Brian, your friend has shown you a good way of testing the DEMONSTRATOR, rather than the flute. A capable player can make pretty well any flute play evenly.

And the world`s best flute, if it seriously needed even straight forward adjusting, would fail this test.

I`m sure you will love your Yamaha. Yamaha make great student flutes. Most people who rave about other student makes here, probably have never compared with a well-adjusted Yamaha.