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Hi all, Lots of good advice on this thread. I'm not quite up to 25 years of flute playing yet, but I'm not too far off either. :D So here goes. If you're leaving the flute assembled for long periods, and the tenons are cork lapped, make sure that the moisture isn't getting into the cork. Lots of cor...

I know. I'm only finding the last week's programmes. It's annoying me!

I am trying to find a copy of one of Aine Hensey's Sunday night 'An Ghaoth Aniar' radio programmes on RnaG - the one which included Gerry Harrington and Peter Horan as guests (I think it was probably aired on July 16). Does anyone have it archived? I really want to hear this...
Thank you!
Deirdre

Jim: I've been dealing with flute-related tendonitis in my left wrist/back of hand for about the last 2 years, on and off. My advice is: 1) Icing is a good idea. See if it makes a difference. 2) Find yourself some Arnica tablets and/or Arnica cream. Herbal, non-steroidal, good for reducing swelling ...

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ChrisA wrote:/me counts the seconds until MurphyStout tells us to all throw out our metronomes...

You can stop counting now Chris. I wonder what kind of metronome Paddy Canny had :roll:

Ever listened to a good dancer? Well... There's an answer there!

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This is perhaps slightly unrelated, but the Irish language television channel, TG4, showed a programme within the last 2 weeks where an Irish-speaking presenter and crew visited one of these festivals, filmed proceedings, and talked to people who were attending (through English). I found it to be a ...

Thank you all!

I'll have to see what I have on minidisc at the moment - not too much, I don't think. I'm minidisc-recorder-less right now, but I need to get some stuff onto the computer for storage, so I'll see what I can come up with.
Glad you enjoyed the polkas!

Deirdre

Fnat to D with a short F isn't that hard if you think of it as a slide off the Fnat key. D to Fnat is a slide onto the key. Eric I can do the slide off of the key on any of my flutes pretty well. The slide onto the key, though--that I can't quite make work on any of them. Then again, my flutes have...

You're all doing fine by comparison - I had two 3000-word seminar submissions due today at 4.30! I did get them in though. I like Friday the 13th, at least after 5pm...

Deirdre

In Ireland, the only channel with SpongeBob is TG4, the Irish-language station - so my only exposure to the phenomenon has been through Irish. I've never watched a full episode. There are some interesting accents thrown in there in Irish though...
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Although I did learn this tune from Matt Molloy's playing - his is the version that I can hear in my head - and I don't think I've played it a lot since then (quite a few years ago), I phrase it quite differently to Bloomfield's transcription. My breathing in the first part seems to be more differen...

I've had people laugh at me because I won't leave instruments in other people's houses, locked cars, etc. My instruments are all insured, but it's not the cost as much as the horror of losing a one-off instrument that makes me keep them with me at all times. If I'm at a session, if I leave my seat, ...

Cynth wrote:What precisely do they do to get that hair to be so oddly frizzy? It seems sort of beyond perms and the like.

I wear my hair exactly like that on misty days in Cork. PM me for exact styling details.

Deirdre

My first flute was a 2-keyed Hammy. I played that for probably six years, until I got my current flute, a Rudall & Rose (#2196, I think), about six years ago. My younger brother was learning flute, so he had the Hammy for a few years, but he has stopped playing now. I never play it - I don't par...

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I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's son.
I'm only plucking pheasants 'til the pheasant plucker comes.