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Hey Guys, My girlfriend just got a fully keyed flute (some people think you need em ;) ) and asked me to help her sell her unkeyed Murray in D. It's about 8 months old and is beautiful. I'm not just saying this but if I wasn't monogamous with my Hammy (other keys aren't cheating I tell myself) I'd t...

Murphy, as far as I know there's no job openings in the moderator department. Relax and enjoy the parts of the board you like and ignore the rest. s'easy! You and s1mOn are correct but getting to the parts of the board that I like is increasingly difficult and time consuming. I'm not trying to be a...

Dale asked what could be done even about fluff even if he wanted to. So I did a bit of thinking and I thought of the view posts since last visit botton. Is there any logistical way to create a few last posts with exception button? Like type in certain names and have the forums show new posts except ...

Yes Kenny, please do! I would love to hear you play! I would like nothing more than to learn that there are more young people out there in the fleadhs playing good music. I'm just going on the ASSumption that I've heard a good representation of the caliber of music being played. If that's true, Elda...

Okay, that was once in 19 pages. How many times are you guilty? I'd like to remind you that I'm not against all fluff, just the amount of it.

I move that this thread should be locked and or maybe even deleted. Some people obviously didn't get the message... threadjacking and posting fluff on a thread that is obviously against threadjacking and posting fluff.

kenny wrote: Now if I were to extrapolate this in the way Eldarion has, would I not be justified in arriving at the exact opposite conclusion about the worth of an All Ireland title ?

Maybe, or maybe you don't share the excellence of taste that Eldarion has.

The hole thing seems to be a cross between tight piping and flute playing. I wouldn't think so. I actually had one of my piping students here, he does that sort of stuff and I try knocking it out of him because it's not suitable for the pipes. It doesn't make clean piping. Hmm, I don't know anythin...

I have to disagree with you there on the lack of stylistic difference in the CCE. The branches all have their own particular slant, depending on where the original members came from in Ireland. The 4 local branches all have thier own mixture of Donegal / Antrim / Sligo / Roscommon / Scottish influe...

Yes Cynth, I know what you're talking about. Some young kids prefer an attacking style (different from a sligo or northern attacking style BTW) and that's why you might find it more articulated than Broderick (as well as harsher and less appealing due to the amount of the air they use and the tone t...

A lot of this is what some call the "finger bounce". Basically a short trill when coming down from a higher note. Seamus Egan uses it a lot as already mentioned. So does Tom McElvogue. And of course Matt Molloy. A lot of people think of this highly ornamented style as piping style, but a ...

Can anyone try to put into words what they perceive as bubbly? Do y'all mean the general rush through a tune and ornament at every possible spot, or is it something more specific? Hmmm, Chas... I'll give it a shot but it might not work thru this medium. Molloy I believe started it, and then people ...

I'm finding that I'm really beginning to extremely dislike the bubbly fingerwork I'm hearing in alot of today's young accomplished players. If you're curious about what I'm refering to, it was popularized on Matt MOlloy's Black album and can be heard on at least one or two of the bloom of youth rte ...

Have you listened to many older recordings of the A.I.* ? Have you heard the current A.I. performers outside of competition? I ask because maybe what you're hearing is just the influence of competing. The performer might be playing it clean and safe for the sake of getting the prize. Just a guess. ...