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Nanohedron wrote:

Dragon wrote:The Druids were great flute players!

Which band? On what planet?

Who knows Nan. Perhaps they did not know what a flute was.

Just in case there are people who read this thread who actually care - here is a source about transverse flutes in Europe BC.

http://www.rogerblench.info/Ethnomusico ... 0flute.pdf

I suppose this is where I play the nitpicking pedant and point out that you can't have a European Iron Age transverse flute. They didn't exist in Europe until the Middle Ages, having traveled from an easterly direction. But if you want to be authentic, maybe you could wear a sari or something. A tr...

In true Iron Age fashion, you should make one yourself. That's what they did back then. They did not go to the Internet and ask someone else to do it. Go kill a large animal, eat the meat and then hollow out the long bones and make some holes. :D Why re-enact when you can act? LOL, that's what I sa...

Aw. Just think how many star trek fans that are out there just drooling for a Ressikan flute. Hm...perhaps a whistle maker can do a better job.

hans wrote:

Innocent Bystander wrote:

Dragon wrote: Not so say Druids today could not play one.

Sorry, my parser cannot deal with this statement. Perhaps some punctuation could help.

Not to say Druids today could not play one.

Yes yes I ment "to"

Nanohedron wrote:When I read the thread title my shoulders sagged and I actually muttered aloud, "You're kidding." Bad Dragon. Bad, naughty Dragon.

Whaaaat? Me? Naughty? Ney! The Druids were great flute players!

Hello, I do Celtic iron age reenactments and I am trying to find a flute with this scale: http://teddytourteas.blogspot.com/2012/04/malham-iron-age-pipe.html But I would like it to be a transverse (side blown) flute that looks like bone (if possible): http://homepage.eircom.net/~bronzeagehorns/image...

Now that I have your attention. Does anyone have any info about the Wilsford flute that was found near Stonehenge or the flute that was found in the Avebury stone circle? Just to make a note...these flutes pre-date the Celts in England - so, no they are not "Druid" flutes. Not so say Druid...

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And this one plays too!

Some people just don't like the flute. "You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear." --Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in a letter to his father, after being commissioned to compose flute music I say play from your heart - the ones ...

Thanks everyone!! I would love to post pics! How do I post them? This was the flute I played at Stonehenge, Avebury, and a few other places during my visit to England this past summer. I was going to bring it to Ireland with me to play at Newgrange amoung other places - but I will be there in April ...

Hello everyone, Last November I was in Galway Ireland and paid a visit to Powell & Sons Music. There I fell in love with a flute and bought it. Due to time constraints and the staff's lmited knowladge of their flute stock - I knew very little about the flute - other than I liked it. The slide jo...

Hello,

Could someone please help me get in touch with Dave Swindler? He has been though alot but I have read on this forum that he has started working on flutes again. Could you PM me his phone number?

Thanks

I have many flutes from many different makers and I have been playing them for many years. I have Native American flutes, Irish flutes, modal flutes, modern fifes and very old fifes. One of my fifes was made by a guy who got into making fifes because one if his kids wanted to learn the fife. He look...