Flute players who can sing

mahanpots · Post by **mahanpots** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:52 pm

I know a flute player among us who's got a great voice as well.

Rob, could you give us a clip of, say, Green Fields of France?

Remember singing it at O'Donnell's Pub after the dancing show at Sandhills Community College?

I'll let you tell the story.

Michael

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:42 pm

lixnaw wrote:i can't really think of anyone.

Cathal McConnell

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:48 pm

Flute and whistle playing improved my singing. I had the opportunity over the holidays to sing a duet with my wife while I was not playing any type of instrument but being accompanied by another live musician. No one still wants to pay to hear me sing but I was astounded.

AaronMalcomb · Post by **AaronMalcomb** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:00 pm

jemtheflute wrote:Anyone know any singing bagpipers? An even rarer fish, I think. Yet one could very effectively accompany oneself singing on any "cauld wind", bellows-blown bagpipe, just as hurdy-gurdy players or more "conventional" string or keyboard players can/do.

Allan MacDonald
Anna Murray
Pete Stewart

are bellows pipe players who sing while piping.

Add Desi Wilkinson and Hanz Araki to the list of singing flute players.

jemtheflute · Post by **jemtheflute** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:14 pm

cocusflute wrote:Cocusflute can sing.
Truth passes through three stages. First it is denied. Then the people who raise it are demonized. Finally, when it is irrefutable, it is widely agreed that everyone knew it all along.

OK, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary (Anyone got a petard to lend him? I doubt he took his own on his travels!

), I hereby adopt Stage 1, pro tempore.

Re: last post above - I believe Desi W is a piper too. Should have remembered! (And can't believe I forgot Cathal McConnell and Claire Mann........) Damn these multi-talented blighters!

sbfluter · Post by **sbfluter** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:29 pm

Ooh, I saw Shannon Heaton in concert the other night. She's wonderful as a fluter player, whistler and singer. I bought a CD and it's really good. Blue Skies Above is what it's called.

RudallRose · Post by **RudallRose** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:33 pm

you can, cocusflute?

singers: Kevin Henry (well, recitation)

there's a fellow in Minneapolis, can't remember his name, who plays great flute and has a killer bass voice. Played in a two-man group. Think his name was Sean. Big bearded guy.

People ask me: "Do you sing, too?"
I say: "That's why God made me a flute player: he didn't want me singing."

jemtheflute · Post by **jemtheflute** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:36 pm

David Migoya wrote: People ask me: "Do you sing, too?"
I say: "That's why God made me a flute player: he didn't want me singing."

Nah, that was just cover to avoid the rap for the fifing!

RudallRose · Post by **RudallRose** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:37 pm

ha!

I sing solo

so low you can't hear me!

chas · Post by **chas** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:44 pm

s1m0n wrote:
lixnaw wrote:i can't really think of anyone.
Cathal McConnell

D'OH! One of the best. At both.

His rendition of the Dark Eyed Gypsy brings me to tears just about every time I hear it.

cocusflute · Post by **cocusflute** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:01 pm

You've been warned.

My Name's Dan

ketida · Post by **ketida** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:17 pm

I play whistles, not flute. But I did learn a lot about breath control that has helped very much with my singing, while studying whistling.

Singing, like whistling, and I presume, fluting, needs attention not only to intonation, but spacing. Spacing for a quick breath in the right place, is something I learned from whistling.

Also that it's not that you run out of air, as you might think, but that you have too much left over. (Probably not true for flutes!)

CranberryDog · Post by **CranberryDog** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:28 pm

Tim Buckley: five octaves
Cyril Statum: three octaves

Cheers, Cyril

Terry McGee · Post by **Terry McGee** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:39 pm

I've heard it alleged that Hammy Hamilton is a good man for a song, but I forgot to put it to the test when I met him. I was surprised to be able to sing Cathal McConnel a song he didn't know. I was not able to play him a tune he didn't know, except one of my own, which is hardly fair.

The late Micho Russel and Josie McDermott were nice singers. As to singing pipers, I wonder if anyone remembers Seamus Ennis and Willie Clancy?

Terry

AaronMalcomb · Post by **AaronMalcomb** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:01 pm

Terry McGee wrote:The late Micho Russel and Josie McDermott were nice singers. As to singing pipers, I wonder if anyone remembers Seamus Ennis and Willie Clancy?

I can't believe I forgot Josie McDermott or did the OP only have currently performing players in mind?

Martin Nolan is another singing uilleann piper but maybe we're getting off topic with singing pipers.

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