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Mark, I will tell you the secret to flute playing as I learned it from Jack Coen many many years ago. The flute is the opposite of the whistle. On the whistle, to get the second octave you blow harder. On the flute, to get the second octave you actually blow softer. That's basically all he said abou...

BTW, I got this Reunion Blues leather case cover for 89 bucks on eBay for added thermal protection. It fits the Northwind cases nicely, and there's just enough room for a whistle or something. Thermal protection is great, but when the cold dry winter rolls around don't neglect the humidity retentio...

Flute owner -> flute player. It's a slippery slope, with no balky reeds to hold you back. Plus, if you don't play the thing you'll have other more nefarious folk from the waiting list waiting for you in dark alleys. They're worse than vampires with the scent of blood in the air.

Ah, just what the DC session scene needs, another flute player.

Josh is still and always in great form. Just sessioned with him the other night, actually. But he's a busy guy - traveling for his day gig, producing a new recording project with Sean McComiskey and friends, doing the family thing - so he probably doesn't have time to keep on top of things like upda...

So who usually sets the intonation of a group? The pipes? Box players? The bodhrán player? what if there isn't a fixed pitch instrument? You always tune to the instrument that has the least tuning flexibility itself. So if you're playing with an accordion or concertina, tune to them. (If you're pla...

I like the way your tone keeps going even after you remove the flute from your lips.

Terry's recent threads - and others - tell me to play deep into the flute. I agree - much better tone when you do. Particularly if I can extend that 5 minutes per day that I manage to get a more focussed tone. However, I don't necessarily read into what Terry says that one should turn the embouchur...

Five years.


Oh, sorry. I thought you meant the wait.

I do take exception, however, with your quoted statement above about the naming of the key of a flute. For a simple-system, conical-bore, fully-keyed low D flute, with all six of the standard holes covered with the index, middle, and ring fingers of both hands, the note that plays is a D. The flute...

I talked this evening to a professional flautist who plays in pit orchestras for Broadway shows. He confided in me that he has the copyist transcribe all of the bamboo/pvc flute parts so that they are written in D regardless of the actual notes that the flutes are sounding. This is the traditional ...

The Fliuit book doesn't seem like it stands alone without a teacher. There is no such thing as a flute tutorial book that can stand alone without a teacher, or at least without access to a real, live flute player to interpret what's in the book. (And I mean someone who can already play the flute.) ...

Donegal. For some reason, I'm thinking they call it "doubling" or "reversing." Not much of a concertina tradition in Donegal, though, or even a box tradition - outside of Dermot Byrne.

We recently discovered that also Pat Olwell has phone no. and address inside his own flute case and he is very happy about it!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: So I guess now the answer to the constant query "How do I contact Pat Olwell?" is "First, find his flute case. Then look i...

Nope, I've never given a thought to cleaning my case, Cathy. I guess I'm just not much on cleanliness when it comes to flutes. My cleaning rag is a formerly white handkerchief that's now the color of a nice French onion soup, and when I picked up the Rudall and Rose flute that Patrick Olwell restore...