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Professionally configured standard flutes, alto flutes, and piccolos


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Eppler Flute Company Models and Prices

Neil Lukas/Acme Silver - silver flute
Eppler silver flute with wooden headjoint:
solid silver mechanism; without adjusting screws

Standard Model

 

Our instruments combine all the features and specifications favored by a majority of our clients who play in symphony orchestras, teach and perform professionally.

Our special silencing and exclusive hand-finishing make Eppler flutes feel and play like other flutes costing more than twice as much.

Silver C flutes range in price from $5,985.00 to $6,985.00 and have the following in common:

All of our flutes come with:
  • French style case.
  • Padded, zipper pocket case cover with handle.
  • Custommade rosewood swab.

 
Original dies, masters, and silver footjoint
key cups produced at Eppler Flute Company in 1980.
flute key masters





"I purchased one of your flutes about 13 years ago.
My flute has been just wonderful.
My father talked with you a lot in working out the
details of the flute. I can still remember the day
it arrived as being so exciting--to be able to try
it out for the first time. It's gotten
lots of use since then and I play it often.
And thanks for the rose that you engraved
on the head piece. It makes it an even more
special instrument and reminds me of the exciting
time when it was being built. Good luck with everything!!"
--Clancy Scheid (Nov 2005)

robert weyrick/image perspective--silver flute with wood headjoint
Eppler silver flute with wood headjoint

  Eppler flute barrel

Flute Prices

  
Silver headjoint model with 14 k gold riser: $7,485.00 
Same model, but with African blackwood (grenadilla) wooden headjoint: $7,985.00 
   

Options

  
Split E, in-line mechanism $500.00 
Split E, offset mechanism $450.00 
D# roller $120.00 
Low C# roller $120.00 
Special ergonomic mechanism for small hands approx $950 - $1450 


Prices and specifications subject to change without notice.
The pricing of Eppler wood headjoints is confirmed at the time of order.
These prices are quoted in US dollars. Any duty costs are the responsibility of the purchaser.
  
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«I have just purchased an Eppler flute from Carolyn Nussbaum Flute Co. in Dallas, Texas. It is an exquisite instrument and plays beautifully. I tried ten other flutes (all new) but was most pleased with the Eppler, as were the people whom I had brought to help listen.» --Megan Williams, student, Dallas, Texas

Special Alto Flute

One of the only alto flutes in the world with:

  • a low F# footjoint (with gizmo key).
  • G# trill key (comparable to a C# trill key on the C flute).

Price available on request.


The Eppler Piccolo

This unusual instrument is truly a miniature flute with a cylindrical bore.

Standard features of the Eppler piccolo:

  • A 442 scale.
  • A one piece grenadilla or cocuswood body to C (comparable to a C footjoint on the flute).
  • A silver headjoint-to-body tenon (in lieu of the traditional piccolo tenon).
  • A unique C# trill key.
  • A flute-style thumb key (single, not double, key cups).
  • All StraubingerTM pads.
          
 
 
 
 
A. Eppler working in the old Fifth Avenue
shop. 1980
J. Wang, Eppler working on footjoint

Options: one piece body to low B (with gizmo key).

The lower and middle octaves of the Eppler piccolo are fuller than those of the traditional piccolo. The instrument also perserves an exceptionally responsive high C but the high octave is not shrill or piercing.

Price available on request.


For all correspondence and mail orders, go to CONTACT page.
Robert Weyrick/Perspective Image--100 year old flute
Old wooden flute awaiting restoration.
See images and read description of the
complete restoration and overhaul of this flute.

1. Wood Headjoints. Flute, alto, bass, piccolo
2. Wood flutes. Models and prices. Flute restoration and repair
3. (this page) Flutes, alto flutes, piccolos
4. More photographs
5. Flute restoration: discussion, photographs "before" and "after"
6. Transcript of interview with British flutemaker Albert Cooper
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Links

American Flute Guild
National Flute Association
Seattle Flute Society
Straubinger Flutes
Directory of the Irish Flute
Lark in the Morning
A. Eppler's Bulgarian kaval site
October 27, 2007
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