McCarty Unofficial Tour-Flute Review Thread

[Rob Sharer]

VD, you obviously have the gift of hyperbole, but no one is really expecting this thing to be a gold-plated Olwell. I do, however, expect MUCH more from a flute with an asking price of $500, considering what else one can get for that wedge.

Everything else is just an elaboration of that point.


Rob

[voggy_dog]

VD, you obviously have the gift of hyperbole, but no one is really expecting this thing to be a gold-plated Olwell. I do, however, expect MUCH more from a flute with an asking price of $500, considering what else one can get for that wedge.

Everything else is just an elaboration of that point.


Rob

A reasonable argument. I, of course, speak from the perspective of one who paid considerably less for the flute.

[Rob Sharer]

I would say that's a good thing all right!



Rob

[Aanvil]

The Fed-Ex driver just delivered an express package....

One more Doug and you have the makings of a rather fancy stool.

[crookedtune]

I'd be careful. People with loose stools have been known to fall on their ash.

[voggy_dog]

VD, you obviously have the gift of hyperbole, but no one is really expecting this thing to be a gold-plated Olwell. I do, however, expect MUCH more from a flute with an asking price of $500, considering what else one can get for that wedge.

Everything else is just an elaboration of that point.


Rob

I would take it as a kindness if you would not refer to me by the above initials anymore.

[ImNotIrish]

VD, you obviously have the gift of hyperbole, but no one is really expecting this thing to be a gold-plated Olwell. I do, however, expect MUCH more from a flute with an asking price of $500, considering what else one can get for that wedge.

Everything else is just an elaboration of that point.


Rob

I would take it as a kindness if you would not refer to me by the above initials anymore.

What? You don't like 'Very Determined?'

[jemtheflute]

I'd be careful. People with loose stools have been known to fall on their ash.

Verbal diarrhoea?

[voggy_dog]

Oh.. you guys...

[ImNotIrish]

Oh.. you guys...

"Woof! Woof!"

[jemtheflute]

Perhaps Dr. Rob would prescribe the Edward II treatment?



Edited for stupid typo. Was sure I'd written "prescribed", not "described" - certainly meant to! I'm obviously suffering from all the bad PR round here.....

[benhall.1]

Perhaps Dr. Rob would describe the Edward II treatment?

Have you been storing that one up for two whole pages? Anyway, that would only be useful for the bore, wouldn't it?

[emmdee]

Hey Ben, who are you calling "the bore"?

m.d.

[jemtheflute]

Perhaps Dr. Rob would prescribe the Edward II treatment?

Have you been storing that one up for two whole pages? Anyway, that would only be useful for the bore, wouldn't it?

Well, I thought it apt, since we're dancing on pin-heads ..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_II_ ... Hot_Polkas

[Gordon]

We seem to have gone off the rails here.

The McCarty flute seems to be of Pakistani origin - I agree with (I think it was David/Julia?) that said just because the man has a workshop, doesn't mean he made the flute, there or anywhere.

What does seem the most possible/probable to me is that he is tweaking Pakistani flutes into reasonable tuning in his said shop, refinishing them and calling them his own. Whether he's somehow burning the holes/embouchure or just trailing glue on them, I can't say. But the truth is that much better flutes are out there for the same cost or less.

So....