We are pleased to be announcing the 11th annual Boxwood Festival, Ltd., scheduled for July 23-28, 2006 in beautiful Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Please join us for...
Many thanks for you information about Boxwood, I am sure it will be a great summer experience! Yours, Jed Wentz We are pleased to be announcing the 11th annual...
Dear Fellows, This is to announce that back issues of TRAVERSO, the historical flute newsletter, Volumes 11 (1999) to 17 (2005), are now available in PDF...
Rafael Dressler's "New and Complete Instructions for the Flute", Op. 68, was published in London in 1827, and in New York in 1828. It is intended for the...
Good man, Rick! ... Hmmm, sounds like what we modern* Irish players refer to as "the Hard D". (We could do a "hard E" too if we had time to press the Eb key!)...
Thank you Rick! A proposition: Could you zip the pictures and offer for download in this form too? That would make printing out easier Thomas -- Flötenbau...
Hi Rick and thanks for this very interesting post. Is "classical" your word, or does Dressler use it himself? Does he name Nicholson and Lindsay as adherents...
Hi Rick and thanks for this very interesting post. Is "classical" your word, or does Dressler use it himself? Does he name Nicholson and Lindsay as adherents...
Hi Rick and thanks for this very interesting post. Is "classical" your word, or does Dressler use it himself? Does he name Nicholson and Lindsay as adherents...
... Already done! You may have missed this on the page http://www.oldflutes.com/facsimiles/dressler/Thumbnails.html , but I mentioned that a zip file of high...
Hi Rick and thanks for the details. I agree that "classical" is a good word to use of Dressler's aesthetic, though it refers to a style that was emergent at...
Hi group i keep finding all these people on the web and even descriptions of instruments as Irish flute. Can someone describe why an eight key flute built in...
When the Boehm flute eclipsed the conical 8 key flute in popularity amongst orchestral players, the old 8-keys were devalued, and traditional Irish dance...
... The Irish flute-playing community (whether in Ireland or elsewhere and whether Irish or not) is simply the biggest market for old and new old-style flutes....
... Guiness is even also being made in Belgium (with more ethanol and more carbondioxide, yey !!!) Peter, Flemish by conviction Practical agnostic Catholic...
... When the flute entered the Irish dance music scene in the 19C, players sought out the common and inexpensive instruments of the time. So they picked up...
Hello All, Just wondering if some of you could help with a new project: the Amsterdam Conservatory (once known as the Sweelinck) is planning on starting a...
Hello, End of June conflicts with exams (sigh!) in many European universities (although that may change in a few years in the wake of the Bologna reform), so...
... Were flutes of German manafacture popular in Ireland? The photographic evidence for old Irish musicians suggests that in America German flutes were...
... I hope that people who know will answer. I once read, on the back of a some cassette recording, that John McKenna's "favorite flute" was a Viennese flute ...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Hawkes-and-Son-8-Key-Flute-Irish-Wood-Wooden- Flute_W0QQitemZ7396683247QQcategoryZ10183QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZV iewItem here is an...
... Further than that, I think. Most of the people I know who play Irish music are not Irish at all. ... No mention of him in the NLI. Can't get them all, I...
Sure, there are folks of all different kinds of ancestry playing IrTrad in New York sessions, including my teacher, Bill Ochs, who happens to be Jewish. I met...
Hello Ardal. Thanks for your insights on the aristocracy-sponsored continental performances versus the British musicians who played for less exclusive...
Hey Jed, Here are some dates and workshops to peruse, from the Early Music America Website: 9 - 23 July, 2006 Amherst Early Music Festival, New London, CT USA ...
CHIPOTL HAGGIS AND A HOME BREW!!! HEAVEN! Now it's time to start practicing the Highland Fling..... THanks Kim, for the list that is a very intelligent way to...
In a different context I've had precisely this discussion with people here in france. Nancy Haddens class in Valtice takes place the first week in july but for...
This seems like an appropriate moment to mention a summer course in which I teach in the town of Amilly ( near Montargis,in the Loiret region of France). This...
