On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:48:17 +1000, rod cameron <rcameron@...> wrote:

> Hello, Jean-François!
>
> Thank you for showing us this flute sale reference!
>
> You and I, and others here, will note this Monzani's similarity with
> the flutes of John Rose, of Edinburgh, when he worked alone, before
> his move to London and association with Rudal. Who was working in the
> style of whom. would be interesting to have comment on. Do I remember
> Terry commenting something on this?

Indeed Rod, I have a bit on the topic at:

http://www.mcgee-flutes.com/RoseB4Rudall.htm

> The flute offered on eBay by
> Monzani does not have the 'crisp' engineering seen in his later
> flutes, and so is even closer looking to the John Rose housed in the
> Edinburgh Reid Collection particularly in key design. As an aside, I
> would say the seller is optimistic.

I understand this seller has advertised a number of flutes recently at
$10,000. It's been suggested elsewhere that he doesn't really expect to
sell the instrument via Ebay, but is using Ebay as free advertising. If
so, I guess we would expect it to dissappear suddenly.

Terry
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