Has anyone heard this yet? What do you think? Are all realtime flute and whistle players doomed ?
Best,
K.
My eyes can’t have recovered from their man-with-common-cold-dosed-up-to-the-aforesaid state yet. I misread that title as “Antique Irish flute player on speed”
[wanders off, shaking head]
yep, Michael Eskin…
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/ios-apps-for-musicians/72068/1
In a word (and without even looking at it), no!
I think Michael is aware that his i-apps are “For entertainment purposes only.” Side-effects including but not limited to brain shrinkage, drooling, bar fights, and audience riots are strictly at the user’s own risk. 
Don’t know about speed. But there may be a pint of Hefeweizen involved. Makes the poor fellow completely goofy.
You need an extra LH finger to get the second octave? Doesn’t the iPad overblow?
Version 2 will require your fingers to pause for breath.
OK, it took me awhile to figure out how the C# was configured and it makes sense. What I didn’t see was how to get from one octave to the next.
Well done. What a beach of a time to be poor.
I learned this week that Michael wrote his first commercial computer app way back in the 80’s. It was a graphic stylus for the Commodore 64. Since then, his creative imagination has been working at a record pace creating new musical apps for apple products. I’m not suppose to let this out of the bag just yet, but since we are all friends here, I’ve heard that Michael is soon to release a new app for timpani and tuba, called Tx2, all on the same ipad screen. That should be wonderful.
Lecker.
It’s been my experince that there is never a good time to be poor, beach or no beach.
You have a point there. I can think of only one exception.
“Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
(Not meaning to start a religious controversary, I’d gladly accept other occasions when being poor might come in handy. I could use the good news.)
Of course they are - haven’t you noticed that since the FIFA computer game series was released to the market nobody plays real soccer anymore?
Q. Do you know why so many kids play soccer?
A. So they don’t have to watch the game.
If you already have an iPad, it’s the best flute you can get for a buck. 
(or maybe not, if there’s a better one, get it instead…)
Yes, there is an octave switch, activated with the left little finger. Pretty easy to get used to. Other than that, the fingerings are pretty much like the real instrument, every possible combination of fingers down does what one might expect.
Does it have dynamics? No.
Does it have finger vibrato. Yeah, sort of.
Does it have any sort of tonal variation at all. No, not really.
Does it beat not playing while on the bus, train, or in your office. Yes.
Does it replace a real instrument. No, not even close.
Whether it’s worth your dollar or not, that’s between you and your deity.
Michael
So, the next question is, ever speedier progress being what it is, how long will it be before orchestral players are expected to play these things exclusively, with all the dynamics, finger vibrato, and tonal variations they can handle - mere wooden, plastic, metal or whatever, conical or tubular flutes having become inadequate instruments in a continuum of Eskin musical discovery?
Best,
K.
Not for me because I need my pinkie for L3… but it’s a moot point because I’m missing the iPad as well as the finger!
The version I see available to download is very different than that video clip. I find it easier to turn the iPad angled away from me like holding a whistle and using my left pinky for the octave button. Occasional fun for what it is. Such as when in a boring lecture… just pop in the ear buds and start practicing!
Yes, I changed the layout in the latest version to be vertical rather than split in half in the original version. Too many people found the split version confusing, even though I think it’s ergonomically a better layout for playing on a tablet.
Nah! You should have stuck to your guns, Michael. Would Boehm have caved in if someone had suggested that the G# key should be closed-standing?
Oh wait …
[It’s down here, 'cos I’m waiting for a number of different possible reactions to that heh heh]