Sky C Flute Set with Lightweight Case, Cleaning Rod, and Screwdriver

Donal M.: Has a beautiful tone. Well crafted. I love it!

United States on Oct 29, 2022

Michelle526Michelle526: I'm a teacher and performer and I bought this to have for young students to try or borrow when a straight head joint is too long for them. This has both a straight and curved head. I found the spring tension on the keys was too heavy for a small child, but I have a repair background so that was an easy adjustment to make. The pads are very high quality. There was one small leak on the F pad, which I fixed. The flute plays well, nice tone, and the intonation is pretty good: better on the straight head, which is to be expected. Two problems: the ad is a bit misleading: it DOES come with the accessories listed, but it is NOT in a soft case with room for those accessories. (I bought a separate case cover for that). It's a hard shell case with no handle, and no room for even the cleaning rod. Inside the case, there is no foam blocking to hold the curved head joint in place, so it moved around quite a bit during transport and dented the curved head, which I also repaired. I've made some straps out of velcro (see photo) and now it doesn't move. For the price, this is a very nice instrument. I wouldn't expect it to last for years and years, but with proper...

United States on Aug 14, 2019

SMH: It works great for my 8 year old. The sound might not pass professional teachers' standards though. One of the teachers even told us to replace it after 3 months (it might go out of tune etc). But we have it for 6 months now and the current teacher think it's fine, she even suggested us to resell it so other smaller kids can benefit from it. Initially one of the joints was too tight, we had to have it adjusted. One of the soft key pads fell but I was able to glue it back. One key popped but I was also able to fix it with small screwdriver. I was going to give it a 4-start for those issues, but consider the price and the problems are not major, I gave it a 5. All in all, it's a great budget instrument to start for younger kids. Especially when you just want to let them try before the more expensive investment.

By the way, the stand is flimsy, and it's hard to put the flute on, so we don't use it.

United States on Mar 15, 2018

Amazon Customer: I purchased this for my 11yr old daughter- who wasn't sure which to choose, pink with silver keys or pink with gold. She finally picked the gold and we both hoped it didn't look too gaudy. Its really pretty and she was so happy. She is getting a good sound out of it too. The case it comes in is nice and professional looking- all round she is very happy.
Shipping prompt too- came earlier than expected. Many thanks

United States on Mar 14, 2017

Rik W.: I bought this as a lark - I just like the color green, and thought it would "pop" onstage. Of course, for the price, I was wondering if all the keys would be in the right place.
Well, I got it, and opened it, and was impressed immediately. It comes in a nice, lightweight carry-case, with a shoulder strap provided. The shoulder strap fastens over the case, instead of "around" it; I assume this is to prevent it from opening if you forget to zip the case. Nice thought.
I opened it, and found the flute carefully wrapped, and then enclosed in plastic. I unwrapped it, and noticed that the color of the flute actually matched the advertised color! It's a beautiful green (did I mention that green is my favorite color?); the tenons are not colored, which is OK, because who sees the tenons?
It was provided with a cloth (polishing), and a screwdriver (not sure what I'm supposed to do with that, especially as it arrived in fine working condition).
So, I checked the position of the cork with the provided plastic cleaning rod, and it looked to be in the proper position. So, I put it together, ran through some warm-up/long tones, turned on the tuner, and,...

United States on Mar 01, 2017