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10 days now.

... yikes.

I just looked at the dots for those, totally squaked my noodle, make no mistake.

This jig is melting my brain, 5 parts man. It reminds me of 3 separate, different tunes and is spliced with a planxty song. :swear: Im learning the version of it off the playing of Shamus Ennis on 'the return from fingal' CD, though he plays it on a flat set which adds another cherry of insanity to ...

Celt is a 4 letter world. :swear: There are a lot of assumptions made about 'Celtic', it is, to my mind and the minds of those who have studied the darkest and dingiest corners of history it is a misnomer, a word which has been used again and again over the centuries, each time its meaning adapted t...

instruments are not relics, they should be played.

that said, if there in the family for more then one generation, unless the family were really good friends and i was planning on marring one of their line, i wouldn't buy such a set

This looks like an absolutly beautiful set, alase its going to be nearly a year before i have enough saved for this kind of purchace. uppon getting back from work and watching the vidio, i can confess that it also *sounds* like an abosolutly beautiful set. :waah: to quote an old proverb: ... if it ...

i was really hoping for a good news story this time... just this time, maby for once.

This looks like an absolutly beautiful set, alase its going to be nearly a year before i have enough saved for this kind of purchace.

Thanks for the answers - direct flights Hamburg/Cork seem to be a problem and the two-step flights are all quite pricey. So I'll probably be flying in to Dublin on the 26th and driving down with a hire car. Lets me do a litle sightseeing on the way back too. the train to cork may work out cheeper t...

Dominic Allan wrote:It's been re-listed: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/8-KEYED-WOODEN-FL ... 2813725280

gosh that looks familiar.

in reeding this im detecting a little bit of hoitility from the modern flute crowd
strange
its actually reminiciant of the mac / PC debate, im not sure which ones which though

...tribalism. No, or if it is tribalism, it is the wrong kind. Watch two Muay Thai fighters pound each other and at the end hug each other and the coaches shake hands. Same with BJJ or MMA. The "Tribe" should be the sport and those who participate and I have seen it. A good competition is...

ill hop on a train for this for sure.

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aww fudge, thats my first weekend in cork, poosticks.

theres a market here for a detachable lip plate.

also rock climbing > caving, easier access for when the ambulance is inevitably called.

:thumbsup: My main and at the moment, only axe is a potentially english, probably 19th centuray wooden keyed flute restored by Jem, its an absolute star, and my only complaint about it is that i cant blaim it for my own faults as a player. What does it offer that other flutes dont? History, Challeng...