Coolio!

[m31]

I though Matt Molloy was the only one who danced a melody over a drone. Check it out at 3:01

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYy5rlaBWkY

Can we say flexible embouchure?!

[Kirk B]

What, when you pay $11,000.00 for a flute it doesn't just do that by itself?

Seriously though, that's amazing.

[Rob Sharer]

[Kirk B]

Kickin' it like it's "reel".

[Cathy Wilde]

I miss that piece. Couldn't even get thru the third set of variations now.

[fearfaoin]

As I play through the valley of old Strathmore
I take a look at my life and think I want nothing more
'Cause I've been whistlin' and flutin' so long,
Even Joanie Madden thinks that my tone is strong!
But I ain't never played a tune if nobody heard it.
Hide away my room? You know that's unheard of!

I been spendin' most my life
Living in a fluter's paradise.
I been spendin' most my life
Living in a fluter's paradise.
Crans are only a compromise,
They've no place in a fluter's paradise.
My embouchure is really nice
I'm living in a fluter's paradise.

[Rob Sharer]

I might have to get medieval on your hiney!




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[MikeS]

I've got to put in a plug for one of my old teachers. Keep in mind he's doing this on a five-key instrument that's German to boot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyJkyi0BKPk&NR=1

[celticmodes]

OMG I remember that piece. I learned it on silver flute when I was very young. That part @ 3.01 was my favorite. I sucked at it fierce, though. She's quite good at it.

[jemtheflute]

I stumbled across that KL clip from searching for "wooden flute" on YouTube in my first few forays there-on a few years back...... Very impressive, but it puzzled me because I know James Galway's recording of a set of variations on Carnival of Venice which are much better (the variations, that is) and there are rather more of them...... I think JG's set was by C19th Italian virtuoso Briccialdi (the guy apparently responsible for the non Bohm B/Bb thumb-keys on the modern standard Bohm flute) and I'd never heard either recording or mention of this Genin set before.

[jemtheflute]

This thread has made me dig out an ancient cassette tape of off-air recordings of Galway from the late 1970s (my early days as a fluter!) to refresh my recollection of the Briccialdi - I was right..... as in the Genin setting is both shorter and much less exciting - if you like virtuoso showpieces (I confess I have a grudging soft-spot/can't help being stunned by the sheer technical brilliance....) - I don't really see why anyone at top pro level like KL would play the Genin when they could play the Briccialdi!

So now I've gone to find a less mussed up recording of wee Jimmy's performance. It is on i-tunes for 79p and Amazon MP3 downloads for 69p. It is evidently the same recording from 1975-ish when JG was in his real prime, but reissued umpteen times.

[Rob Sharer]

To the Off-Topic Posters:


Could we PLEASE stick to talking about Gangsta Rap? Check the thread title if you feel otherwise.



rob

[m31]

This thread has made me dig out an ancient cassette tape of off-air recordings of Galway from the late 1970s (my early days as a fluter!) to refresh my recollection of the Briccialdi - I was right..... as in the Genin setting is both shorter and much less exciting - if you like virtuoso showpieces (I confess I have a grudging soft-spot/can't help being stunned by the sheer technical brilliance....) - I don't really see why anyone at top pro level like KL would play the Genin when they could play the Briccialdi!

So now I've gone to find a less mussed up recording of wee Jimmy's performance. It is on i-tunes for 79p and Amazon MP3 downloads for 69p. It is evidently the same recording from 1975-ish when JG was in his real prime, but reissued umpteen times.

Thanks for doing that. Could this be it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9edKJi_zLo

(listen in HQ)

[m31]

To the Off-Topic Posters:


Could we PLEASE stick to talking about Gangsta Rap? Check the thread title if you feel otherwise.



rob

My sister had me saying coolio and I had no idea where it came from until now (I had thought it had something to do with Julio).

So in keeping with posting etiquette, does anyone know any sick gangsta' hornpipes?

[Rob Sharer]

"The Humours of Compton"



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