I played this flute for about a month and a half on my quest for the perfect flute. I bought "used A condition" from WWBW in '06. It has a solid silver head & body, silver plated keys, B foot, offset G, Cooper scale.

It is a good quality conservatory/college level flute, but nothing fancy. Its best features are its scale (intonation), response and ergos. The tone is excellent and the key action is durable, smooth and fast.

The only weak point of this flute is its headjoint. The tone is sweet but lacks flexibility and the bottom octave is a bit weak, requiring an extreme embouchure to get a big sound.

Overall, I give this flute 8 of 10 stars for intonation, quality, durability, and ease of play, where custom professional flutes would be 9s and 10s. Considering they cost 5-10x as much, the 711 is a great value.