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I'm displaced from New Orleans and am looking for the Houston Flute players. I havn't been on this site in a while, but I know there are several of you out there. What's going on?

Hey Julia C., you should move to the States, buy a gun, and threaten your neighbors. Just kidding. May be you could find some more annoying music, Wayne Newton maybe, and then they'd appreciate your ITM flute playing more.

Hey Julia C., you should move to the States, buy a gun, and threaten your neighbors. Just kidding. May be you could find some more annoying music, Wayne Newton maybe, and then they'd appreciate your ITM flute playing more.

One thing to ask yourself is how big are your hands and fingers. If you have smaller hands and fingers, you may want to start with a Ruddal & Rose style rather than a Pratten style. The holes on a Ruddal & Rose are smaller and closer together. Another good wooden choice is a Bleazy. You're n...

As with all economies, the price will dictate what the insturments are made of. When the price of the various woods gets too expensive for the purchasers, then most of the flutes will be made out of ersatz materials. How about promoting tree farms? Direction for this would need to come from the larg...

Maybe it just doesn't matter. A lot of you all talk like not playing a certain kind of flute makes the music less pure. ITM developed from the common people who wern't classically trained. It's kind of like reciting the common man's poetry from a long time ago and preserving the poor grammer. IMHO w...

can play into the third octave on either wooden or silver flute. For me, it is easier to play into the third octave with a silver flute. My wooden keyless one really doesn't go there. I don't think I've seen an Irish traditional tune that plays into the third octave anyway. If you've never played fl...

to choose from invariably you're going to have to go the silver flute route for a while. If you find one that can teach, often they don't teach lessons. This is especially true if you've never played an insturment before. I think the hardest part about learning to play in the Traditional Irish way i...

Two dudes playing flutes is a summit? You had me making plans to come to town until I read what you had planned.

I've a Mopani Bleazy and I can get a nice sounding loud sound out of it. Enough so that I don't have to be miked. I play with a Celtic harp emsemble. The harps need mikes in pubs and don't in churches/performance halls. The Bleazy flute sounds really nice not even considering the price. The tone is ...

Cast and heat treated metal is more brittle than forged. While not knowing much about the differences in forging vs casting in flute construction, I do know about the differences in golf clubs. Forged irons have a softer feel and can be bent quite readily while cast peices are very brittle and will ...

I would say picking a certain sound and playing style is purely a personal choice. We all have different likes and will do our best to capture that. We listen to others play, find something we like, and try to mimic that sound. If we're good, then others will try to mimic us. There's no right or wro...

Where is the best place to go (or attend) in order to try out the most amount of wooden flutes and head joints? Is there a Celtic Fest where there a lot of insturment makers? It is very difficult to asses things when you don't get to play and hear them for yourself.

for the last 28 years. I'm not a professional by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm not bad either. I easily can play 2.5 octaves on it. I'd rather not mention the flute maker now. I might just be experiencing user error and the flute is appears very well made and is quite beautiful. I know a c...

in the mail today. It's keyless and made of mopane. I find it difficult to play in the second octave. The second octave sound is thin, weak and raspy. When I push the end of the flute away from me, so I'm blowing a bit more left to right across the blow hole, it improves a bit. Is this normal for ke...