You Know You Are An Irish Flute Player When....

Sillydill · Post by **Sillydill** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:08 pm

You look at wedding bands and wonder if they come large enough to fit your flute!

Post by **Nanohedron** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:10 pm

You speak of tongueing and throating, people snicker, and you are genuinely surprised.

BillG · Post by **BillG** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:28 pm

. . .you do a glottal stop 'tween every five words in conversation.

Sillydill · Post by **Sillydill** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 5:19 pm

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You look at the stacks of pipe for a new water main and wonder what keys they would play in!

Jack Bradshaw · Post by **Jack Bradshaw** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 5:53 pm

Sillydill wrote:You look at wedding bands and wonder if they come large enough to fit your flute!

Oh! You've seen my M&E !

Aanvil · Post by **Aanvil** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 5:54 pm

"Why yes... actually... I do have my flute... its right here!"

Contents of your (ok... MY) briefcase:

humistat (actually a big sponge in a zip-loc bag)

hygrometer

homemade cork grease

small roll of tenon thread

some loose change and a few dollar bills (for the parking meter)

a pen (paper optional... that is what napkins are for)

silver polishing cloth

blistex

toothpaste

digital tuner (meh... it doesn't get used really)

digital recorder

liquid shellac pad cement

bamboo cleaning rod

"dew" rag

More whistles you'll ever need (in the side pouch... I don't play them but I don't have the heart to leave them at home)

My 8-key cocus Wylde

No books

No briefs

In fact nothing work related at all.

Coffee · Post by **Coffee** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 6:49 pm

... when you find yourself doing rolls taps and cuts while singing.

Terry McGee · Post by **Terry McGee** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:57 pm

... when everytime you mean to type "influence" it comes out as "influtence"

Terry

pancelticpiper · Post by **pancelticpiper** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:58 pm

You know you're a "real" Irish fluteplayer when:

You shove the tuning slide all the way in before you try any flute.

You twist the footjoint round so that the keys are facing away.

You have all the keys off and the holes crudely plugged

or...

You have rubber bands round all the keys so they don't leak.

You have the head and barrel wrapped in electrical tape, but "water" still drips out when you play.

greenspiderweb · Post by **greenspiderweb** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:12 am

...when you check this website page more often than the news or weather!:

https://www.irishflutestore.com/newsite ... s.php?pf=1

Edit: OK, maybe an Irish flute player with a HABIT!

Cathy Wilde · Post by **Cathy Wilde** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:36 am

As if playing the flute decently isn't hard enough .... you take up the uilleann pipes in a harebrained scheme to improve your flute playing.

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:42 am

You convince the members of your folk group to transpose songs into the keys of D & G.

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 7:46 am

When you are sending a note to your team that you won't be in today because you think you might have caught the flute.

(I've typed the word "flute" so many times, that it's a real challenge to type just "flu," as my fingers want to add the "te" automatically.)

Yes, I've really done this.

--James

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 7:56 am

You play the flute? Cool! What's it made of, does it have keys?

Oh, one of those flutes.

Sillydill · Post by **Sillydill** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 9:54 am

Here's a Rorschach Test:

Look at the following figures and tell me what you see?

If you answered

a) Irish Flute

B) Whistle

Then Congrats!!!

You are an Irish Flute Player!!!

P.S. I'm with you James, been there done that!