Not sure if anyone will be able to help! 15 years ago when I was but a teenager my parents bought me a new flute to replace my beginner "Evette". I still have and play it but I was wondering whether anyone would be able to help me out with what model it is...we can't find the paperwork and I wasn't sure whether there are any clues on the flute itself. When we bought it all those years ago it cost £500 so wasn't cheap. It is a Buffet, intermediate model and has a solid head..there is a serial number but I don't know how useful this will be! Thanks.

It's probably a Buffet 7000 series, if it has a solid head. As flutes go, it could be better, it could be a lot worse, in my opinion. They were/are a lot better at making clarinets!

If you get a good 7000, it won't be at all bad, though it will probably have one or two minor foibles. If it's a less good 7000 you'll probably find it hard work to play.

I had a buffet flute with solid head. it was a cooper scale. Mine was never hard to play, it served me well for 20 + years and never went wrong, think it depends at what factory they were made in. cause they were made in England then production went abroad much later on I think then quality went down hill or was it vice versa