CP: "Irish Flute" for iPad

eskin · Post by **eskin** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 1:23 pm

Available in mid-October, "Irish Flute" for the iPad:

http://www.tradlessons.com/IrishFlute.html

Will be priced at $0.99 for the first week or two after release.

I'll post a message to this thread when it hits the iTunes app store, most likely around Oct 10.

Cheers,

Michael

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 1:53 pm

well ya've gone too far this time Michael,
yer goin' ta hell fer sure.

I'll save ya a seat.

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 6:58 pm

I wonder how soon it will be before someone carries one of Michael's ipad instruments into an Irish session? I hear the moderator now saying, "No, son, you can't play your ipad. Sorry"

Elvellon · Post by **Elvellon** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 2:59 am

Would buy this if I had an iPad.

LorenzoFlute · Post by **LorenzoFlute** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 5:10 am

From the title, I first thought you were looking for a trade...

MarkP · Post by **MarkP** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 8:12 am

could we add to the FAQ section...

Q: Why?

LorenzoFlute · Post by **LorenzoFlute** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 8:42 am

Maybe he earns something from it...

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 8:47 am

I wanna see a whole iPad session.

In the meantime, there are two things that I would like folks to keep me posted on:
1. If someone starts a controversial thread on any website, could you please send me the link. I just love reading controversary and would hate to miss something. There will be those folks who are going to go all ballistic. Not only will he have the traditionalists after him, he'll have those darn folks who think embouchure is the bomb. I'm really interested in what the latter say.
2. I like to know the locations of bonfire where they're planning on burning him at the stake. If he's going to hell with Denny, he might as well get a head start.

Oh, one more thing, did it not cross your mind to sell a collector's edition at some crazy price like $9,999.99, so that those collectors of Irish Flutes would have something to buy and brag about?

Congratulations.

eskin · Post by **eskin** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 10:04 am

If you want controversy, just go over to thesession.org and ask if anyone can give you the sheet music for some celtic songs on recorder...

MarkP, great idea. Thanks for the suggestion.

radcliff · Post by **radcliff** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 1:21 pm

I don't have an Ipad yet, but....
I'd like to have a different position for the flute pieces!
it would be a far better improvement to have the score ecc in the middle
and the left piece on the top left, while the right piece in the bottom (as it is now)
IMHO the result would be that you have a more similar position to a real flute.....

m31 · Post by **m31** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 6:22 pm

Needs a gas bar (breath left) and a "take breath" button.

If you want to get fancy, add a star power mode, activated by tipping the iPad into an awkward position.

Terry McGee · Post by **Terry McGee** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 6:32 pm

eskin wrote: Will be priced at $0.99 for the first week or two after release.

Hmmm, Casey. Can we match that?

Terry

dlambert · Post by **dlambert** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 7:15 am

I just can't bring myself to let those controlling so and so's at Apple have any of my money. Plus I absolutely hate my iMac. You'll need to put the app out in Android format like tunepal.

LorenzoFlute · Post by **LorenzoFlute** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 7:33 am

dlambert wrote:I just can't bring myself to let those controlling so and so's at Apple have any of my money. Plus I absolutely hate my iMac. You'll need to put the app out in Android format like tunepal.

You're the man.

eskin · Post by **eskin** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 9:50 am

radcliffe wrote:I don't have an Ipad yet, but....
I'd like to have a different position for the flute pieces!
it would be a far better improvement to have the score ecc in the middle
and the left piece on the top left, while the right piece in the bottom (as it is now)
IMHO the result would be that you have a more similar position to a real flute.....

The orientation of the instrument is designed for best ergonomics when playing with the iPad in the lap. It has proven to be very effective on both my Uilleann, and Scottish bagpipes apps for the iPad. It takes a few minutes to get used to at first, but very quickly the brain adjusts and you simply play tunes on the iPad like you would on the real instrument and the fact that its on a touch screen disappears.

Translating a flute-like instrument to a touch screen designed to played in the lap requires that the left hand be rotated 180 degrees, but the relative positions of the holes and their relationship to the scale doesn't change in the app. What I tell people to do is just forget that you're playing on an iPad and just play it like you would the flute. I've seen it happen many times, after a few minutes of adjustment there is an "aha!" moment, and then the tunes start flowing.

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