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... it once for a few minutes. Been sitting pristine LIKE NEW in its box ever since. Beautiful chiffy round rich tone... but I'm a woman rank amateur player with limited breath capacity and small hands, and I simply found it much easier for me to play smaller whistles. Shaw low whistles can require ...

Thanks for your reply. In my other musical life, I'm a tuba player. I practice on the big contrabass and perform mainly on the smaller bass tuba - so I'm on board with the 'over training' idea. I've gone ahead and ordered one and Dave says should be ready ...

... was sent has me making an exception. The following post is from a piper that calls himself horse racer, this suggests a punter so I think we know ... more than just the bag in that formula). Does it make me a better player? Of course not, but with one caveat. Like any other instrument, we ...

... trip to the venue. They've sat on a shelf ever since. Books are in new quality, and include the follow-along CDs (for those who still have a CD player! lol). New, they run for $145 by today's prices (according to xe.com) from her website. Asking for $100, free shipping CONUS. I will ship elsewhere, ...

... into it, we were all amazed at how steady his blowing was, so steady that if you looked closely you could see the surface of the water slightly ... one pressure, around 33”. My old Pipe Major was like that- a very solid player and incredibly even blower who turned down invitation to join a Grade ...

... sensitive to such issues. I guess the point is that it's more noticeable when there's a G# in the ... says is I think true for any Baroque flute--both F natural and F# must be adjusted. JDB ... be minimal. But perhaps this varies with the player.

I'm selling a Casey Burns standard flute, blackwood, key of D, made ~2000. Large-holed model with ergonomic hole configuration. Big sound, easy player. Bought in 2020 from another C&F member. Checkup done by Casey in Oct 2023. Always kept ...

... to smug about our nice blackwood or boxwood flutes that no flute is 100% safe from the ravages of moisture. ... up in the head, rather than dripping on the fiddle player's knee, like it should do. I have an old flute here ...

That might be useful then to help bring a flat flute up to pitch by adding a dimo, and it would still play flat ... Player compensating by lipping - he's very good. Sellotape attempt ...

... put the octave relationship at. There's a wide range of relationships that the player can blow into tune, but each octave-setting comes with advantages and disadvantages. ...

... put the octave relationship at. There's a wide range of relationships that the player can blow into tune, but each octave-setting comes with advantages and disadvantages. ...

... of factors). Not as common as the Boeham flutes, but the tabor pipe, txistu, willow flute, ... it would get to be a bit complicated. Yes, that's a good point. You could get a fully chromatic ... this way and plays well. As a former brass player who dabbles in Irish flute, I'd certainly ...

TG4 has a lovely documentary with the band preparing for the reunion and the full concert after. Airing right now.

An Bothy Band

... I think there are two reasons that brass instruments have valves, while other ... on brass instruments, and so much worse on the flute family. What ISN'T speculation is the fact ... for a fact due to my experience as a brass player, my experience listening to more primitive ...

No experience with Carbonny's high D fife/flute, but I have a really nice Tipple High D flute/fife with Tipple-Fajardo Wedge that is cylindrical but a real nice player for folk music. Non-wooden options seem hard to find ...