Thank you, Terry!

Your writing is good, and the photography is clear. Glad you are
getting this information out there, for the common good.

Best wishes!

Rod

On Aug 29, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Terry McGee wrote:

> 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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