OT - Dirty Laundry... got any?
- AaronMalcomb
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Which you do very well, Casey. I enjoyed your demo while visiting your workshop last spring.Casey Burns wrote:I would much rather play the Galician bagpipes - and do almost every day! I have a lovely set by the elder Seivane, now retired, that is my favorite instrument to play.
More dirty laundry from me. Boxwood flutes (in general)... what's all the fuss? I really don't get it. Though I've puffed on some nice ones (Olwell, Burns) I don't undertsand what the hype is. Boxwood flutes don't look like flutes. They look like recorders or table legs.
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I can say, in all honesty, that my love for boxwood has nothing to do with anything anyone has said about it. My favorite thing about it is the smell of good boxwood...it's like cookie dough. Secondly, it is lighter in weight (and, thus, is more comfortable to play) than blackwood. It's golden color oozes warmth. Admittedly, not all boxwood is wonderful and lovable. Some seems kind of dull and maple-like, but the good stuff is alive and warm to me is a way that other woods are not.AaronMalcomb wrote:Boxwood flutes (in general)... what's all the fuss?
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more confessions....
I have been known to insert a french fry (chipie) into the end of my flute and blow it out like a dart gun at other players at our local session.
I also combined a "pit-tuba" with my Uilleann pipe bag and bellows to provide constant "pit" music at Lark Camp one year.
www.pittuba.com
I have been known to insert a french fry (chipie) into the end of my flute and blow it out like a dart gun at other players at our local session.
I also combined a "pit-tuba" with my Uilleann pipe bag and bellows to provide constant "pit" music at Lark Camp one year.
www.pittuba.com
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Hah! Blackwood flutes don't look like wooden flutes, they look like plastic.AaronMalcomb wrote:More dirty laundry from me. Boxwood flutes (in general)... what's all the fuss? I really don't get it. Though I've puffed on some nice ones (Olwell, Burns) I don't undertsand what the hype is. Boxwood flutes don't look like flutes. They look like recorders or table legs.
The boxwood thing is purely a matter of taste. I like the mellow warmth of the sound and the light weight. I don't think it's better, I just like it. I don't like the weight of blackwood, nor the kind of harsh darkness of the sound. I find that cocobolo is a nice compromise; it's a little lighter and a bit more exciting sounding than boxwood.
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wolvy wrote:more confessions....
I have been known to insert a french fry (chipie) into the end of my flute and blow it out like a dart gun at other players at our local session.
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... and when you take the headjoint off a Burke tinwhistle and flutter-tongue while blowing real hard? A police whistle, I swear. Gets the old folks every time.
Wolvy, I think an audio clip of the pit-tuba in action is in order.
Wolvy, I think an audio clip of the pit-tuba in action is in order.
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- AaronMalcomb
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If a boxwood Olwell can't convince me I don't see where anything short of DM's Rudall would. And even if the Rudall did change my mind (which I may just take you up on that offer next time I make it to Denver) a cocus or blackwood Rudall would probably turn me back around.
Just remember that my tastes brought me to take up the GHB long before I considered the flute. So lightness and a mellow sound won't be persuading factors.
Cheers,
Aaron
Just remember that my tastes brought me to take up the GHB long before I considered the flute. So lightness and a mellow sound won't be persuading factors.
Cheers,
Aaron
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My Dirty Laundry is about the fact that wooden flute is hard to play in tune. You have PLAY wooden flutes in tune cause it's never in tune if you play all the notes the same way...
Well, I considere it's farely impossible to change your embouchure for a single note (say a too flat F sharp) within a reel played fast...so you have to get used to the fact that when you play fast, you're never completly in tune.
Maybe I'm a bit capricious, but I can hear when a note is out of tune even withing a fast tune. And I think it's sad.
If the C nat is in tune, the C sharp is not, so the inverse. That's what I heard on every flutes I tried yet...
But wooden flute still got the prettiest sound of all instruments in this world so I do my laundry and I go with it!
Well, I considere it's farely impossible to change your embouchure for a single note (say a too flat F sharp) within a reel played fast...so you have to get used to the fact that when you play fast, you're never completly in tune.
Maybe I'm a bit capricious, but I can hear when a note is out of tune even withing a fast tune. And I think it's sad.
If the C nat is in tune, the C sharp is not, so the inverse. That's what I heard on every flutes I tried yet...
But wooden flute still got the prettiest sound of all instruments in this world so I do my laundry and I go with it!