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- Thu Aug 27, 2020 12:16 pm
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Beginners flute
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6182
Re: Beginners flute
I'll throw in another vote for the Hamilton practice flute - you sure will get your money's worth if you're on a tight budget and want something tough. I haven't tried as many as the gurus on this site, though. That said, I finally got my mitts on a Folk Flute (after all these years, yeah I know!) a...
- Sat Jan 25, 2020 12:47 pm
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: New or used flute for a beginner?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 17327
Re: New or used flute for a beginner?
When passaged are fingery, I imagine some ghost yelling, "I played Beethoven on that friggin' thing!! In 6 flats!!! Stop whining!!!!". While I can think of places where Beethoven writes six flats, I'm struggling to think of anywhere he asks a flute to play in more than five... can you? :w...
- Mon Jan 20, 2020 8:53 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: 3D Printed Whistle
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5427
Re: 3D Printed Whistle
Keep it up, folks! I have failed a couple times, with and without the thingiverse file, to get a marginally playable instrument. And 3D printing is part of my job. My natural trumpet design also sucked boogers, but that’s another story.
I would love any tips or .stl files!
I would love any tips or .stl files!
- Mon Jan 20, 2020 8:47 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Range/jargon comparing to concert flutes - several questions
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6614
Re: Range/jargon comparing to concert flutes - several quest
I have thoroughly enjoyed my Mellow Dog for many years. It has been on stages in several countries and the sound is just lovely. I don’t think you’ll get many arguments against it on this forum.
I think you’re going to have a grand time with this. Enjoy!
I think you’re going to have a grand time with this. Enjoy!
- Mon Jan 20, 2020 8:31 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Beginner following some, but not all, advice
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8866
Re: Beginner following some, but not all, advice
I think you’ve got a bunch of useful answers, but I’ll toss my 2p. It’s not all or nothing. Yes, I can get away with closed fingerings on some tooters on some passages, but I’ll partially vent quite a bit on airs. Since you brought it up, I caught myself whisper venting the e (oxx xoo) for tuning on...
- Thu Jan 02, 2020 5:38 pm
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: New or used flute for a beginner?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 17327
Re: New or used flute for a beginner?
Welcome and congrats on the Windward! I think you'll find C&F full of expertise and inspiration for those times when your lip cramps up and you have to rest. When I was a noob on flute I'd regularly get patient answers from award-winning performers, master builders, and amateurs with ridiculous ...
- Thu Jan 02, 2020 5:07 pm
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Terry McGee
- Replies: 45
- Views: 14771
Re: Terry McGee
Hope you and yours stay safe. Sending hugs and 50 more badass firefighters from the Frozen North. Some are my old instructors, and I hope it helps. I remember when I did wildland and interface firefighting training. I asked the instructor how this training ranked internationally. "It's pretty g...
- Thu Jan 02, 2020 4:52 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Whistle and flute roll
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7241
Re: Whistle and flute roll
Back to the roll question, I'm just going to make one. None that I've seen have a long enough flap, stand up by themselves on stage, and have all the right slots. I'm picky, yes. I do use a chef's knife roll (trifold) sometimes, and I have a huge flannel roll custom made for a class set of 30 Genera...
- Wed Jan 01, 2020 5:50 pm
- Forum: Irish Traditional Music Forum
- Topic: Why the key of D?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 23886
Re: Why the key of D?
Dang. I’m intrigued. I’ve waded pretty deeply into pitch and temperament in European art music through the ages, but keys and key centres in ITM is a whole nother ocean. Hold my beer....
- Thu Mar 28, 2019 1:50 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Received my Freeman Mellow Dog - I have a question.
- Replies: 41
- Views: 18014
Re: Received my Freeman Mellow Dog - I have a question.
You might like like a modern Burke. The most recent one I played had a pretty high backpressure, more than I prefer. It was surprising as I had another from a decade earlier that was perfect. Sweet, low back pressure. I regret selling that one. My mezzo A is a Burke, and I love it dearly. I’m getti...
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 7:11 pm
- Forum: The Trad Tech Forum
- Topic: Tin whistle in loud onstage environments - monitoring & mics
- Replies: 6
- Views: 30202
Re: Tin whistle in loud onstage environments - monitoring &
I run my mic into a personal monitor (clamps on the mic stand) and run the ‘out’ to the board. It is really directional. Had a bad experience with in-ear, but YMMV.
It can run the monitor channel, but if the stage is loud I just use it to hear myself, and rely on the other monitors for the band mix.
It can run the monitor channel, but if the stage is loud I just use it to hear myself, and rely on the other monitors for the band mix.
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 7:04 pm
- Forum: The Trad Tech Forum
- Topic: On-stage microphones for a whistle
- Replies: 4
- Views: 19378
Re: On-stage microphones for a whistle
I’m using a TC Helicon personal monitor / processor for everything. Best piece of gear I have, apart from instruments. The effects are subtle... a smidge of de-essing, compression, and reverb even works with really trad situations. Sounds like me, only better. Ok, the beer holder that clamps on to a...
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 6:52 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Low D - Wood Anyone?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5900
Re: Low D - Wood Anyone?
I had to start using a sax strap to support it, because using friction of the fingers on the whistle body alone meant keeping a "death grip" on the thing, which did not promote good playing I’m seeing more and more clarinet, oboe, and soprano sax players with neck straps, and I’ve joined ...
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 6:44 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Received my Freeman Mellow Dog - I have a question.
- Replies: 41
- Views: 18014
Re: Received my Freeman Mellow Dog - I have a question.
I really should get a blackbird. On the Mellowdog / Susato front, I really love having both. My much-loved and twice-repaired mellowdog feels so responsive and sweet, but not sine-wavey. The susato is just a beast, resistant to wind, weather, and spilled beer. But thirty years of saxophone playing m...
- Thu Mar 21, 2019 1:38 pm
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Wrong!!!! All Wrong!!!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3467
Re: Wrong!!!! All Wrong!!!
Don’t get distracted! Remember, Faust thing’s Faust!
Late orders make people Verdi annoyed.
(I, too, like opera at work. We call it Shop’ra)
Late orders make people Verdi annoyed.
(I, too, like opera at work. We call it Shop’ra)