This category includes flute made for professionals, advanced students and advanced amateurs or for any flute enthusiast who can afford a quality flute. Quality supersedes price factor and much labor, attention to details and material consideration is put into them. Mechanism is of high quality and operation is more quite and stable. Service for these flutes is done with the same technics and methods used by the manufacturer. That means padding is done by using paper/plastic shims to achieve a perfect contact of the pad with every point around the tone hole at the same time. High end flutes comes with soldered tone holes and without adjustment screws with makes servicing a bit more difficult. The difference in the padding method is responsible for 75% of the overhaul price difference when compared with student flutes. Most flutes in this category cost more than $2500.
For repair rates purposes, a flute in likely to be considered as a professional one when ANY of the following conditions are met:
- Key work is made of precious metal.
- The flute has no adjustment screws.
- The flute has soldered tone holes.
- The flute was made by one of the following manufacturers: Almeida, Altus, Arista, Brannen, Burkart, Wm. S. Haynes, Louis Lot, Mateki, Miyazawa, Moore, Muramatsu, Nagahara, Natsuki, Powell, Straubinger and most other New England flute makers.
If your flute does not belong here, look in the Student flute list. If you can't find it there, use the quote/service request form to send me an email with your flute details.
Note: This list is for reference only and is not a quote or a proposal. A binding quote/estimate will be given based on each specific case.
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