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Thanks crickett & Leemac. I'll check out those players/recordings. Are there any particular flute-oriented tunes you might suggest learning to play to get familiar with the Breton tradition, on a keyless flute? Apologies for my very late response to this. I used to have a lovely collection of B...

Jean-Luc Thomas is a brilliant Breton flute player - his solo albums and his work with Kej are worth listening to. In terms of other great Breton flute players there's also Yannig Alory who played with Carré Manchot, and Hervé Guillo with Storvan.

I recommend McNeela flutes to my beginner students as they're great value for the price. My own flute is a Martin Doyle which I always recommend if people can afford them as they're incredibly easy to play - bit more of a long term investment. I've played that African Blackwood myself though (not su...

As others have already said, as a beginner you can't go wrong with a Tony Dixon whistle. I usually recommend his trad nickel whistle to my beginner students. There are a lot of decent mid range whistles out there at the moment. I mentioned on another thread that I recently picked up a McNeela Wild W...

Sadly I don't own a Sindt (truly my heart lies with my trusty Burke whistle so I've never felt the need despite them being great whistles). I do have a Killarney Eb whistle though which, as others have said, is clearly an imitation of Sindt (highest form of flattery so they say, right?) and I like i...