Wm. S. HAYNES (BOSTON)

A solid silver flute from the “Golden Era” at Haynes.

Serial number is 38,546, hand-made at the Boston William S. Haynes workshop in 1970.

Soldered tone-holes, open (French) keywork to low B, inline G.

We measure the silver tube as .014 inches.

Embouchure measures 10.1 X 12.2 mm.

Sounding length is 636 mm, the flute plays very well at 440 pitch.

Original pad retainers.

Case is a bit newer, in good condition, showing a few scuffs.

Total weight is 435 grams.

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This superb Haynes is a recent acquisition that’s come to us from an antique dealer who, so it seems, had minimal knowledge of musical instruments.

I spent a few minutes over the week-end, doing just a short tooting on it. Yesterday afternoon I gave the flute a better work-out, an hour or better. I did a proper comparison with it ( #38,546) and with our “Carolyn” Haynes ( #30,297) that’s described on our rare-flutes web site.

The two instruments should be almost identical, but it’s not the case. Number 38,546 has a strong lower register that’s most fetching. Keeping in mind the 440 (not 442) pitch, I found the intonation to be superb.

This particular instrument came to us exactly as we like to find them: that means tarnished, needing to be cleaned and lightly polished. Having done as much, we’ve replaced all pads and corks and now give it our top recommendation.

Simply said, it’s a good example of a “Golden Age” hand-made Haynes that’s 100% “made in America”. And yes, it has our 24 month warranty. Recommended!

*** PLEASE NOTE!  The flute is being sold with B foot (one foot only).  An additional C-foot (two foot sections) is available for an extra $1650.