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I've often thought about making the effort and getting to this event but something has always gotten in the way of heading south from Inverness - until now. I'm glad to say I've booked and am looking forward to meeting and playing with my fellow Scottish flutesters in April. I suspect I may have met...

whoooo - my copy arrived today .... excellent!! It's not been off the player; nor is it likely to be for a good, wee while. The Hurricane (track 2) blows me away

Thanks Callum.

Hi guys, Thanks for the replies. Just to clarify, I really like my Lehart and I wouldn’t dream of just putting any Eb body I could find on to it (even if it did fit) - just wouldn't be right.If I decided to go down the body v whole flute route, I’d certainly talk to Gilles first. At this stage, I wa...

Hello, I wonder if anyone could shed some light on this for me please; never having been able to compare this for myself. I'm assuming an Eb flute is proportionally smaller than a D in all it's components; headjoint, body and foot. Maybe this is a rogue assumption. However, if it is so, is using a D...

Hi, just wanted to say thanks to Peter and the rest of the Wiston posse for a great series of flute workshops over the weekend; down in the Borders of Scotland. I thoroughly enjoyed myself - and it was great to meet and put faces to names that post here too. Nice talking to and playing tunes with yo...

Thanks for that, guys.

I did wonder whether I was worrying needlessly about the state my pads would end up in - seems I was.

In lieu of rolling papers (being a non-smoker and cookie eater ) I'll just use the edge of the silk cloth I use to mop out with to dab the pads.

Cheers
Chris

Hi everyone, I'm a long-time lurker but first-time poster here on the flute forum ... which I've found fascinating and mighty informative. I began my journey into ITM quite a few years back on whistle but have recently (18 months or so) seen the light (!) and have been putting all my efforts into fl...

Hi folks, thanks for the replies - looks like the way to go is to persevere with the D whistle until I can manage those A tunes fluently ... although it does present a good opportunity to treat myself to another whistle in E ...well, you have to, don't you? As an "ear" player and, as I men...

Hi, I don't understand much about music theory so please bear with me .... I know that I can happily play in D and G on my D whistles; not so happily in A! In order to stay in session with the fiddlers who love to head off into A-land, what's the best whistle key to get? An A sounds obvious - but, i...

Hi Jason,

thanks very much for suggesting this tune - it's a lovely one and another to add to the steadily increasing repertoire.
I've only had my red MK whistle since February but it makes sitting down to learn new tunes - or practise old ones - a real pleasure.

Cheers
Chris

That's absolutely spot on ... many thanks for saving my sanity.
Cheers

Chris

Hi to everyone, this is my first post and I'd just like to say how informative and interesting I've found this forum while reading through posts. I have a Dixon brass D and an MK Low D .... and love them both to bits! So .... here we go with my first question on the CFWF ..... I heard a tune at a se...