Tell us something.: Hello, I'm just starting out on my whistle journey -at the tender young age if 55. So I'm hoping to maybe pick up some tips on playing or who make good quality low priced whistles.
JoFo wrote:When I was first starting out, I brought three flutes to my first lesson. The two-piece Dixon, the three-piece Dixon and the Casey Burns Folk Flute. My teacher didn't like the Dixon flutes at all (so it can't be just me). He did like the Folk flute a lot, though.
The Folk flute is extremely easy to play and sounds really good.
Ill keep an eye out for a Casey Burns in the UK but if I buy from America it starts to go way over my budget
Tell us something.: Hello! I am a flute player from Italy, I'm lurking this forum by years, and now I want to register my account. Really, I have a flute to sell, but surely I approve your rules, and I will contribute to the forum to gain the rights to sell something. :^)
Tell us something.: Hello! I am a flute player from Italy, I'm lurking this forum by years, and now I want to register my account. Really, I have a flute to sell, but surely I approve your rules, and I will contribute to the forum to gain the rights to sell something. :^)
Yep, you are right.
I change my advice to the open poster: if you can, wait to have more money to spend (about 500/600€) and buy a wooden flute. Some good makers offer very nice keyless wooden flute that fits that budget.
Tell us something.: Hello, I'm just starting out on my whistle journey -at the tender young age if 55. So I'm hoping to maybe pick up some tips on playing or who make good quality low priced whistles.
Yep, you are right.
I change my advice to the open poster: if you can, wait to have more money to spend (about 500/600€) and buy a wooden flute. Some good makers offer very nice keyless wooden flute that fits that budget.
Thanks for the advice guys.
As I said I have been lucky and got hold of a Tipple quite cheaply -and am enjoying it.
At the moment the sounds coming out are OK but I can see ive plenty of work to do yet. It'll be a long time before I take it to our fortnightly session
I'm going to stick with my 'plastic' flute until I have a bit more experience of playing and a FAR better embouchere but I can well imagine spending more money later on when I've a bit more of an idea of what I might want. I've never known any musician that only had one instrument.
Tell us something.: I started with playing bamboo flutes. But I transitioned to primarily playing the Boehm flute a few lessons ago with the aim of getting good music instruction. However, I've been transitioning to playing Irish Traditional Music on simple flutes.
JimmyManley wrote: I've never known any musician that only had one instrument.
In my perception, flutes are particularly problematic in this regard. To quote a friend, “You first think that the flute is a small instrument and it doesn’t take up much space. That is, until you have a thousand of them.”
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Tell us something.: Mostly producer of the Wooden Flute Obsession 3-volume 6-CD 7-hour set of mostly player's choice of Irish tunes, played mostly solo, on mostly wooden flutes by approximately 120 different mostly highly-rated traditional flute players & are mostly...