Hello all,
Are any of you currently blogging about Irish flute playing? I would love to know if you are. Also, I started an Irish flute blog of my own about trying to play Irish music on a Boehm flute. I would love it if you would check it out and give me your opinions. Hope its ok I’m posting this (please forgive me if it’s not):
Tie the Ribbons
http://tietheribbons.wordpress.com/
Thanks!
Eden
After reading your blog, I have to ask what kind of flute is the Rosewood simple system? There are lots of cheap Pakistani Rosewood flutes out there and if that’s what you’ve got then you haven’t really given the simple system flute a real chance yet. A bad instrument can turn a person away faster than anything. I play a Pratten style Delrin (Polymer) flute that cost $400 and can give a lot of wood flutes a good run for the money. I also have a Boehm flute that I toy around with playing ITM sometimes. The Boehm is much easier to get a strong tone out of all across the range and it’s louder, but the simple system flute is just better suited to the rhythm and ornamentation of ITM. All I’m saying is maybe don’t give up on the simple system flute just yet. 
Cheers,
Kirk
Hey Eden, just read your blog post… well done!
I think it’s great that you’re doing what you do and more power to you for doing so. Keep it up… i’ll be reading with interest & doing my best to learn some Irish Flute tunes on my Boehm. Mind you, i’ve just ordered a Low D Tipple, so i’ll also be giving that a good workout when it arrives! 
DJiNN
Thanks so much for checking it out! The simple system flute I have is a M & E flute, keyless. My main complaint is the intonation and some weak notes. But there are other reasons I prefer my Boehm flute, but I’ll save that for my next post . Thanks again for checking it out. Feel free to leave comments on the blog as well!
Age-enhanced reading: at first glance, I read the post as Flogging Fluters… 
With best regards.
Pfreddee (Stephen)
it’s a tough crowd here 
an’ a bit kinky
No no no. I’m from Indiana. We don’t flog 'em in these parts. Chinese water torture, maybe. But never flogging. 
Hello all,
I just put up a new post on the blog listing the reasons why I’m playing ITM on a Boehm flute. Check it out if you are interested, and please feel free to leave comments and any other suggestions on the blog 
Here’s the link to that post:
http://tietheribbons.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/flirting-with-the-enemy-why-im-bothering-with-boehm/
Thanks,
Eden
I noticed you’d put this up on the session.org too. I read that and had a look at the site.
I can’t quite comment on it without being what some may regard as too harsh. (I wrote a longer comment but have deleted it.) I don’t get it. It seems self-centred and I don’t understand why traddies would read it. Or have I missed the point?
[Someone needed to express this contrary view - this site can be so lovey-dovey sometimes. ]
ew, Brit rebel!!!
yer so weird!
How about them Butler Bulldogs?
We’re talking basketball here, folks.
I live a block from the Butler campus,
and there is a lot noisy celebration in my neighborhood.
Is this where we are supposed to blog? About flutes?
look
basketball
flute
blog
Well, to be fair it is a blog, and they tend to be more based on personal experience.
Read yer blog,Eden. Seems you aren’t quite as isolated from the ITM community as you might imagine. 
Doug Tipple might be just down the road. . . .
Keep us posted on your blog. And keep looking for people to share a few tunes with.
Bob
Thanks Bob! You’re right, but Indianapolis is a two hour jaunt from where I’m at. There is a session once a month 20 mins or so from me, which I should start going to 
once I get some tunes under my belt. Thanks for checking it out!
you should go now
you’ll find out what they play
you can learn how they run it
you can make acquaintances
take a recorder
Very good point Denny. I went once about a year ago and just never went back.
Perhaps I’m just not up with the modern world then. Seems narcissistic to me.
I don’t get the “enemy” thing. I started on Boehm about 40 years ago, dropped it after some professional use, then came back to the woodwinds through the Irish whistle and flute a few years ago. They’re different instruments, with different strengths and weaknesses (so far, seems like you’ve focused on the advantages of a chromatic keyed flute, which aren’t too controversial, for the reasons you mention, if that’s what you want from a woodwind–but a good wooden flute, certainly don’t have to spend 3-5,000 for one–has wonderful playability within its limits and sounds wonderfully…wood) and I suppose musical traditions. Pick up the “Wooden Flute Obession” albums for a nice variety of flutists. Maybe a perfect alternative for you would be a wooden headjoint for your Boehm. A number of good Irish flute makers make them (haven’t tried one myself–but one of these days…I’ll have to invest in one for my open holed Boehm).
No reason not to blog on the subject–there’s many more time-wasting bloggers/blog topics (meaning they waste time, not you) out there. Next thing we’ll have to live with a twitter-er (or would that be tweeter-er) sprinkling their profoundly inane 140-character thoughts about this rich music on the world, oh lord, now that’s scary…
Best,
Jaydoc