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The effect of this would be to impose a measure of 3/4 in a 6/8 tune. Which to me is dangerously evocative of "West Side Story." You know: I like to be in Amer-i-ca Okay by me in Amer-i-ca Everything free in Amer-i-ca For a small fee in Amer-i-ca Which I guess is ok if that's what you're a...

Bloom, you picked one of the very worst tracks on the Kevin Crawford CD. The airs are a severe lapse of taste, but program your CD player to skip them. The rest is first-rate.

Low tech solution: I just take a breath every now and then through the whistle while I'm playing. That's right, I just suck the condensation right out. Arcane chemical treatments seem like overkill to me, seeing as how there's nothing in the whistle that wasn't in my mouth to begin with.

My best advice is this: If you really dig Paul McGratten, Conal O'Grada, Harry Bradley and that really rough, balls-out playing style and tone, go for an Olwell. If you prefer a more refined, yet laser sharp and responsive, tone and style of someone like Kevin Crawford of Mike McGoldrick, go for a ...

On 2002-11-20 10:53, OdinDane wrote: I played my Grinter Keyless Blackwood against an Olwell and I think they are just two superb flutes. There was not that much difference in the flutes (the differences were subtle not drastic), There's a considerable difference in philosophy at work between the t...

Ditto Energy: speed and doing service to the tune are most certainly not mutually exclusive. This is dance music. If you're playing for a feis, your reels should clock at about 112 beats per minute. If you're playing for a ceili, you could end up going a bit faster than that, depending on the dancer...

(I'm new here; hi all; it's wonderful to be.) Have you all heard Matt Molloy's take on Jig of Slurs on the "Stoney Steps" album? It's fascinating to see how he deals with the problems this tune presents; what he plays is undeniably virtuosic, but at the same time much easier to play on flu...