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JButky wrote: Silver plated...

Thanks for letting me know. I'm still new to the whole buying flutes deal.

Okay, I wasn't sure about gold plating on a silver plated instrument. The guy who sold it to us made the mistake of falsely advertising it, he was okay with giving us our money back. Since then my parents and I found a Sonaré SF-5000. It has a solid silver headjoint, B-foot, split E mechanism and it...

I recently put Gemeinhardt 3b flute with a gold-plated lip plate on layaway believing that the head was solid silver, but I'm starting to second guess myself and I think it's only silver plated. Would they put a gold lip plate on a silver plated flute? It's really nice. Please respond, I'm freaking ...