Flute players and leadership roles

[m31]

Harp! Voice!

[talasiga]

@m31, yes but the harp isn't exclusively melodic because you can strike more than one note at a time

[MTGuru]

Chief Elevator honours?

Here in the States, the Chief Elevator is what carries your boss from the ground floor up to the penthouse.

[harrywhohaa]

I passed my copy on to another chiffer a few years back, so I'm going by memory, but what I recall is that he posited that the three instruments already mentioned (flute, pipes, fiddle) occupy the top tier, with others like banjo, box(es), & concertina one shelf down - still respected, but not to the same degree. Backup instruments like bouzouki, bodhran & guitar might come next

So Banjo's and Bodhran's have climbed up from the leaf mulch are are actually on the hierarchy tree now, good for them!

[LorenzoFlute]

Who for us elevated the flute into our consciousness? For me, it was probably Michael Hand and Seamus Tansey.

Who is Michael Hand?
Yey we're up with fiddles and pipes

[Mr.Gumby]

Who is Michael Hand?

Yey we're up with fiddles and pipes

ehh.. no, not quite yet.

[LorenzoFlute]

Who is Michael Hand?

Ok if i search Mick (and not Michael) Hand is much easier to find stuff.

[LorenzoFlute]

Yey we're up with fiddles and pipes

ehh.. no, not quite yet.

[mutepointe]

What do you mean by "Leader"? I don't listen to ITM so forgive my ignorance but I'm wondering if, like with "normal music" (just teasing) you really mean "Front Man". Who is actually "leading" the band is the drummer or if there is no drummer, the rhythm instrument player. And who is leading the band on stage is not necessary the person who is the head of the band. That person may not even be on the stage.

[Kirk B]

What do you mean by "Leader"? I don't listen to ITM so forgive my ignorance but I'm wondering if, like with "normal music" (just teasing) you really mean "Front Man". Who is actually "leading" the band is the drummer or if there is no drummer, the rhythm instrument player. And who is leading the band on stage is not necessary the person who is the head of the band. That person may not even be on the stage.

I thought that McNamara was the leader of the band.

Kirk

[Adrian W.]

I'm reasonably certain, although I have never met any of the parties involved, that any band with Donal Lunny in it is Donal Lunny's band ....that's based on observing people for a few decades. That's not a bad thing, at all; he seems like a natural leader to me, and many people need that. Like Paddy with the Chieftains. It's hard; most peple shy from hard things.

I do think there is something to various personality types being attracted to cetain instruments....in my big band days I saw a study that was remarkably accurate regarding trumpet, tuba, french horn etc players.....I was a trombone player, and the personality sketch was very accurate (trombone players were supposed to be the hard partying comedian types....which was completely bang on, compared to the A tyoe trupet players etc.).

[pipersgrip]

What do you mean by "Leader"? I don't listen to ITM so forgive my ignorance but I'm wondering if, like with "normal music" (just teasing) you really mean "Front Man". Who is actually "leading" the band is the drummer or if there is no drummer, the rhythm instrument player. And who is leading the band on stage is not necessary the person who is the head of the band. That person may not even be on the stage.

They are like the driving force. The one who talks most of the time introducing the tunes.

[Denny]

the front man

[piobaire mor]

Getting back to the question of Matt Molloy. There is no doubt that Matt Molloy is a unique musician, however, there was and to an extent still is a wealth of very interesting flute styles in the country that make intriguing listening. I suppose Matt Molloy's impressive technical ability and power may have rendered a lot of these styles obsolete in the eyes of flute players who came after him, maybe not?