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These are good points. Strangely enough I only started to think of bit-rates after I posted this last night. I played the MP3s from my cellphone in the stores where I listened to different ones. I can't rmember what software I used to get the MP3s on my phone. I tried some headphones I bought on my ...

I listen to low whistle and flute too. I have spent quite a bit of time listening to headphones and earphones in the last few days where the stores have them on display, but for anything under £30 / $45 I wasn't very impressed. My requirements for low whistle and flute are that a certain amount of r...

Thanks. I'll do just that.

OK, so it is my fault: I keep playing my Olwell flute for a minute here and there as I am doing things around the house (cooking) and I now have a problem with mould in the flute. I tried to clean it out with a rag, but it just comes back every time and it smells - particularly near the mouthpiece (...

I haven't recorded myself for a while since I haven't been playing for a while, but I think I was using the 90 degree setting and placing the mic far away from myself. That seemed to be the best way in my apartment. I guess it is difficult to know how bad the quality of the room and mic can be unles...

Thanks for the reply. I will check that site when I have more time, but the mic I am looking for does not seem to be on there. I am recording onto a Sharp Mdms702h minidisc recorder. I have used the same model over the years to record live gigs and other players so I know that isn't the issue. Howev...

A few years back I was looking to get rid of my Sony Condenser mic and came across a website run by a guy who was making his own cheap mics. I think the guy might have been in Canada, and was selling a mic that he directly tested against the Sony condenser mic. He and numerous others claimed it had ...

Hi MT Guru, well I suppose back pressure would also make a difference to volume since you need to blow harder to get the same note. My observations on this (particularly relating to Brian's playing) are that the high notes such as the high A really miss out on volume and a certain expression to the ...

As part of my effort recommit myself to playing trad music I am thinking of buying some new low whistles which I hope to finance by selling my existing low whistles. I have got a low A, low F, and a low D. I bought these from Colin Goldie about twelve years back, but never played them enough in the ...

Thanks for the advice guys. I tried today and it initially feels like going back 10 steps. The main issue is I used to play the open hole flute with a pipers grip, but have been trying to change to a Brian Finnegan type grip so that the first pads of my fingers come into contact with the holes, thus...

I have been practising with a silver flute for years, and although I still want to use it for higher register tone exercises I am thinking of changing to one of my bamboo flutes for playing tunes. Does anyone see that there might be a problem playing different flutes with regard to embouchure etc. I...

Not that I know. I just use my Sharp minidisc recorder with a Sony mic.

Acording to the New Langwill Index, Bilton used to work as Cramer's foreman, then later went to work for Key, who's company was later bought out by Rudall, Rose and Carte. That's right because that is stamped on the headjoint of his flutes. I forget who he was apprenticed to though, although I did ...

I find that flute players I have seen live put the mics somewhere above eye level (or higer) so that the mic doesn't pick up the sound of their breathing. Also, In a small room I sometimes turn the mic away from me so it picks up the sound resonating around the room.

Thanks Bigdavy, it was the second link you put there for Tradschool. I spent 15 minutes searching for that the other day and couldn't find it.