Tell us something.: I'm a fiddler and, latterly, a fluter. I love the flute. I wish I'd always played it. I love the whistle as well. I'm blessed in having really lovely instruments for all of my musical interests.
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Tell us something.: I'm a fiddler and, latterly, a fluter. I love the flute. I wish I'd always played it. I love the whistle as well. I'm blessed in having really lovely instruments for all of my musical interests.
Location: Unimportant island off the great mainland of Europe
benhall.1 wrote:I know I know - Quantz was clearly rubbish.
I never said or implied that.
Well, you said:
I.D.10-t wrote:If you cannot bend a few cents, you should be playing a different instrument.
Ignoring the stuff in small type, this does seem to imply fairly strongly to me that there was something wrong with Quantz's having to have separate keys for Eb and D#. For it was he, Quantz, that did that.
Tell us something.: Playing Scottish and Irish music in California for 45 years. These days many discussions are migrating to Facebook but I prefer the online chat forum format.
Well off of Quantz and back to the Eb key, as somebody who learned uilleann pipes and flute more or less at the same time, I always used the Eb key in the same way that uilleann pipers use their little finger note, the note that pipers call "ghost D", to put little accents into the music.
In airs especially "ghost D" gracenotes often seperate two "back Ds", and the same effect can be done on the flute, using an Eb to seperate two middle Ds.
Listen to Joe McKenna play the pipes and hear how often ghost D (E flat) is used.
Richard Cook c1980 Quinn uilleann pipes
1945 Starck Highland pipes
Goldie Low D whistle
benhall.1 wrote:I know I know - Quantz was clearly rubbish.
I never said or implied that.
Well, you said:
I.D.10-t wrote:If you cannot bend a few cents, you should be playing a different instrument.
Ignoring the stuff in small type, this does seem to imply fairly strongly to me that there was something wrong with Quantz's having to have separate keys for Eb and D#. For it was he, Quantz, that did that.
I just didn't want my comment to be read as thinking that the entire Quantz tome was without merit.
"Be not deceived by the sweet words of proverbial philosophy. Sugar of lead is a poison."
Tell us something.: I'm a fiddler and, latterly, a fluter. I love the flute. I wish I'd always played it. I love the whistle as well. I'm blessed in having really lovely instruments for all of my musical interests.
Location: Unimportant island off the great mainland of Europe
Tell us something.: I'm a fiddler and, latterly, a fluter. I love the flute. I wish I'd always played it. I love the whistle as well. I'm blessed in having really lovely instruments for all of my musical interests.
Location: Unimportant island off the great mainland of Europe
Tell us something.: I'm a fiddler and, latterly, a fluter. I love the flute. I wish I'd always played it. I love the whistle as well. I'm blessed in having really lovely instruments for all of my musical interests.
Location: Unimportant island off the great mainland of Europe
