Irish Reels on a Boehm Flute

[Doug_Tipple]

A facebook friend from Singapore posted this video today. With a few exceptions, mentioned on the youtube notes, I think the tunes sound pretty good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Xkmu0g ... e=youtu.be

[RudallRose]

i dunno....Joanie Madden's been doing it great for years and years.
And Carty did it great on a wooden Radcliffe system, too.

[dunnp]

I've been listening to Billy Clifford's album lately (the old one)
Great tunes altogether and the flute supports his style wonderfully.
Though I think he's playing a Radcliffe on the old album.
Here he is on a Boehm I believe:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-gTgBUlp0_k
He plays both as far as I know.

Does anyone know what Paddy Taylor played mainly covered holed eight key cylindrical?

Tony Rice has a nice style as well from what little I've heard.

The video posted is okay. I think when the player gets a better handle on playing the Boehm
He will sound very, very good.

For a player much younger than the others I've mentioned see Phillippe Barnes.
He has a lot more control overthe instrument than the the posted clip.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tbJ1Qaho4rE

I think he gets nice tone out of it too
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=obWTaS7An_Y

[Holmes]

http://media.comhaltas.ie/audio/cl323/cl323_5_64K.mp3

Tara Breen was only 14 or 15 when she reorded this on a wooden Boehm

It does it for me...

H
Save your hot air for blowing down your flute
Holmes Mooney & Wood play; The Laird Of McNabb - http://www.box.net/shared/5tx0jxtd7cbbgjfsjkp0 (Holmes McNaughton D Blackwood eight key).
http://youtu.be/zrNs33H7uxY Cuig Emag reel - How Sweet The Name of Peggy..
http://www.box.com/s/fvvfmefsrommgx7084zg B min Jig D 8 Key

[LorenzoFlute]

And what if this people played a simple system instead...

[apossibleworld]

What if. Then it would be something else.

[Kirk B]

A facebook friend from Singapore posted this video today. With a few exceptions, mentioned on the youtube notes, I think the tunes sound pretty good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Xkmu0g ... e=youtu.be

Isn't that PJ aka Tinwhistler? I thought he lived in Galway. Did he move again?

[Kirk B]

If he played a simple system flute, he'd probably sound like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1yXpjILytw

Cheers,

Kirk

[Denny]

now ya've done it

[Kirk B]

now ya've done it

That's what my wife keeps telling me.

[jadphoto]

I've been listening to Billy Clifford's album lately (the old one)
Great tunes altogether and the flute supports his style wonderfully.
Though I think he's playing a Radcliffe on the old album.
Here he is on a Boehm I believe:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-gTgBUlp0_k
He plays both as far as I know.

Does anyone know what Paddy Taylor played mainly covered holed eight key cylindrical?

Tony Rice has a nice style as well from what little I've heard.

The video posted is okay. I think when the player gets a better handle on playing the Boehm
He will sound very, very good.

For a player much younger than the others I've mentioned see Phillippe Barnes.
He has a lot more control overthe instrument than the the posted clip.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tbJ1Qaho4rE

I think he gets nice tone out of it too
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=obWTaS7An_Y

Noel Rice perhaps?

JD

[dunnp]

Yes Noel Rice.
Subliminal rice confusion?

A youtube search pulled up this:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5aWOAtFRKxw

[jadphoto]

Another excellent Boehm/silver flute picker...Brian McCoy. (Kells Band)

Also has a very informative DVD out for those of us who, for various reasons, choose/need to play a Boehm system flute.

JD

[Akiba]

Of course don't forget about Joanie Madden:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOrU5sVUyqs

switches to flute about half-way through

big tone

[Doug_Tipple]

Of course don't forget about Joanie Madden:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOrU5sVUyqs

switches to flute about half-way through

big tone

If you are interested in playing Irish music on a silver flute, Joanie's playing is an inspiration. However, most concert flutes have holes in the center of the key that you must carefully cover, usually with your finger tips, which isn't very easy to do playing with flat fingers. You can place plugs in these holes, tape them over, or you can purchase a flute with plateau style keys (no open holes), the same as the keys on the beginner flutes. It turns out that some top quality flutes are also made this way (Haines Flutes, for example), and these flutes, while being for ideal for Irish music, in my opinion, are often the first choice of jazz musicians. I have a Yamaha solid silver flute, circa 1975, that for years was the principal flute of a jazz musician in Los Angeles. You can also purchase Chinese models of the flute for about $100. I have one of those too. It has a black nickel finish with silver plated keys, and it is a terrific flute for the money. That clip by Joanie and Mary has inspired to get more serious with my flute practice.