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You can only get a few bars in on a straight stretch of road, by steering with your knee. Providing no other cars are comming of course. It is not the safest or smartest thing to do I guess, but you can't live life in a bubble. :boggle: I like to jam In a traffic jam It sure gets the horns a blowin...

"the Harp that Once Through Tara's Halls"
is purportedly in a Celtic air known as
Gra Machree (grá mo chroí).

Is Gra Machree a generic mode and what is its scale?




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amar wrote:car..
is that an unusual place..

A car can only be as unusual
as the person
who drives it

7 holes? It sounds like you may have a bansuri which is a whole different game of cricket from Irish flute. The bansuri scale starts with the first three holes covered (the one closest to where you blow) and goes up from there using half-holing and such. ...... Going from top to bottom is easier fo...

chas wrote:I dunno that I'd draw a distinction between practicing and playing.
.......

Me too,
I gave up drawing some years ago.

(But hey I will still answer your poll )

I have been very taken with the middle eastern scales lately, namely the Hungarian minor, and have made a few whistles in the key of A. These instruments play the tonic with three holes closed so there are three notes below the tonic. ..... And what is the Hungarian Minor please? What are the notes...

Thanks for the great site. These people probably have the deepest understanding of the flute, and what one can do with it, in human history. These are, by the way, simple system instruments. But the 'simple folk flute' in India is something as special as Celtic flute, and folk tunes and religious c...

......This is simply the "classic" minor mode, i.e. harmonic minor, with its typical augmented 7th. You'd play it quite easily on any whistle (say Bb to respect the scale you gave) starting one hole open (xxx xxo). All you have to work on is half-holing the last hole up in second register...

The transverse flute played in Indian "classical" music is the bansuri, which is made of bamboo. Probably its most renowned exponent is Hariprasad Chaurasia (sometimes written Hari Prasad Chaurasia). You might have to go out and pay for a CD, but they are not hard to find. A very nice int...

........What I am talking about: what I've heard called the gypsy scale, like C D Eb F G Ab Bnat C (look at the interval and a half jump from Ab to Bnat). ......... In the western system this is called the harmonic minor scale. You can easily get this starting at the 2 finger Mixolydian note and pr...

........... ascending in the lydian mode, (in C this would mean F# instead of F natural), a scale produced on the bansuri by assigning the third hole down as the root note. Or, from the bell note, ascending in the aeolian mode. [excerpt] 1. This isn't unique to bansuri. Any simple system flute will...

Dear Lisa regarding your first post in this thread It appears to me you are projecting much as being unique to eastern music when it is not so. As a hindustani musician who plays (with :) ) both keyless Irish flute and simple system bansuri-s, Sweetheart flageolet etc (as well as custom made flutes ...

:party: :lol: :) Jest an edit http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=56174&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 Here I defended him against the charge of racism. Perhaps his writing style leaves him open to various interpretations. And here he admits to having a hangover about four hours...