Irish Flute: The Luddite's Perspective

[crookedtune]

OK, then, I'll just save my wind.

[Denny]

Hootin'

[m31]

I agree. Forget about books and graphs.

Paid instructors and live performance definitely make a difference. And fer crissake practice, practice, practice!

[rama]

graphs.

practice!

graphing tone is as about as personally satisfying as graphing an orgasm, which btw can be considered pornagraphic in some circles...

[m31]

Um, flute pr0n is half the reason why I bother with C&F.

Bring it on geeks with gifs! (or is that jerks with jpegs?)

[rama]

i admit... sometimes i do get aroused...

[celticmodes]

So I see two more pages added to this thread and come back to see what could be so interesting.

Nothing but the usual pundits... (2 points)

[Rob Sharer]

Yah, sometimes you just need to let these things blow themselves out, and so draw to a close.



Rob

[Doug_Tipple]

Did someone say "draw to a close"? Those Luddites certainly had a point; the industrial and technological revolution certainly has changed our lives, but in the minds of a few "Neo-Luddites", the change has not always been for the better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Luddism

Flutes with metal keys. Who ever heard tell of such a thing? And are they really needed, I ask you?

[I.D.10-t]

Neo-Luddism? I'm against it. I don't see anything wrong with the traditional Luddites.

[Rob Sharer]

Neo-Luddism? I'm against it. I don't see anything wrong with the traditional Luddites.

Spoken like a true believer.


R

[Nanohedron]

Flutes with metal keys. Who ever heard tell of such a thing? And are they really needed, I ask you?

Seriously.

[jim stone]

Yo Mama was a Neo-Luddite!

[Doug_Tipple]

Seriously.

I want one of those. Seriously, I prefer Brazilian Rosewood. I wouldn't want a plain walnut or Oak, as pictured.

Indiana is the land of the Neo-Luddites. On my travels across Indiana I often see groups of "old order" religious folk in their traditional garb. One group in particular doesn't use buttons for their clothes. They have non-sect drivers who take them to McDonalds for their Big Macs. You have to be careful that you don't run into the horse-drawn buggies also driving on the highways. I have to admit that I still like their pies and noodles, though, and their farms are beautiful, if you are into well-organized farmscapes without electricty lines coming into the farm.

[s1m0n]

Did someone say "draw to a close"? Those Luddites certainly had a point.

And they were correct: the hand-loom weavers all lost their jobs, and a great many ended up in poverty. Even today getting laid off at 50 cuts a staggering 18 months off your life expectency, according to an article I read this week. Imagine what the consequences might have been for a craftsman weaver in the 18th century, when there was effectively no safety net of any kind? We now think the Luddites were being foolish or backwards, but the the Luddites saw stocking frames as a matter of life and death, and they were right. For many of them that's exactly what it was. They weren't resisting progress, they were resisting starvation.