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You can also find "May Morning Dew" on Mike Rafferty's CD "The Old Fireside Music", sung (unaccompanied) by Mike's sister Kathleen (Track 9).

You could always buy a fiddle for those fiddle tunes.

Denny wrote: well...
the Hawkes is...ah...Prattenish, innit?

Jeeze Denny, next you'll be saying a Nicholson is Rudallish!

Listen to Grey Larson (small holed Hall) and Matt Molloy (big Pratten) and hear the difference or lack thereof in the 'honk' department. Then understand that Molloy would very likely sound like Molloy were he to pick up Larson's 'little' flute. Very good point, remember that recording that Gary Kel...

I'm having the devil of a time figuring out where to breath on the B-part of Morrison's Jig. Suggestions? At the risk of kicking off another round of Ears Vs Dots debate, how about listening to how other players play it/phrase it/breathe through it? One of the reasons why Mike Rafferty ranks so hig...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tuxedo+flute+bag

It looks like one of those padded case covers that you put your Boehm flute hardcase in.

Earth receiving you, go ahead Saturn...

I've played one-piece, two-piece, three-piece and four-piece flutes, and now I'm looking to upgrade. Which maker makes the best five-piece flute? That depends on whether you're counting the headjoint and barrel as two pieces or one, and whether a hose-clamp is considered a piece of the flute or, li...

Depends on how deep your pocket is.... the sky's the limit. M&E, Bleazey and Burns are good on the less expensive end. Tipple is good if finances are really an issue. If you have a wad of cash that's smoking in your pocket, Cotter, Grinter and Wilkes are nice. Inbetween? Copley, Olwell, Murray....

Who was it asking for the goat?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4748292.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5320234.stm

The stuff of nightmares I reckon.

The Gallagher is supposed to be a Pratten but it isn't IMO (and that of some others here). More of a Rudall/ Nicholson, in fact, with a sweet second octave (note the praise for the second octave from Jerry Sullivan on Gallagher's site). Seth has done it again! These flutes are effortless to play an...

Nice one, Red!

Some links that might be of interest from the BBC... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1775786.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/4208213.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2495225.stm And this one, not music-related, may give some useful insights: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/healt...

jim stone wrote:Pat says it's been newly corked. Did flutes of this time
ever have corked tenons?

Yes they did. But please don't take my word for it. Try Google with "Monzani patent of 1812"