OT - Dirty Laundry... got any?

Dana · Post by **Dana** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 5:52 pm

My dirty laundry is that I play the Boehm flute. (I also like opera).

Dana

eilam · Post by **eilam** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 6:04 pm

Man ! Dana, this is the second time in one thread that you are unhelpful to me!!!!!!!!
my laundry basket is piling up!!

AaronMalcomb · Post by **AaronMalcomb** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 6:35 pm

Casey Burns wrote:I would much rather play the Galician bagpipes - and do almost every day! I have a lovely set by the elder Seivane, now retired, that is my favorite instrument to play.

Which you do very well, Casey. I enjoyed your demo while visiting your workshop last spring.

More dirty laundry from me. Boxwood flutes (in general)... what's all the fuss? I really don't get it. Though I've puffed on some nice ones (Olwell, Burns) I don't undertsand what the hype is. Boxwood flutes don't look like flutes. They look like recorders or table legs.

Cheers,
Aaron

Dana · Post by **Dana** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 6:37 pm

eilam wrote:Man ! Dana, this is the second time in one thread that you are unhelpful to me!!!!!!!!
my laundry basket is piling up!!

Say what?

Dana

RudallRose · Post by **RudallRose** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 7:49 am

all content removed because KIA's an idiot

norseman · Post by **norseman** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 8:37 am

AaronMalcomb wrote: They look like recorders or table legs.

There's a difference?

Bob

JessieK · Post by **JessieK** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:14 am

AaronMalcomb wrote:Boxwood flutes (in general)... what's all the fuss?

I can say, in all honesty, that my love for boxwood has nothing to do with anything anyone has said about it. My favorite thing about it is the smell of good boxwood...it's like cookie dough. Secondly, it is lighter in weight (and, thus, is more comfortable to play) than blackwood. It's golden color oozes warmth. Admittedly, not all boxwood is wonderful and lovable. Some seems kind of dull and maple-like, but the good stuff is alive and warm to me is a way that other woods are not.

wolvy · Post by **wolvy** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:54 am

more confessions....

I have been known to insert a french fry (chipie) into the end of my flute and blow it out like a dart gun at other players at our local session.

I also combined a "pit-tuba" with my Uilleann pipe bag and bellows to provide constant "pit" music at Lark Camp one year.

www.pittuba.com

chas · Post by **chas** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:57 am

AaronMalcomb wrote:More dirty laundry from me. Boxwood flutes (in general)... what's all the fuss? I really don't get it. Though I've puffed on some nice ones (Olwell, Burns) I don't undertsand what the hype is. Boxwood flutes don't look like flutes. They look like recorders or table legs.

Hah! Blackwood flutes don't look like wooden flutes, they look like plastic.

The boxwood thing is purely a matter of taste. I like the mellow warmth of the sound and the light weight. I don't think it's better, I just like it. I don't like the weight of blackwood, nor the kind of harsh darkness of the sound. I find that cocobolo is a nice compromise; it's a little lighter and a bit more exciting sounding than boxwood.

artsohio · Post by **artsohio** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:58 am

wolvy wrote:more confessions....

I have been known to insert a french fry (chipie) into the end of my flute and blow it out like a dart gun at other players at our local session.

Boys :roll:

Cathy Wilde · Post by **Cathy Wilde** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 10:17 am

... and when you take the headjoint off a Burke tinwhistle and flutter-tongue while blowing real hard? A police whistle, I swear. Gets the old folks every time.

Wolvy, I think an audio clip of the pit-tuba in action is in order.

AaronMalcomb · Post by **AaronMalcomb** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 10:52 am

If a boxwood Olwell can't convince me I don't see where anything short of DM's Rudall would. And even if the Rudall did change my mind (which I may just take you up on that offer next time I make it to Denver) a cocus or blackwood Rudall would probably turn me back around.

Just remember that my tastes brought me to take up the GHB long before I considered the flute. So lightness and a mellow sound won't be persuading factors.

Cheers,
Aaron

andrew · Post by **andrew** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 11:53 am

Perhaps Mr Malcomb would be so kind as to tell us more about blackwood Rudalls.

AaronMalcomb · Post by **AaronMalcomb** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 12:22 pm

I was actually speaking more about boxwood than Rudalls, Andrew. Since I'm not all that smitten with boxwood I was saying that if I tried a boxwood Rudall I would probably only like it because it was a Rudall and not because it was boxwood.

Cheers,
Aaron

Leonard · Post by **Leonard** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 12:46 pm

My Dirty Laundry is about the fact that wooden flute is hard to play in tune. You have PLAY wooden flutes in tune cause it's never in tune if you play all the notes the same way...

Well, I considere it's farely impossible to change your embouchure for a single note (say a too flat F sharp) within a reel played fast...so you have to get used to the fact that when you play fast, you're never completly in tune.

Maybe I'm a bit capricious, but I can hear when a note is out of tune even withing a fast tune. And I think it's sad.

If the C nat is in tune, the C sharp is not, so the inverse. That's what I heard on every flutes I tried yet...

But wooden flute still got the prettiest sound of all instruments in this world so I do my laundry and I go with it!