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Well, you're certainly playing in the "Irish Style" Care to play the same thing (with no reverb) on that Bb you've got, driving it just as hard? A bit of lip overdrive alone, does not the wooden Irish flute sound make
JS wrote:Given the prices the Olwell bamboos are going for these days, are there any other makers whose bamboo flutes are a near match for them, especially in being suited to playing trad music?
Thanks.
Dunno. I have an Erik the Flutemaker G flute that I really love. It was like $50 or something. And, I just won an Erik low-D on eBay for $11.07. Can't go too wrong for that price. As long as I don't play an Olwell and get spoiled, I'll probably enjoy 'em.
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Haven't played them. I've played lots of cane flutes, as I lived
in India. I hope nobody will take me to be knocking Pat or
his cane flutes when I say I don't see much non-cosmetic difference
tween competently done cane flutes.
JS wrote:Given the prices the Olwell bamboos are going for these days, are there any other makers whose bamboo flutes are a near match for them, especially in being suited to playing trad music?
Rhiannon bamboo flutes by Chris Dawson are on par with Pat Olwell's bamboo flutes both in sound and finish. When Flook was in town Brian Finnegan offered up his artillery for trial. He had a Rhiannon G# that he played the %*@# out of. The finish was almost identical to my Olwell bamboo flute... that glossy, amber glow. Brian Finnegan played a bamboo Olwell D exclusively for some time.
Jean-Michel Veillon also plays Rhiannon flutes on his CDs.
I have one of Chris Dawson's bamboo flutes in G and it's an awesomely powerful little sucker. You could knock over tall buildings with it; it's turbocharged.
However, Chris told me a few years ago that he has never been able to find a source of cane for flutes bigger than F; he wasn't offering D flutes. I don't know if that has changed, or even if he is still making flutes, but the little ones really are amazing.
Cool! In retrospect, I think it was at least six or seven years ago that Chris and I were talking about his bamboo flutes; I'm glad he has since found a source of longer cane.
I recently emailed Chris Dawson regarding a D flute, and he has been unable to locate a good bamboo supply for these flutes, so nothing available from him at this time - sounded like he'd be glad to make some flutes if he can get the right bamboo - Tod
toddyboy50 wrote:I recently emailed Chris Dawson regarding a D flute, and he has been unable to locate a good bamboo supply for these flutes, so nothing available from him at this time - sounded like he'd be glad to make some flutes if he can get the right bamboo - Tod
Dang... it would be fun to get a nice bamboo flute...
toddyboy50 wrote:I recently emailed Chris Dawson regarding a D flute, and he has been unable to locate a good bamboo supply for these flutes, so nothing available from him at this time - sounded like he'd be glad to make some flutes if he can get the right bamboo - Tod
I was just visiting my folks' house in Connecticut over Thanksgiving. My brother had planted a little corner of the meadow with bamboo a few years back, just for kicks. It's now a substantial green swathe, and he went to cut some of it back so that it wouldn't take over as a non-endemic species.
So once you have the right bamboo, I'll plant it there for you and sell it back at twice the price!
Care to play the same thing (with no reverb) on that Bb you've got, driving it just as hard? A bit of lip overdrive alone, does not the wooden Irish flute sound make 
