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Also there is one music shop that sells "re-tuned" Aulos Stanesbies: they told me that they modify the toneholes and also change the position of the cork. There is a one-man operation called Antique Sound Workshop. https://aswltd.com/index.htm Here is an excerpt from their page on the Aul...

I apologize for going a bit off the language track. I looked up Braham on Google maps and noticed one of the east-west streets there was 413th Avenue NE. All the small towns between there and the Twin Cities are bisected by still large but decreasing street numbers. Did Minneapolis once (or still) h...

Indeed, growing up I was cautioned that "Brit" was deemed pejorative by the British. Whether this was true at the time I have no way of knowing, but if so, on this Board at least it seems to have changed. I have friends in Cornwall who make very firm distinctions between “English” and “Br...

[/quote]So do you understand all your countrymen's ways of speaking? I'm not sure we all do.[/quote] The short answer is not always. The question I end up asking myself sometimes is when does what I am hearing stop being English? I have friends who were born in Nigeria who speak a patois that includ...

“Pounding sand” brought forth a late ‘70’s flashback. In this song, La Conduite by Malincorne,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt3CYIqwOKA

the liner notes say, “The sound of marching feet was produced by punching fists into a large bowl filled with gravel.”

You would be following in the footsteps of P. D. Q. Bach, who gave us the tromboon.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GKVg162kSDM

If this doesn’t convince you to continue on your quest I don’t know what will.

Here is an article about the fires in Malua Bay, where Terry lives. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/01/malua-bay-fire-survivors-tell-how-1000-people-lived-through-a-night-of-flames-on-nsw-beach I am keeping him, his family, and his neighbors in my thoughts. I had a wonderful expe...

Lovely and loud (but sweet). Jon Swayne high d boxwood whistle. $170 includes shipping to the contiguous 48 US states. If you live elsewhere and are interested, please contact me and we can work out shipping costs. Also includes a nice padded bag. PM me with an email address and I will gladly send a...

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Dave Copley makes a Baroque style version of his standard D flute, with some different styling and an Eflat key. http://www.copleyflutes.com/catalog.html http://www.copleyflutes.com/baroque_cat.jpg On this forum Dave said it, "was made for a customer who wanted it to play like a modern "Ir...

The images work for me. If anyone else is having difficulty, please let me know, it might be some funky permissions issue with Photobucket. You can also view them at:

http://s574.photobucket.com/user/Vizibl ... t=3&page=1

For sale at what I hope is a relatively non-crazy price.

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Thanks for your interest. These whistles are headed to a new home. It's time to thin the herd a bit. I'm really much more of a flute player and I've still got a lovely boxwood Swayne for those times when the whistle bug bites. Up for sale is a set of Sindt whistles. There's a D, with an Eflat tube,...

I mainly play trombone and tuba, but have played flute for ten years or so. I don't think they detract from each other but they do require different approaches. A flute teacher I know says that the toughest part of dealing with brass players is, "Getting them to give up their corners." You...

I lived in Syracuse for many years while John Oberbrunner was the principal flute of the Syracuse Symphony. John is an extraordinary musician who can coax a vast palette of tone colors from the flute. He really opened my eyes to how versatile and expressive the flute can be. Among Irish flutists, th...