Hi list

I need your help to decide on buying a Trevor James 10 IX flute.
It hAs litte used And has been tested by a professional flutist who reported it t obe fine. But I do not know this brand; Headjoint is silver. Price is 800 Euro in Europe...

Can you help? I have to reply before Tuesday...
Thnks!

I don't think that Trevor James has really caught on in the US yet, but they seem to be fairly well-regarded on the other side of the pond. Some of the top flute specialty shops in the US carry them as one of their preferred student/pre-professional lines, including Cinncinnati Fluteworks, Flute World, and JL Smith. I've not tried one myself yet. I have heard that they are made in Taiwan by the same manufacturer as Dean Yang flutes which also seem to be well-regarded. I can't verify that however. That may just be rumor.

Here's some links, for reference:

http://flutes.flutesmith.com/trevor-james-flutes.asp

http://www.fluteworld.com/Merchant/

http://www.fluteworks.com/

Have you played it yet? How does it feel to you?

I haven't worked on one, so I can't tell you the over all quality of one, but I did try and all solid silver. It sounded okay, but I
have found other brands that I sounded better to me. Note though, that I was in a small room when play testing it, so the acoustics could have been playing with my ears. The mechanims seemed pretty decent to me and it had a good response. Good luck to you!

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Does anyone know how much 800 Uroes is in American dollars?

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Oops, I mean Euros.

800.00 EUR = 962.638 USD

Today anyways. That'll probably change tomorrow.

Here's a handy-dandy currency converter: http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi

Hmmm... you could get it for less brand new.

Yes, I agree with Ninafire.

Im using Trevor James brand and it seems to working fine with me though.So i guess it should be okay. It was my teacher who ordered it for me..i think most of his students use Trevor James..it cost me about RM 1000. (note: i'm from malaysia)

Over here in the uk trevor james are quite big and are considered to be reasonably good flutes. I have a few pupils who play on various trevor james flutes. The 10x is a fair flute and the upper range flutes are quite good and over here some students use them at university level.

Thanks you all.

I know these opinions are always personal and contradictory.

Only that if I could buy it new for the same price then it it is not quite a good deal. I will check that, though everything is considerqbly more expensive in continental europe.

Being a chinese manufacture I feel less confident about it. (I did not know that).

Sorry I am writing far from home on a weird AZERTY keyword that drives me mad and I make more typos than usual...

i don't think its actually manufactured in China i've heard that its Taiwanese.

Thank you again.

Unknown_entity, I also think it's Taiwan. I tend not to make much distinction, though it may be a mistake from my part.

But I am not much interested in instruments manufactured there anyway, so I decided not to buy this particular flute.

The information I received in this Forum was very important in this decision.