Don't be too hasty now...we bought our daughter a flute from the same source just before Christmas to replace the one she'd sold in a fit of pique as a teenager. I doubt James Galway wouldplay it, but she seems perfectly happy with it...and she's gotsome of those numbers that comeafter the instruments name... It sounds fine to me..but I have stood next to the speakers in a ceilidh band for 21 years