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Beautiful keyless flute made by renown Scottish maker Roderick (Rod) Cameron. Rod is currently retired and not accepting new orders so this a unique instrument. The flute has a Rudall&Rose style and large holes which provides a strong but beautiful tone. Apart from a repaired crack on the head, ...

Are there any makers / repairers, flute owners out there, that have ever seen a way of making regular pewter plugs for low C and C sharp keys, silent? I've talked to a couple of makers about their experiences with hard rubber replacements, or exchanging the metal rings on the flute (by which the pe...

[Thread revival. - Mod] You might simply try sticking a tiny drop of fine machine oil (something thin, not too viscous) on the contact surfaces between the pads and and the pad seats. These were meant to be oiled with a small drop of fine oil, possibly spermaceti. Not only will this quiet them down...

In summary, I don´t think it would be correct to describe these guys as "Irish flute" players: The Hurricane by Scottish flute player Calum Stewart https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RDEMVEkT0IEkjWSD9h08FmNE5g&v=iWpCAYAwj9A Breton tunes by JM Veillon & Co https://www.youtube.com/wa...

She provides crunch, like croutons in a salad. Best when not over-dressed, presumably ... I´d like mine highly over-dressed please! :) In the words of the "Scottish fiddle" player Alasdair Fraser: “We don’t really play notes; we play clusters of notes”. “We don’t add ornaments; they’re in...

I don't think there is any analogy there at all. I think you're making a logical error again. If it were analogous, we would describe the instrument that I started on in this music as the "Irish fiddle". We don't even use the term "Irish fiddle" for the music, let alone the inst...

"It's an antique-style wooden flute, what orchestra flutes used to look like in the 1800s before the silver sticks were invented. Sometimes it's called an Irish flute because it got absorbed into Irish folk music for the past century or so." That's not too much to say in response, and usu...

I'm returning to a point I made earlier, about how the "Irish" adjective may be problematic but it helps the contemporary makers of these flutes sell their flutes and stay in business, so we can enjoy modern replicas and improved designs. A quick survey of maker web sites shows the follow...

I've sometimes called it the "pre-modern flute," but that makes it sound a bit like I'm playing a bone flute in a cave. "Pre-modern" is not bad, although historians have varying definitions of "modern" and a conical bore flute made of delrin or carbon fiber kind of und...

How big a part did other styles of music play, in the "revival" of this style of flute? Or was it mainly what players of Irish music were doing with it? What's the ratio of Irish players to anything else? I'd argue that the vast majority of people currently playing these flutes are using ...

Ok, I agree “concert flute” can also be confusing. I hate “celtic flute”. What about “Romantic flute”? It is accurate to the period, following the renaissance, the baroque and the classical flutes. I guess it could lead to funny jokes though... Another option could be “traditional flute”. Some playe...

Well, the problem is that the greater public has pretty much conferred the term "Irish flute" upon it. Did it though? I never heard anyone call the instrument 'the Irish Flute' outside the internet and then the usage seems mostly American based. People play 'the flute' and some older gene...

The simple-system wooden flute is commonly called “Irish flute” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_flute However, most wooden flute players nowadays know that the “Irish flute” is simply the 19th century English flute http://www.oldflutes.com/english.htm, originally designed and used to play art ...

My favourite SSP players are, in this order:

Anna Murray
Martyn Bennett
Lee Moore (with Pipedown - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi_VevedhIA)
Iain MacInnes
Hamish Moore
Chris Norman

I would like to listen to some virtuoso of my favourite instrument... can you advise me someone who can really use the 8 keys flute? (so all the keys, all tecniques, etc?) obviously I'm not talking about trad ITM :-) I think there are many good Baroque/Romantic/Folk 8-key flute players out there, w...