good suggestion, I didn't know about that, good thing to have in ones gig bag

Maybe I'm being a bit dense, but how do you play low C if you extend the tube?

You don't. The low C fingering sounds a B, so you can play low C#, and low B, but not low C. It's a compromise, but if you really only need that B once or twice, the plastic tube or silver extension could do it for you.

Call me vain, but I would rather pay the $75 to get the extension and not have a plastic tube at the end of my flute.

Personally, Kara, I feel the same way. I'd have to try to get one out of gold for cosmetic reasons, though. An interesting note...The extensions (and likely the plastic tube as well, though I can't vouch for that) can also be put on a B foot to allow a low A should you be playing a transcription or something that isn't fully within the flute's range. It will elminate your ability to play a low B, just as on a C foot, it keeps you from playing a low C in favor of the B.

Not vain at all.

I would go one step further and say the extension is more of use to those with B foot joints that want to get out a low A. :-p

Foot joint use aside if you have any desire to resell your flute in the US your better off with a B foot.

I will buy a little platinum tube, with hand engraved initials

Oh Patrick, don't buy one, you can just borrow mine.

sounds good Kara, make sure the ends are trimmed with gold, 14K of course