

Can anyone tell me how to get more information about an Irish Flute maker. Makes Rudall and Rose style flutes, keyed and keyless. Try also joining the Chiff and Fipple Forum - plenty of advise on lots of. Casey's Folk Flute model is popular among beginners.


Rolling Stone did an issue with their list of the 100 greatest. Wooden flutes with ergonomic keys for Irish and Breton music.įlutes for Irish and other traditional music in a variety of keys, based on acoustical models of 19th century makers. 'This isn't at all timely, and I've known about it for some time. Maker of transverse flutes, recorders, whistles, and low whistles. Both the influential German flute maker Theobald Boehm (17941881) and the Belgian organologist and instrument maker. Also repairs and restores flutes.ĭealer of old, rare, and unusual musical instruments including flutes.ĭealer of a wide variety of musical instrumentes, including bamboo and wooden flutes, Irish flutes, etc. Keyed and keyless wooden flutes optimized for Irish music, based on Pratten, Rudall and Rose and Carte, or Hawkes.įlutes in D, Bb, and Eb based on designs of 19th century flutemakers as well as his own designs. Maker of wooden Irish concert flutes, wooden whistles, low whistles, bamboo flutes, and bodhran sticks.įlutes and digeridoos in bamboo in many keys. Makers of Irish flutes and uilleann pipes. Maker of flutes (keyed and keyless) and French bagpipes Keyless wooden flutes in D (and soon in Eb), made from Guayacan wood The renowned German flutemaker and player Theobald Boehm developed this instrument in the mid-1800s because he believed it would make the flute louder and improve its internal tuning, especially in the third octave. They have a cylindrical bore and a complex key system. I've been playing a Clarke (I really like the wooden fipple sound, and the Clarke was the only cheep but good whistle I liked) but now I want to go a bit more 'upper class', although I know that a good instrument doesn't mean that I'll suddenly become a b. Garry won the senior All-Ireland flute title in 1988, has played with a number of respected groups (he is now a member of the legendary Kilfenora Ceili Band), and has. Makes flutes based on Pratten and Rudall and Rose models, unkeyed and block-mounted keysīoehm-system silver flute and wooden head joint maker. Boehm-system flutes are available in metal or wood. chiff and fipple forums - index page chiff & fipple: the tinwhistle internetexperience. Garry Shannon is the eldest of a celebrated musical family that includes accordion-player Sharon Shannon and banjo-player Mary Shannon of The Bumblebees. Two-piece Irish D flutes in African Blackwood. Search: First Nameīoehm-system blackwood flutes with sterling silver keywork also makes blackwood-and-silver whistles in several keys.
