MYSTERY YAMAHA FLUTE: Has anyone come across YFL-221A?

[flutego12]

OK. Found some info on it.
This is an Original.
Made in Japan. Thus the trademark brown-box packaging that comes out of Japan.
Sold in Australia, prior to being replaced by Indonesian-made models, currently YFL-221ID.

And no that is NOT my picture nor linen.

[Grasshopper]

Hello there,

My first flute, and I started playing a few years ago, was indeed a YFL-221A ("A" standing for "Advantage"). It was a rental; a six year old, unresponsive piece of junk that on even the rainiest days of the week I would have told you I loved. It came with a split E mechanism, and I was extremely reluctant to part with it- despite the fact that a very shiny YFL-211 was presented to me on my fourteenth birthday that I could call my own.

Nowadays, I still play a Yamaha, albeit a professional one with all the standard bells and whistles. The 211 was Indonesian made, mind you, but that didn't stop it from helping me to get to about Grade 8 in just under 3 years. We must never forget our roots, and I will always stick up for that dodgy thing I started out with.

This didn't really answer your question, but I hope you realise that this flute wasn't always an enigma.

Your Friendly Neighbourhood Grasshopper

[wuffeeflaute]

Hello there,

My first flute, and I started playing a few years ago, was indeed a YFL-221A ("A" standing for "Advantage"). It was a rental; a six year old, unresponsive piece of junk that on even the rainiest days of the week I would have told you I loved. It came with a split E mechanism, and I was extremely reluctant to part with it- despite the fact that a very shiny YFL-211 was presented to me on my fourteenth birthday that I could call my own.

Nowadays, I still play a Yamaha, albeit a professional one with all the standard bells and whistles. The 211 was Indonesian made, mind you, but that didn't stop it from helping me to get to about Grade 8 in just under 3 years. We must never forget our roots, and I will always stick up for that dodgy thing I started out with.

This didn't really answer your question, but I hope you realise that this flute wasn't always an enigma.

Your Friendly Neighbourhood Grasshopper

Hello friendly "Neighbourhood" (not sure where that is tho) Grasshopper.
That's interesting! No kidding. Didn't know about the Advantage.
However the YFL-221A(plural) that I know DO NOT have the Split E. None of them do. The 211s do.
Are you talking about the same flute? Incidentally, to my knowledge, the A appears only on the box, the flute itself omits the A showing just "221" on the barrel.
The 221s tho entry level are lovely instruments, as far as I know. And so are the 211s.