Went to a recent Boys of the Lough concert and Cathal played a strange looking flute. It looked like it was brass with red stripes and had white on the ends. The embrochure was also almost half way down the instrument.
Anyone have a clue as to what it is?
Just curious.
Mike
What's the strange looking flute Cathal McConnell plays?
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Re: What's the strange looking flute Cathal McConnell plays?
did it look like this?slowair wrote:Went to a recent Boys of the Lough concert and Cathal played a strange looking flute. It looked like it was brass with red stripes and had white on the ends. The embrochure was also almost half way down the instrument.
Anyone have a clue as to what it is?
Just curious.
Mike
if so, it was a Dizi, a Chinese transverse flute.
Re: What's the strange looking flute Cathal McConnell plays?
Ah...sooo...that's what it is then.rh wrote:
if so, it was a Dizi, a Chinese transverse flute.
Thanks.
Re: What's the strange looking flute Cathal McConnell plays?
rh wrote:did it look like this?
if so, it was a Dizi, a Chinese transverse flute.
Err, does Chinese dizi tonguing involve licking the instrument???!
Gack.
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I've actually known several "classical" flutists, including two that were absolutely remarkable, whose tongue was actually visible between their lips when they would articulate.Err, does Chinese dizi tonguing involve licking the instrument???!
Still, I've never really known anybody who licked the flute.
They do sometimes train little kids to find their embouchure placement by the "kiss and roll down" method, though.
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Yeah, it's not a psychadelic toad or anything.peeplj wrote:Still, I've never really known anybody who licked the flute.Err, does Chinese dizi tonguing involve licking the instrument???!
Charlie
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