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Thank you, Nano.

It turns out there's quite a long thread (and quite mixed, in terms of quality of info) on this question over on the Fiddler's Hangout forum. A cassette of fiddle and fife duets by Bruce Greene and Bob Butler (FIddle and Fife: together again after a hundred years) gets mentioned there and in a brief...

I'd be interested to know if anyone has found any photos or other mentions of flutes or fifes in the southern old-time music of the 1920s and 1930s, the time of the Bristol Sessions and other recordings that came to define the genre. I've seen earlier references, but can't recall any from that era i...

There's a very enjoyable live recording of music and talking about music from Alan Jabbour and Stephen Wade, "Americana Concert" (it's on Spotify). Lots of the tunes are from Henry Reed, who Jabbour knew and whose tunes he recorded and transcribed (they're on the LIbrary of Congress websit...

Steve Bliven wrote:I've been doubly hijacked—by the old-timey gang and the Rudall-Monzani group....
Steve

Apologies, Steve. And my thanks too to paddler for that article.

If I may add on another question, was a fair amount of what we now called old time music played on flutes? I have always thought it likely that it was. Wooden flute sounds fine in OT ensembles, for much the same reasons flute sounds fine in ITM. And flutes were widespread, or how were these makers ...

Thanks for the recommendation, Brad. I very much enjoyed the book. Lots of good stuff in there about Vermont and Robert Frost as well.

Thanks for this. Sounds right up my street.

Thank you, Jim. And cheers and all best wishes to you. I'd play old time tunes with you any time.

Well, Jim, you brought it up. And I don't think it's inconsequential or somehow ill-mannered that some groups of players might be seeking a particular sound and be unhappy with a change of instrumentation that alters that. This is something we do for pleasure, after all, and part of that might be su...

Jim posted interestingly on this subject some time ago, and it sent me off to try to find some additional info about flute in old time music. I'd like, but don't have a copy of this: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-00299-9.html The field recordings by guy who wrote that book are on YouTu...

Jim posted interestingly on this subject some time ago, and it sent me off to try to find some additional info about flute in old time music. I'd like, but don't have a copy of this: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-00299-9.html There was a thread on the fiddle-l listserv that might be of ...

You know you're producing good tone when you can feel, under your fingers, the air vibrating through the whole length of the tube, every note sounds equally rounded and full and you can do anything with it from 'ppp' to 'fff,' vibrato, trills, etc. Squeaks, stuffiness, airiness, harshness or flatne...

Thanks for that lovely clip, Richard.

I just ordered one of these specials from Ronaldo, and I wanted to give his post a friendly bump. No commercial interest on my part. I had one of his maple-headed low D whistles some years ago, and I'm delighted to have the chance to get another.