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There seem to be some options e.g. http://soundsinspiring.nl/handpan-related/foot-pedal/ Interesting... a Shruti box has the advantage of fitting in with the acoustic instrument vibe, and that foot pedal gadget makes it workable with flute. But I don't know if I could handle a single chord drone. M...

About that dullness that develops around the embouchure hole. I have a 3 year old blackwood flute that's starting to show this. I can polish it out with a little cork grease, but it comes back pretty fast. I like the way it looks -- like the flute is no longer showroom fresh and someone is playing i...

I can report that Fintan's new book and CD's have made it halfway around the planet and arrived safely out here on the extreme edge of the USA Pacific Northwest. The book was ordered from the Walton's web site on Friday Dec. 6th and shipped on the following Monday. It took another 10 days to arrive ...

FYI, the 2012 tour rider for Lúnasa specifies a Neumann KMS 105 (hypercardioid condenser mic) for Kevin's flute, and I think that's what he was using when I saw them on tour last year in Seattle. It has a distinctive basket around the grill that makes it easy to identify. Nice mic, if a bit pricey!

I had this problem recently with my Windward flute. I had applied a tiny amount of slide grease maybe a year ago during a regular maintenance session, but it either dried out or sublimated or whatever the heck happens to that stuff. I applied a little more than I normally would this time, then wiped...

Jerry Holland playing Brenda Stubbert's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR4ouNC1ywA Can't really hear what he's doing in that clip. Try this -- click on "Brenda Stubbert's MP3 Sound Clip" halfway down the page, the link just above the sheet music. http://www.jerryholland.com/tunes.htm This...

Thanks everyone, for the feedback! I have the Grey Larsen book, so I'll have to review that section on double cut rolls. I spent some time this afternoon trying different ideas. The closest I got to something I liked (and could actually pull off, at my level) was using tongue for the attack, followe...

My favorite bouzouki albums (although actually I think it's the Swedish "Latmandola" variant) are these two:

Fully Rigged -- Aly Bain & Ale Möller

Beyond the Stacks -- Aly Bain & Ale Möller

Just lovely Shetland fiddle with a great 'zouk (or 'lat) player backing.

Hi all. I'm a relative beginner on flute, but I've been playing Irish, Scottish and Cape Breton music on mandolin for a while. On a tune like Jerry Holland's "Brenda Stubbert's reel" (and many others like it), fiddlers play a very quick, hard, scratchy triplet ornament. Listen to Jerry Hol...

First post here, as good a place as any to jump in, I guess. I bought a Windward as my very first Irish flute, about a year and a half ago. I once owned a Gemeinhardt silver Boehm flute 30-some years ago, but I never spent much time with it. I was able to get a tone, and play a few tunes, but I've b...