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The Healy Flute Company offers and quickly delivers the finest keyed and unkeyed wooden flutes, fifes, and piccolos. Choose from a variety of woods, keys, and customizatons. click here.

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For over thirty years, Skip Healy has been a renowned, Grammy-nominated performer of Irish flute and American fife music. For details on Skip Healy, his work and his music, just click here.

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Irish Flute

Hand-Chased Keywork

On a custom basis, the Healy Flute Company can provide custom, hand-tooled engraving on your keywork. Pricing depends on the pattern and how much engraving you want. Email Skip with questions.

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Open-C Keyed Flute

Featuring the same construction and quality of the rib-mounted keyed wooden flute, our Open-C model replaces the long C natural key with an open tone hole covered by the left thumb. Popular with Boehm flute players switching to simple-system instruments, the Open-C model provides a perfect C natural while providing a natural, keyless option to the long C key.

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Post-Mounted Keyed Wooden Flutes

An old favorite in the Healy Flute family! Our the new, threaded "pedestal post" design lets us set the posts into the flute body with greater strength and stability. This design also lowers the key height in relation to the flute body for easier access to the touch pieces. This increases the easy-of-use and responsiveness of the key mechanisms on your Healy flute!

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Keyless Wooden Flutes

About 60 days for standard-model keyless flutes. Customized instruments will require additional time depending on the level of customization. Payment due in full at the time of purchase. We now accept PayPal, Visa, and MasterCard. Email Skip with questions.

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Keyless Chromatic Flute (10-hole)

How would you like to get a wooden flute that offers a fully chromatic range but with no cross-fingering, half-holing, or keys? You get just that with our keyless chromatic 10-hole flute. Though it takes some time get used to dedicating each finger to a tone hole, many of our clients have taken the challenge and absolutely love this instrument.

Standard Model Pricing

Key of D   ...   $1,500
Key of Eb  ...   $1,500
Key of F    ...   $1,300 (two-piece flute)
Key of G   ...   Available by custom order only.

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Open-C Keyless Flute

Our three-piece, open-C keyless flute utilizes the exact same design and construction at the standard unkeyed flute, but with one major difference. We've replaced the cross-fingering of C naturals with an open C tone hole operated by the left thumb. This allows you to produce a perfect C natural without cross-fingering and without a long C key.

The Healy keyless open-C flute body is shown above two keyed flutes. Click the image to get a clear view of the open-C thumb hole.

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Keyless Wooden Flute (6-hole)

The three-piece, keyless wooden flute is where many of our clients get started. This sturdy, dependable flute is perfect for all forms of folk music and session playing while being versatile enough for recording and public performances. In tune across three octaves, you can play this flute as loud or quiet as you need. All of our unkeyed flutes can be upgraded with keys at any time. 

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Healy Flute Restoration Services for Antique & Much-Loved Instruments

Skip Healy has restored hundreds of antique flutes, fifes, and piccolos to museum quality. Healy is an authority on historical flute design and their makers.

If you have any concerns about the value of your instrument and how repairs might affect the historical integrity of the instrument, then please contact Skip Healy at skip@skiphealy.com.

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Wooden Flute, Fife, & Piccolo Repair

Our Repair Services

The Healy Flute Company offers extensive repair services for simple-system wooden flutes, Boehm flutes, fifes, and piccolos. Instrument repairs are priced on a per job basis with a shop time cost of $100/hour. All repairs come with a one year guarantee starting on the date that the instrument is shipped back to the customer.

When To Call a Professional

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Instrument Care & Repair

Ask ten people about the care and feeding of wooden flutes, fifes, and piccolos and you'll get ten different opinions ranging from perfectly credible to utterly absurd. If you wrote down all of the online and offline discussion about oiling wooden flutes alone, you could probably fill several large city libraries.

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Wind on the Bay

October 3-5, 2008 -- "Wind On The Bay" provides an atmosphere where players, makers, teachers, and students of traditional music can get together to learn, share, and socialize in a relaxed and comfortable setting.

Visit www.windonthebay.com for information on clinicians, classes, and concerts!

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Events

  • Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - Sunday, July 13, 2008
    2008 International Native American Flute Association (INAFA) Convention
  • Monday, August 4, 2008 - Saturday, August 9, 2008
    Queen Maeve International Summer School of Irish Music, Song, and Set Dancing
  • Saturday, September 27, 2008
    CARNEGIE HALL , New York City (yup THAT Carnegie hall) in the Weill Recital Hall
  • Friday, October 3, 2008 - Sunday, October 5, 2008
    Wind on the Bay

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