![]() ![]() If the vendor told you it could be played at modern pitch, they lied. A longer head or having the tenon extended will be no better. Pulling the head way out may get you a chosen reference note at Concert Pitch, but the rest of the scale will be unusably distorted. There is no practical/viable/cost effective remedy for this fact. The bad news (sorry if you didn't realise this) is that, with a sounding length of 580mm, it is a pretty High Pitch instrument (above A=450) and will not be usable in ensemble at modern pitch. This places it at the cheaper end of their output, but it will still be a good quality instrument. Your flute has nickel-silver fittings which are unlikely ever to have been silver plated. always listed their timber as cocuswood (or grenadilla/blackwood when they offered that). ![]() But "rosewood" as such was not normally used for making flutes, and RC&Co. You can look all that up in old threads here and in other online resources if you're interested. Cocuswood is not botanically a rosewood (though the common woodwind timber African blackwood/grenadilla is). Rosewoods are a large group of tropical hardwoods with assorted properties and best uses in joinery etc. This looks to antiques/furniture people like a Rosewood so they call it that and the (mis)usage has become common in auctions, including eBay.
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