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I like Dempsey's on Tuesdays. Rotating guest leaders. Very welcoming when I visited back in September. Late that evening a regular brought in members of a touring bluegrass band from Norway. Some of them were well versed in Irish music and fitted right in! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dempseys-Iri...

Casey, my friend Will said he saw you at the Global Bean session last week! Good to hear you're back in the game. I'll be seeing WB tonight at the monthly Northern tunes session at the Couth Buzzard, same venue where I host my twice monthly Irish session. Have fun!

Ming

What Mr. Gumby said. That transcription on thesession.org link is in D, and Norman (that is Mr. Holmes in the video, isn't it?) appears to be playing the tune on an 8-keyed D flute. In the A part of the tune he is simply folding the low A and B notes up an octave. In the B part, the only note you ca...

Sorry, I was trying to post this in the flute pictures thread, but it keeps ending up here.

Ming

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This is the flute I bought from Philip K. in Israel back in December. It has since gone to meet its maker (literally, as Casey's shop in Kingston is just a 10 mile bike ride and a 25 minute ferry ride from where I live in Seattle). Casey gave it his usual tune-up: checked the oil, polished the rings...

Well now that Philip K. has announced the sale I can say that I am the new owner of his keyless Burns large holed standard flute. He informed me late on Christmas Eve (Pacific Time) that the flute was on its way. Which means it shipped on Christmas Day, and it's still Hanukkah, so I guess this can b...

This one flies from one of the flagpoles in front of the Sakya Tibetan Buddhist Monastery just down the street from my house in Seattle (the other pole flies the Stars and Stripes). But when the Sakya Trizin (head lama of the Sakya sect, as I understand it) visited a couple weeks ago, they had hundr...

Not a great photo (I was still learning how to use the camera on my phone) but here's a pic of that mural at the Rowan Tree Hostel I mentioned:



Ming

Wish I could go back for the festival, but my wife and I just passed through Ennis on our way home to the States after 10 days in Ireland (and 10 days in Sweden). If you're going I can recommend the Rowan Tree Hostel; very reasonable rates, within spitting distance of Cruises Bar (where I had some n...

A little dab of Blutack (actually, mine's orange, "Elmer's-Tack") has been holding the pad in the long F key of my M&E for over a year now; seems to be working just fine.

Ming

Fisherman's Island is another nice Ed Reavy tune that goes down to C#. Music in the Glen: sometimes I play the CB in the A part up an octave, sometimes I stay low on the C and just go high on the B (all the while wishing these things had a B foot joint). But jumping an octave on just the one note is...

Sounds like flutter tonguing to me.

http://www.wikihow.com/Flutter-Tongue-on-a-Flute

That's how it's supposed to be. (Unless it's boxwood, in which case the flutemaker's judgment comes heavily into play. ;) ) The fit should be tight enough that it needs to be lubricated frequently. Yes, and every beginning clarinet player learns how to hold the instrument while assembling it in suc...

Judging by what I've seen posted on this forum, I'd venture that most of us who own one of these flutes have been quite impressed with its value. I, at least, when I'm having a good day, or maybe a good 5 minutes, can make this flute sound to my ears like a good, simple system conical bore timber fl...

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