Hello! Everyone

I am a new membership in this Flute forum. I really love to play flute as well, but I am still a beginner/intermediate flute player. I am planning to buy a Wood flute for my second flute soon, but I still really don't know What Is The Best Brand Name of The Wood Flute I Should Buy, and It shouldn't be too expensive that I can handle. My Budget is not over $ 3000. Can someone help me?

Umm...Between Silver Flute and Wood Flute, which one is much better. WHY? For recommendation, Should I get Wood Flute or Silver Flute, but I really want to get Wood Flute because I really love its shape and figure. Mainly, I have never try to play Wood Flute before, so I really want to own one if I can. Can someone help? It will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you;
Bunthid or Max

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More Information : If someone can help, it will be greatly appreciated.

I really want my Wood Flute to have a great SOUND as well if it is possible, BUT HOW MUCH FOR A GREAT WOOD FLUTE COST that I have to spend. Approximately, how much it will cost for one great Wood Flute with a great sound and a great shape.
WHAT BRAND NAME that I can trust because I don't really know about wood flute at all. Please! help.

Umm...Between a great Wood flute and a great Metal flute at the same great quality, does it have any different between sound, high tone, and etc? Please! help.

Thank you very much;
Bunthid or Max ;)

If you are buying a wood flute PRIMARILY because of its "shape" and not its sound, then you can buy a cheap Chinese wood flute. There are many advertised on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Grenadilla-wood-wooden-Flute-C-foot-Flute-/150370451060?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2302c6fe74

But if you are interested in a wood flute for its sound compared to metal flutes, you are probably not advanced enough to notice a difference in sound.

Good wood flutes (or just wood headjoints) are made by Abell, Bigio, Braun, Chu, Eppler, Full Circle (Folkers&Powell), Hammig, Mancke, Powell, Sankyo, Young, and others.

However, for $3,000 I'm not sure you will find even a good used wood flute -- not to mention a new wood flute!

Hi. Welcome.

The cheapest reliable wood flute that ever came to my knoledge is the DiZhao grenadilla flute with silver plated mechanism. It's price goes under 3,000. If you want a more durable material, it would be good to consider a flute with all silver mechanism, which in case of the DiZhao would be around US$ 5.000,00, although it's not listed in their website.

Anyway, I suggest you make a research on this forum around the subjects of your interest, because there are lots of posts that could really help you as a start point.

I meant "its price"...

Okay, you want a GOOD wood flute. Then you will have to buy from the fine flutemakers such as the ones I mentioned above.

Current prices:
$11,000 and up, depending on whether you want C foot, B foot, special trill keys, split E, etc.

But as zevang said, you can get wood flutes that are of intermediate quality for $3,000. And you can also get Chinese-made flutes for even less.

YOU have to decide what YOU want in a wooden flute and how much you want to spend. And, as I said in my first response, do not expect your flute to sound much "woodier" than your silver flute UNLESS you ALREADY have fine tone quality and tone control and a mature embouchure. The wooden flute will NOT automatically sound that different if you aren't an experienced player.

Or get yourself a 6-hole Irish Flute.

Casey Burns and Skip Healy make those and they are fun to play around with but have different fingerings than the Boehm system flutes.

Sorry for the late post, but I'd like to add that perhaps adding a wood headjoint to your existing flute might be a much less expensive option. The reason for a wood flute's sound "difference" is purely because most have a conical bore. There's no reason to toss your entire flute body if you just want that type of sound.

A good professional wood headjoint can be had for about $1000-$1200 last I checked.