When did Molloy switch from Rudall to Pratten?
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When did Molloy switch from Rudall to Pratten?
Just listening to Matt Molloy's "Heathery Breeze" yet again, really listening to his tone, phrasing, intonation. I've misplaced the cover to the CD, but think he is playing a Rudall on the tracks he plays on D flute, e.g. tracks 1 and 12, as well as the waltz/aire in A(track #8?). Then, I listened to his Miss Monaghan reel on "Music at Matt Molloy's" track #9. I believe I've read that Molloy switched to a Boosey Pratten and is now playing an Olwell Pratten. Did Molloy already switch to his Boosey on the "Music at Matt Molloy" tracks, or is he still playing his Rudall? Can anyone give me a specific timeline when Molloy switched and his reason for doing so?
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Sorry lads but there is way too much ignorant guessing going on here.
The Eb he used on the black album was not a Pratten. Yes he is holding the R&R on the second Bothy Band LP. and yes he is holding the Pratten on the cover of The Stony Steps. He probably started using that flute as his main instrument around 1983/4. That info from Paul Davis from a conversation I probably had with him in 1985 or 86.
I think there used to be an interview with Molloy somewhere on the net that might give a bit more info.
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The Eb he used on the black album was not a Pratten. Yes he is holding the R&R on the second Bothy Band LP. and yes he is holding the Pratten on the cover of The Stony Steps. He probably started using that flute as his main instrument around 1983/4. That info from Paul Davis from a conversation I probably had with him in 1985 or 86.
I think there used to be an interview with Molloy somewhere on the net that might give a bit more info.
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"I borrowed a Rudall and Rose -- I was presented with a Rudall and Rose to see what I thought of it. It was a beauty. A friend of mine gave it to me. I did all of the Bothy Band work with a Rudall and Rose." "What I play [at the time of this interview] is a Boosey...I keep going back to it. I'm playing it for the last 25 years now." Matt Molloy, 26 September 1997.
Yep--it's from the interview. I read it awhile ago and was too dog tired to remember and go back. Thanks for redirecting me.
Yep--it's from the interview. I read it awhile ago and was too dog tired to remember and go back. Thanks for redirecting me.
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Who made that E flat? It sure looks like a Pratten, in photos I've seen of it. But of course other makers made that style as well.kenr wrote:Sorry lads but there is way too much ignorant guessing going on here.
The Eb he used on the black album was not a Pratten.
For decades I played a flute made c1860 by Koehler & Son, London, which is a dead-ringer for a Pratten. The bore, fingerhole spacing, and key style is identical.
I used to own a c1880 Boosey Pratten E flat that looked just like Molloy's.
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I have no idea who made that flute but I think you and I must be looking at different flutes. I've never seen anything by Boosey that looks like the flute on the black album. The rings and key pattern are totally different. I'm using Pratten as referring to the Pratten Perfected model made by Boosey not the generic description that modern makers have started to adopt for anything with bigger holes.
The keys on the flute on the black album don't looks like the Hawkes pattern either. although there are a lot of Hawkes Eb flutes around.
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The keys on the flute on the black album don't looks like the Hawkes pattern either. although there are a lot of Hawkes Eb flutes around.
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The Eb flute on the "black" album (funny we call it that....seeing as Seamus Tansey's recording was really the first "black album."...
anyway.....the flute he used had a banded head piece that appears on the original cover (i have one of them with the vinyl inside), then was airbrushed out because it didn't look like a traditional flute.....
now the latest CD versions (i saw one at Virgin yesterday) has the original banded flute photo back again.
Amusing.
I've tried for some time to figure out which maker it is by the shapes of the keys and cannot. It may just be a nice-playing german variety that he had around seeing as his father/granddad played, too.
it's possible.
apparently he hadn't planned on doing the recording in Eb at all, but Donal Lunny's zook was tuned there, so that's what it was.
the YouTube clip of the Bucks (great clip) at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHcDY76a_eY
you can see the banding at the 1:45 mark.
ps....at the 1:40 mark you get a great look at the foot keys and they speak "German" flute to me.
anyway.....the flute he used had a banded head piece that appears on the original cover (i have one of them with the vinyl inside), then was airbrushed out because it didn't look like a traditional flute.....
now the latest CD versions (i saw one at Virgin yesterday) has the original banded flute photo back again.
Amusing.
I've tried for some time to figure out which maker it is by the shapes of the keys and cannot. It may just be a nice-playing german variety that he had around seeing as his father/granddad played, too.
it's possible.
apparently he hadn't planned on doing the recording in Eb at all, but Donal Lunny's zook was tuned there, so that's what it was.
the YouTube clip of the Bucks (great clip) at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHcDY76a_eY
you can see the banding at the 1:45 mark.
ps....at the 1:40 mark you get a great look at the foot keys and they speak "German" flute to me.
Sorry Dave, but that just can't be German flute.
Everyone knows you can't make German flute sound like that.
I had a chance to play a Boosey Eb a few times a while back... Like a little Pratten but in rocket form.
I still have dreams about it.
Everyone knows you can't make German flute sound like that.
I had a chance to play a Boosey Eb a few times a while back... Like a little Pratten but in rocket form.
I still have dreams about it.
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Yes I miss it to...Aanvil wrote:Sorry Dave, but that just can't be German flute.
Everyone knows you can't make German flute sound like that.
I had a chance to play a Boosey Eb a few times a while back... Like a little Pratten but in rocket form.
I still have dreams about it.
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