Eastar Closed Hole 16 Keys Flute for Beginner Kids Student with Cleaning Kit, Stand, Case, Gloves, Tuning Rod, Nickel, EFL-1

Beautiful flute with a fantastic sound. Absolutely great bang for your buck. Comes with everything you need as a beginner

It’s a good flute to star learn ✨

This is a good flute for someone who is learning and in beginning to play the flute. Got it for my 6th grader and she already played for couple years. The warranty is also available and good to have it, in case anything goes wrong. So far, we like it.

I have this flute. It is really pretty and sounds great. The price is a plus for beginners. Many start out enthusiastic, and six months later quit. I have Sky Blue finish and it is as pretty as when I bought it in 2022. Eastar flutes are made in Elkhart, Indiana USA.

UPDATE: Nearly three months in...I finally broke down and bought myself a Gemeinhardt 3OB because after three months, I had a lot of trouble with certain notes (mid E, F, A, and high C). I had watched several videos that said often, beginners on cheap flutes quit, thinking that they are at fault for the lack of quality. I'm here to tell you... it's absolutely true. So - still 5 stars, still worth it for a beginner, still stand by my original review, but know that once you really start to understand how hard you're working to produce good tone, it may be time to move up into something better. Eastar's flute will have a place in my heart as the start of a great adventure, but after three months, five days a week, one hour a day... I finally had to move up and now? I've got a tone like butter... (or at least beginner butter. Ha ha ha!)Original Post:... I'm still playing it and enjoying it. A few things I'll touch on, which don't make this flute less than five stars, but are considerations for anyone wanting to buy a flute.1) If you are acidic, (like me and my wit - ahahahahahaha), expect this thing to begin to tarnish within two weeks (playing ~5 days a week). After nearly a month, the point where my left hand index finger holds the flute is black, the 4th finger key is black, and tarnish is showing up on my lip plate and other contact points and keys. Flutes do tarnish, and it doesn't affect the sound, but it's something to keep in mind as the price of this flute costs less than it will cost to get the tarnish removed. (And yep, I clean it after every use - inside and out.)2) It is a very bright and brassy sound. This isn't a mellow flute, for that, you're going to have to up your price point significantly. I don't think less of it for that simply because... I got a flute for 75 bucks.3) It's 75 bucks. Don't think you're going to get a $3000 sound out of it, or even a $300 one for that matter (though watching a professional play this flute on a YouTube video did make it sound maybe $200-ish). Make your peace now. It is fantastic for adults (like me) who are wanting to try out the flute to see if it's an instrument they'd like to continue. It seems like it'd be stellar for elementary school students (4th-5th grade) who are starting out as well. But - if it breaks, you're going to be buying a new one, as the price to repair it will be over the price to just buy another one to start out.So why five stars? Because I was ready for a $75 dollar instrument. That said, it impressed me with the workmanship. It is actually pretty solidly built, which is great. It comes with everything you're going to need to take care of it. It comes with a stand. It even comes with a pair of gloves so while you're cleaning it, you're not just getting fingerprints all over it again. It has a decent sound and, hey, did I mention it's $75 dollars? It is well worth that price. If you're on the fence, go for it. You won't be disappointed.

This review is specifically for the EFL-2 open/closed hole flute with silver plating, as I don't know if the nickel-plated EFL-1 has the same quality control issues.The first flute I received couldn't be properly assembled, as the fit between the body and the foot joint was too tight. The only way to grip it tightly enough to fully connect the two pieces would have been to wrap my hand around the entire foot joint, keys and all, which would likely damage the keys, rods, etc. Since I couldn't even get it halfway together otherwise, it was pretty much unplayable, especially since it left the foot joint precariously close to just falling off.However, Eastar as a seller was great to work with to get a replacement. This was a painless process, and they were eager to help.Unfortunately, while the replacement flute they sent would go together the way it should, a small piece of cork padding was coming loose from the mechanism that presses down the front G# key when the F key is pressed, leaving such a gap that the G# key wouldn't close the tone hole, which left the F key basically nonfunctional. While I might have been able to reattach the cork padding if I'd had the appropriate, durable adhesive, I didn't want to risk getting any on nearby key pads, since I'm definitely not a flute repair specialist, and even the tiniest goof would have also left the flute unplayable (concert flutes are very delicate and easy to mess up just by their nature).So, I returned this one as well for a refund. Two flutes in a row exhibiting such seemingly minor issues that actually rendered the instruments useless leads me to believe there are quality control issues that need to be sorted out before these particular flutes can be a worthwhile purchase. Until Eastar or the company from which it buys these flutes figures out how to ensure every flute that leaves the factory is properly manufactured, assembled and otherwise prepared for shipment/sale, I can't recommend them, not even at this price, because it doesn't matter how affordable an instrument is if it will serve as nothing more than a tchotchke to decorate a room.However, perhaps others will have better luck with this model than I did, and at least Eastar is willing to work to try to make things right when customers receive defective instruments. As a seller, I rate them highly. This particular product, though, not so much.

It’s a beautiful instrument with a beautiful sound… if it comes well adjusted. It’s my first time on an open holed flute so at first I simply figured it was me but then I put the plugs in and it still didn’t work, still trying to fix it, just know if I can’t fix it my rate will be lower. Thankfully I’ve been playing flute since 6th grade (I’ll be a senior this year) but if you don’t know your way around a flute it’s gonna suck, you’d might as well just get the expensive Marshall music flute.