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Having a little fun with an Olwell cane flute.
Released today on Bandcamp:

https://jonathanmilton.bandcamp.com/track/p-joes

Great, I'll look him up. I enjoyed reading your blog! Great stuff there. Salud! Great advices Jonathan, I like this one "Play with heart, stop thinking", this is exactly my vision of trad music. I can see you are from Austin, I have a friend from there, Rob Lifford, he plays mandolin and b...

Here are a few ideas on Irish flute playing with the early learner in mind.

I hope it helps!

Sláinte,

The flute is sold. Thanks for your interest.

Key of D, delrin, in-line holes, screw-adjustable cork, vinyl pouch.
Powerful flute and with great tone and great for travel!
$282 US, shipping included if w/i contiguous US.

Made by Sebastien Villoing (Paris) Bought in approximately 2012. R&R derived, but with improvements such as larger holes under keys (for more uniform volume and strength of keyed notes), very slightly offset third and sixth open holes, a polymer stopper (improved tone), and slightly softened edg...

Price reduced to $1700 USD.

Bought new in approximately 2012. R&R derived, but with improvements such as larger holes under keys (for more uniform volume and strength of keyed notes), very slightly offset third and sixth open holes, a polymer stopper (improved tone), and slightly softened edges on open holes for less resis...

Nice looking flute!

For those interested, the Austin Piper's Hang will be meeting Sunday, June 8th, 5 pm:

http://tradconnect.com/group/aupc/forum ... -fiddler-s

But of course!

I really liked the phragmites, but it sounded like they were mic'd closer than the others, as you said. Do they seem more powerful in person?

Would there be any lurking piperists in the Austin area? If so, you might want to know that there's a new meetup group, and our next session is this coming Sunday, April 20. Please PM for details.

Cheers

Thanks for posting all this info, Lorenzo. It's getting to be good weather for hiking; I'm hoping to find some good twigs to experiment with in the next week or so.

Lovely