i declare the irish flute to have a new name

jemtheflute · Post by **jemtheflute** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:07 am

Not being a deep fellow, I think that's a bit shall(youm)ow. (

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I too have on quite a few occasions been asked if my wooden flute is a clarinet, but I've never had anyone insist it must be!

Post by **Nanohedron** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 12:42 pm

jemtheflute wrote:I too have on quite a few occasions been asked if my wooden flute is a clarinet, but I've never had anyone insist it must be!

I'm in the same strange place as Clark. The fellow was observant enough to note - unique among the curious, in my experience - that the fingering was clarinetish. So that, and coupled with the blackwood and silver, made for his obstinacy. Funny how he missed the other details, though.

It's funny how what one thinks of as obvious just.......isn't. Really, I believe it's the keys that throw most people off when they're confronted with non-Boehm sticks. The keyless players don't seem to get the same confusion. I'm on a mission, though. Once I make sure people are clear on what the creature is, I've been telling them, "So, any time you see a wind instrument held like *this*, you've got a flute, some kind of flute. Always a flute. Whatever it's made of." And they are relieved and grateful, stronger of mind, and can spread the word on my behalf. The virus spreads.

Only now that damned bawu popped up recently . Although it's transverse, it's not truly a flute, AND it sounds like a clarinet.

You just can't win.

daiv · Post by **daiv** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:11 pm

Nanohedron wrote:
jemtheflute wrote:I too have on quite a few occasions been asked if my wooden flute is a clarinet, but I've never had anyone insist it must be!
I'm in the same strange place as Clark. The fellow was observant enough to note - unique among the curious, in my experience - that the fingering was clarinetish. So that, and coupled with the blackwood and silver, made for his obstinacy. Funny how he missed the other details, though.

It's funny how what one thinks of as obvious just.......isn't. Really, I believe it's the keys that throw most people off when they're confronted with non-Boehm sticks. The keyless players don't seem to get the same confusion. I'm on a mission, though. Once I make sure people are clear on what the creature is, I've been telling them, "So, any time you see a wind instrument held like *this*, you've got a flute, some kind of flute. Always a flute. Whatever it's made of." And they are relieved and grateful, stronger of mind, and can spread the word on my behalf. The virus spreads.

Only now that damned bawu popped up recently . Although it's transverse, it's not truly a flute, AND it sounds like a clarinet.

You just can't win.

i blame the chinese.

Marge: Homer! Our son joined the army!
Homer: Eh. Big deal. By the time Bart's 18 we're gonna control the world. We're China, right?

clark · Post by **clark** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 4:45 am

Oh I see that the REALLY cheap bore oil I use was made in China. Probably tis lead based and has rotted me brain. I probably do play a clarinet from the side and just don't know it meself!

Clark[/i]

jemtheflute · Post by **jemtheflute** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 4:50 am

jemtheflute wrote:Not being a deep fellow, I think that's a bit shall(youm)ow. ( )

Oh boy (hautboy), they're ignoring my puns now! I've obviously (over)blown it!

Cathy Wilde · Post by **Cathy Wilde** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:39 am

<snicker>

I remember playing duets for querflöeten in high school & college. Being as it was the late 70's/early80's, my duet buddy and I thought "queerflute" was pretty humorous.

jemtheflute · Post by **jemtheflute** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:59 am

Cathy Wilde wrote:<snicker>

I remember playing duets for querflöeten in high school & college. Being as it was the late 70's/early80's, my duet buddy and I thought "queerflute" was pretty humorous.

Makes you cross, doesn't it? And did you float if you fell in?

Cathy Wilde · Post by **Cathy Wilde** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:28 am

Actually, it just made for a lot of bad jokes from others since this gal and I were best friends, too. In the spirit of the game we tried to register for the local solo and ensemble competitions as "The Queerflutes" but the administrators would have nothing to do with it.

jemtheflute · Post by **jemtheflute** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:42 am

As they say (purportedly) in Yorkshire, "There's nowt so queer as folks"!

Perhaps the administrators were simply observing that you were playing perfectly "normal" (or "straight") Boehm, metal flutes? If you'd already gotten into things wooden, then perhaps (given mainstream blinkeredness of one kind or another) they would have thought you were playing queer flutes? Alternatively, if you'd had some banana shaped period boxwood traversos you could have demonstrated you were bent.

I do hope you didn't play too gaily for them!

Tootler · Post by **Tootler** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 5:08 pm

jemtheflute wrote:As they say <s>(purportedly)</s> in Yorkshire, "There's nowt so queer as folks"!

Perfectly good Yorkshire saying

Back on Topic

I've been several times asked what my (keyless) flute is. When I tell them it's a flute, I typically get a blank "Pull the other leg it's got bells on" look. Even when I put it up to my mouth and play a few notes they don't always seem convinced.

daiv · Post by **daiv** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:16 pm

Cathy Wilde wrote:Actually, it just made for a lot of bad jokes from others since this gal and I were best friends, too. In the spirit of the game we tried to register for the local solo and ensemble competitions as "The Queerflutes" but the administrators would have nothing to do with it.

hahahaha. good for you! nothing like giving the old administrators a run for their money!

tootler wrote: Back on Topic

I've been several times asked what my (keyless) flute is. When I tell them it's a flute, I typically get a blank "Pull the other leg it's got bells on" look. Even when I put it up to my mouth and play a few notes they don't always seem convinced.

i have never run into any problems like that with anybody! they just think i'm weird and take my word for it.

daiv · Post by **daiv** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:17 am

jemtheflute wrote:
jemtheflute wrote:Not being a deep fellow, I think that's a bit shall(youm)ow. ( )
Oh boy (hautboy), they're ignoring my puns now! I've obviously (over)blown it!

no, it just took us a couple days to get it!

daiv · Post by **daiv** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:22 am

clark wrote:Once when we were taking a break during a gig a fellow came up to me and said, "Nice clarinet playing...although I've never heard one sound quite like that before." So I said, "Well that's 'cus it's a flute." He rolled his eyes and said, "Look, I haven't had so much to drink that I don't know a clarinet when I see one. It's black with silver keys...clarinet!" "Well," says I "did you ever see a clarinet played from the side before?" Undaunted he said, "No I haven't. That must be how you get it to sound so unusual!" I took a deep breath and said, "Yup, not even Benny Goodman can play his clarinet from the side like that." The fellow wandered off probably satisfied that he had been clever enough to not let that clarinet player pull his leg.

So a flute by any other name is a clarinet.

Clark

i was writing in an email in response to someone about flutes, and i looked to the right and google had clarinet ads. so apparently thinks that the irish flute is a clarinet, too!

daiv · Post by **daiv** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:42 am

what about instead of saying pipes, you could say bipes? a portmanteux (or a po, as i like to say) of bag pies?

i really wanted to start a new thread to let everyone know that, but i thought i best behave.

daiv · Post by **daiv** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:44 am

daiv wrote:what about instead of saying pipes, you could say bipes? a portmanteux (or a po, as i like to say) of bag pies?

i really wanted to start a new thread to let everyone know that, but i thought i best behave.

i also cant take credit for that. a friend of mine made it up. he also came up with "sloosh" as a slurred version of solution. found sloosh, prob, say bipe stead pipe! guess no prob frace...