plated keys are sparkling. Doubt it will stay that way after marching season but a girl can dream.
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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:03 am
My flute is 5 years old, and only has a couple of small dents, barely noticable. I sadly don't have a piccolo, I'm lucky to have a flute. crying
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:15 am
I have two flutes. One of them I call my Marching Flute, because I use it for marching band. It has a few dents and scratches. There are severel pads that will need replacing. I have a leak in one of the keys (which totally sucks because I have a competition in a couple of hours and it sounds horrible).
My other flute I call my nice flute, because it cost me $2,195. Ya...It has very minimal scratches and sounds wonderful.
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Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 9:59 pm
My flute is in pretty good condition. It is an open-hole Artley with no B-foot. It has got some minor scratches but nothing huge that's wrong with it. There's a tiny dent on the body below where the Ab key is from where I sat on it last March. It literally bent in half. It was five days before our GMEA Evaluation (Festival), too. Our BD had to put in a call to the music shop and put a rush on it so it was finished or else I would've had to use my marching flute or worse, the school flute (nasty, nasty flute we've named Heppy C because we're sure it has some type of disease), which I had to use the day I sat on it since I didn't have my other flute. So they basically did a complete overhaul on that flute then. Replaced some pads, cleaned it, sanitized the case and had to restraighten the body which left a tiny dent there.
My piccolo is in okay shape. Its a Gemeinhardt 4SP and silver plated. I just got it 2 months ago and its used. It has had at least one previous owner who used it as a marching picc for 3 years (who we bought it from) and a couple more, I'm sure. The plating is chipped in a few places and there are some scratches on the end where the cork goes. According to the Gemeinhardt website, its about 20-something years old. One of the pads are screwed up and I'm sure I need to have it cleaned and stuff. I'm hoping that I can get it checked, cleaned, all that around the Christmas holidays.
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:41 pm
pretty good abit of rust on where it connects to last piece (sorry can't remember the name for it)
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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 3:53 pm
My flute's very new. I got it last month. It's an open hole powell sonare, and I love it 3nodding
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:25 pm
The last two keys come up about 4 times more than they should (I'm suprised it dosn't cause tuneing problems) the Eb keys hard to press down, two of the screws are loose, one is missing, too many scratchs to count, it's turning a weird yellow colour around the keys where my polishing cloth wont reach (need pipe cleaners), and a few dents.
I bought it brand new 4 years ago too. crying
But it still plays, even if it's hard to play quickly because of that pesky Eb key.
It has a tendency to 'break' for a few moments, and after fiddleing with it pointlessly for a bit work again. No clue. (It did it before our last marching competition... I was nearly in tears...)
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:49 pm
I lost my flute last year. It's a rather long and sad story I would rather not get into, but it was about four years old with some dents to the heat joint and foot joint. (That flute refused to be scratched, for some reason)
Then I got a new flute last year, it already has a major dent in the foot joint, but other than that, it's still sparkling new. I'm obsessed with polishing it.
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:30 pm
last year during marching season... we were marching on pavement practicing when i was tripped and i flew my flute flew too and someone tripped over me and rolled their knee over my headjoint into the edge of the pavement so there was a huge dent in it but its fixed cept its all scarred up crying
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 7:09 pm
bad.... mine is @ the store getting fixed nd i have this dumb school flute thats not as good as mine........ crying
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 6:57 pm
I got my flute used about 12 years ago, and it's in very poor condition right now, I can't even play it. When I get the money, I wonder if I should just buy a new flute or get my old one all fixed up.
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