youtube video

[tucson_whistler]

has everybody seen this one?

Irish flute player Ronan Ryan plays two reels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzSMYece0FM

then can anybody tell me what he is doing at about the 3:13 mark? is it tonguing?

cheers,
eric

[mkchen]

Sounds like flutter tonguing to me.

http://www.wikihow.com/Flutter-Tongue-on-a-Flute

[Gabriel]

Yep, that's it. Doing it from time to time as well, and it sounds the same.

[RudallRose]

weird.....but is this a right-handed player using a left-handed flute??
seems to be. look at the short-f key and the rubber-banded G#key.

[Akiba]

weird.....but is this a right-handed player using a left-handed flute??
seems to be. look at the short-f key and the rubber-banded G#key.

I noticed the same anomaly.

He does seem to use a lot of tonguing (glottaling?) as well as the flutter?

[LorenzoFlute]

Oh well, it seems that all the combinations are possible...!

[tucson_whistler]

Sounds like flutter tonguing to me.

http://www.wikihow.com/Flutter-Tongue-on-a-Flute

thanks. i never heard of this before (i think it's not even in the Tome of Grey! : )

yes, i thought maybe he's combining a couple of things, throating, tonguing, etc. but i'll give this flutter tonguing thing a try...

cheers,
eric

[ducks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTZPRqW9dTg

unconventional techniques R us... I blame Jethro Tull.

[Denny]

*cough* long before Ian there was
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V4_6Zzlg0A

[ducks]

My uncle spent a long time playing Roland kirk to me..

[Denny]

right....I'm old

[Akiba]

To be honest, I've find flutter tongue on flute in whatever genre (trad, classical, jazz) to be "schtick"--artificial, grating, contrived. I particularly dislike it in trad, e.g. Niall Keegan. Only one player I've heard does it well because it's so subtle and truly adds to the music--Brian Finnegan on whistle, e.g. he uses it a little on the last/3rd tune of his "Belfast" set of reels on his latest CD.

[radcliff]

I really like Frankie Kennedy style and his use of tongue on flute....

[tucson_whistler]

i thought what he did here was pretty good; i liked it.

but that's the only recording of him i've heard... i imagine if he used it alot on every tune it would start to get on my nerves

cheers,
eric

[Kirk B]

i thought what he did here was pretty good; i liked it.

but that's the only recording of him i've heard... i imagine if he used it alot on every tune it would start to get on my nerves

cheers,
eric

He has a myspace page. I really love his music.

http://www.myspace.com/rryanmusic

[edit - now that I look at it, there seems to be only one tune there. There used to be more than that.]

Cheers,

Kirk