Starting Prices
Professional Handmade Flutes:
Traditional Boston Style Pads: $1100.00
Straubinger pads: $1300.00
Intermediate Flutes: $900.00
Call, text or email for an appointment. Free estimates.
Starting Prices
Professional Handmade Flutes:
Traditional Boston Style Pads: $1100.00
Straubinger pads: $1300.00
Intermediate Flutes: $900.00
Call, text or email for an appointment. Free estimates.
Disassemble the entire flute, remove all old pads, felts paper connections, etc. Remove pins, clean rods and hinge tubes, oil, and assemble keys. Refit keys if necessary. Replace all pads (shim and seat). Replace materials (paper connections, felts, and cork). Clean trill and D# key corks (replace if necessary). Adjust the entire flute. Regulate spring tension. Set key heights. Replace head joint cork. Hand polish.
Straubinger overhauls may require additional mechanical work that includes precision leveling and shaping of tone holes, centering keys over tone holes, and proper fitting of pivot screws.
(Your flute will play better than new.)
Starting Prices
Professional Handmade Flutes: $375.00 (pad and cork replacement will be an extra charge)
Professional Handmade Piccolos: $375.00 (pad and cork replacement will be an extra charge)
Professional Handmade Alto Flutes: $375.00 (pad replacement will be an extra charge)
Intermediate Flutes: $325.00
Intermediate Piccolos: $325.00
Intermediate Alto Flutes: $325.00
Call, text or email for an appointment. Free estimates.
Recommended yearly maintenance to prolong the life of your mechanism and maintain stable padding.
Disassemble the entire flute, remove pins, clean rods and hinge tubes, oil, and assemble keys. Shim, reseat, and adjust pads as necessary. Regulate spring tension and key heights. Check/replace the head cork. Hand polish.
Pad and/or head joint cork replacement will be an extra charge.
Prices
For all flutes or piccolos, an estimate is required.
Call, text or email for an appointment. Free estimates.
This service can include shimming individual pad leaks, fixing leaks in pairs of keys, setting key heights, and/or head joint cork placement.