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The National Celtic Festival is on again in Port Arlington, just south of Geelong in Victoria, Australia on the Queen's Birthday weekend (10-13 June, 2005). (What better way to celebrate our illustrious Queen's birthday than with tunes and songs from all those people her antecedents attempted to civ...

Yes, a girl at last, so I'm off the hook now! Whew!

So Joey Rose, eh? As you would have seen, ours is Roisin ("Ro-sheen"), Little Rose.

And yes, Chris Wilkes is nice on the pipes; we went to a session with him while I was visiting in 2002.

Terry

Yo Jessie Good to see you and the little one. We've added one of our own earlier this year (see the totally over-the-top account by the proud mum at: http://www.mcgee-flutes.com/Roisin.html Caution - only go there if you have a fast link and a lot of time! So should I be adding Multiplication to my ...

I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint. My main not-flute-making activity is flute research. Sheesh, unimaginative, eh? In my own defence, I can plead accompanying Jesse's singing (on guitar), and cooking. I really enjoy cooking, but isn't that just another workshop situation? And care of our local cari...

Don't know if I've shown you this perverted little number before:



Handy for playing around corners!

Terry

Ah, the offending item has been disallowed by Ebay. So that answers the question - they are prepared to disable a scam if alerted.

Well done ajay, a triumph for Truth, Justice and the Belconnen Way.

Terry

is there some reason why no one has bothered to not that this is the same flute on both ebay listings? One obvioulsy BS (do not trust anyone sellign a high-deal flute from a new member....usually it's a giveaway). And not only the same flute but the same photos of the same flute. I lost interest at...

I think you're right, Andrew. This is becoming a serious issue. Do we need to develop a routine response to it on behalf of the flute-loving community? Will Ebay react to challenges? On a happier note, I recently purchased a French 5-key flute through Ebay for my Research Collection. It came up at a...

Yes, ebonite is definitely brittle. It probably becomes more brittle with age, like other early plastics. This is often due to the volatilisation of plasticisers. I had to replace a broken tenon on an ebonite bassoon. It was too munched to glue, I had to cut it off, backbore, set in a new piece and ...

No, ebonite won't explode - that was a confusion going around a few years back with enough vigour it will no doubt resurface for the rest of time. Someone in a museum confused celluloid (or one of its close relations) and ebonite and wrote an alarmist article about it. Ebonite seems very stable apar...

Just wanted to bump this thread up to the top to remind myself (when I get home from work) and others (Please!) to post their flutie nudies! If you show me yours, I'll show you mine ... :wink: Well, if you'll permit a few images of "older ladies" among your flute lichen, you might like to...

Jon C. wrote:For all those that have bought Ebay Pakistani flutes, here is the answer! I should start making kits...

I've wondered about it too, but gave up the idea when I realised I'd be swamped with queries about what kind of light bulbs Matt Malloy uses.

Terry

Well done! Keep in mind that as you go lower in pitch, you should direct your air jet lower down, and as you go higher, it must come up closer to just below the edge on the far side of the hole. Pout more to reduce jet length in the second octave. Alternate high notes and low notes - you should be a...

What do you call the tomato condiment? Ketchup, Catsup, Catchup, Katsup, Catsip, Cotsup, Kotchup, or Cornchops? Ketjap! Ketchup is another of those words that entered the language from India or thereabouts I understand. I have a bottle of Ketjap Manis in the fridge I use in stir-frys. If you haven'...

JT-L (note the hyphen), flourished in Paris from somewhere around 1867 to after 1950 as makers of woodwind, brass, strings etc etc - just about anything really. They had agencies in London and New York and about 5 factories employing 1000 workers and using the new-fangled electricity. Jerome himself...