other wooden flute repertoire?

[tin tin]

Just curious, aside from Irish traditional music, what other repertoires/styles of music have you explored on the simple-system flute? And are there any particular players who inspire you?

[Peter Duggan]

Well, Scottish (of course, as a Scot!) and other trad/folk cultures + Classical (mostly Mozart and Gluck, for which my four-keyed Copley's more fun but arguably not that much more 'appropriate' than a Boehm) and Romantic for a start...

But really anything that takes my fancy and fits!

[Mr.Gumby]

Some light entertainment?

Sex on fire

[Gromit]

Here's a few I really like -

Diarmuid Johnson - Irish, Welsh. Breton, Eastern European

http://www.diarmuidjohnson.net/music.html

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Ewelina Grygier - some nice Jazzy stuff, Irish, Polish etc.

http://www.ewelinagrygier.art.pl/index. ... Itemid=136

http://fandalism.com/ewelinagrygier/T22

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DRD

Acuei

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Acuei& ... 7QaQ9oCQBA

Jidder

All on youtube

[MTGuru]

Sex on fire

That sounds uncomfortable.

[dunnp]

I have occasional drifts playing such like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxRlScuplfc

[chas]

I don't play an awful lot of ITM these days. I play a lot of Playford tunes, O'Carolan, and baroque music, mostly Telemann.

My favorite player is Chris Norman; I prefer his stuff with the Baltimore Consort to most of his solo stuff (except The Man with the Wooden Flute). Their album of Playford is really wonderful.

[ytliek]

Sex on fire

That sounds uncomfortable.

Some like it hot.

[Sirchronique]

Breton! Jean-Michel Veillon!

There are many other styles of music I'd like to expand into a tad bit in the future, as well. However, for now Irish, Scottish, and Breton tunes are my main thing.

[jim stone]

American fiddle tunes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1BR33JOQGE

Middle eastern:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIjUSZbWP-g

[piperJules]

Breton! Jean-Michel Veillon!

Yup...much Breton. I also enjoy playing some Centre France style Mazurkas, waltzes and Scottisches on the flute.

[radcliff]

Breton! Jean-Michel Veillon!

Yup...much Breton. I also enjoy playing some Centre France style Mazurkas, waltzes and Scottisches on the flute.

Double quote! I'm on this kind of super staff as well https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=70 ... =2&theater
getting used to always use G#, A#, Fnat, Eflat...

and following the duo Chris Norman and David Greenberg too.

Still 25 years or more, and I will be able to play this properly (maybe) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQxpFn-biy8
{There is an incredible flute version on "the flower of port williams"}

Bit lazy on ancient scottish music and baroque pieces, but I'm not giving up yet!

;- )

Flute is so fine and so good!

[sfmans]

+1 for Jean Michel Veillon, totally inspiring and a really nice fellow as well.

I hardly play any ITM at all, but lots of English, French and Scandinavian tunes sit very well on the flute. Ben Paley's book 'Swedish fiddle Music' is a joy, especially if you can persuade a friend to join you as there are harmony parts for all the tunes.

I've also found that a lot of ragtime tunes work nicely on the wooden flute - might need a transposition to get it into a reasonable home key, but after that it's fun stuff and really gets me out of the traditional music idiom.

[MarkvN]

Here is an eclectic collection of music on the ‘simple flute’ – maybe not everyone will draw the same line, but ignoring the squabbling about definitions, here goes, some of my favourites:

French bal folque
@ the duo Brotto – Lopez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNuyXX-mbAM
- Les Genoux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEj1xdpUZIA

Cuban charanga (the many early players used the simple system flute, in later times they often changed (back and forth!?) to Boehm):
@ Richard Egües (and his Orchestra Aragón): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpD16rFPPNg
- Jose Fajardo (the inventor of the ‘Fajardo wedge’): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXvwoYlTOv8

West-Africa: the ‘fula flute’ (note the huge mouth hole and how the player 'talks' and blows at the same time):
@ Bailo Bah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jAdY7Dko2g
- Dramane Dembele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC71Ne5MwB0

Klezmer:
- Adrianne Greenbaum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5XLY76TDFg
(the rare early recordings by S. Kosch are even better, joyfull and laid back at the same time, but not of very good sound quality of course)

Mourna:
- Max Cilla (Martinique): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pTHlRv_L9s

It's a wonder how universal the transverse flute is, and not only Boehm!
Cheers,
Mark

[Jonathan]

Malo Carvou for musette and swing-type tunes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uunbL0jMe5Q

J-M Veillon, as mentioned above. Must-listen for any timber flute player.

Sylvain Barou, another great Breton player. Persian, Greek, and Afghan tunes (as well as Irish and Breton) on his solo record. Lovely stuff.