| Thanks for all the replies, folks. Alan, after checking out the site you showed me I can assure you that this particular flugel does not have the horizontal slides such as shown there. It is "regular" with vertical slides.
Noel, thanks for your input. You pretty much confirmed what I suspected. When the owner asked me about it (maybe he was thinking I'd buy it, maybe not... he knows I have a Jupiter flugel since we played the flugel duet from Finlandia), I was thinking that the only people who "might" give him what he's thinking he'd get would be a serious collector.
Jo, thanks for your input as well. Brass banding is definitely NOT as common in Canada as it is in Oz; although we have a few (and a couple of them are darn fine ones... Hannaford Street Silver Band being but one) the only chance I think he has of finding a serious player who wants it is going to be to hang it up in Ebay and see what shakes out of the tree. What with all the REALLY GOOD flugels like Kanstul, Lawler, Conn, & Yamaha hanging about and the GREAT flugel that Eclipse now has I think it's going to be a hard sell for him. But he can afford it, he's a lawyer. |