Anyone ever tried a Siccama flute for Irish trad music?

Irish Flute
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David, stick around and you’ll learn lots from us! Hehe :wink: Thanks all for your answers regarding the Siccama. There was a lovely one stamped and numbered on ebay, but was taken off by the owner who I think found an offer elsewhere. Anyway, my next question is the following: in an interview Patrick Olwell says his son made a flute out of a carrot, so, has anyone out there…

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http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=carrot+flute&search_sort=relevance&search_category=0&page=

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Nice one Denny. Now, who here is the expert on carrot flutes? Doooooooh, just kidding and adding coal to the fire.

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here’s a French one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFgGxENA2wo

I like this one more
http://www.youtube.com/user/vegetableorchestra

now if ya want to get into tire pumps the Trevor Wye’s yer man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r3BNoBD7J0
he also does carrots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyAI3EHULRs

Camping stool flute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiThsLmQfNA
Watering Can Clarinet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfZsZMazUP8

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Hilarious Denny, thanks! Anyway, how did you know that behind my question about the Siccama was a deep hidden desire to talk about vegetables? I feel free…

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it is hard to keep the key work attached to a carrot

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Is it true that a carrot flute has a particularly strong root note?

But please, a simple yes/no answer will do. Lettuce not rabbit on about it.

Perhaps a good alternative to a Siccama flute is a Jícama flute.

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I did find a cabbage

I couldn’t find the guys with the pastry tooters…

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Carrot flutes are grate. But, whilst it is true that there is a strong root note, the top can get a bit limp and fuzzy. Still, not worth getting in a stew about it. You can’t have your carrot cake and eat it. And, if you could, that would be a proper turnip for the books.

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Conclusion:
A carrot would make a fine flute,
As would all healthy veggies, to boot:
So, get up and get out
And buy me a sprout,
And give those potatos a hoot!

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I think what is normally understood these days (and maybe always since its introduction) to be THE Siccama flute is his initial, basic design…

Hmm…Run a poll please.

  • a normal 8-key Simple System in most respects, save that it has the better (acoustically) placed 3rd-finger tone-holes with open-standing extension keys to permit their operation by a normal hand. No “typewriter” keys (by which I take it you mean longitudinally mounted rod-axle mechanisms).

My quasi-probably-non-sanctioned-Sic has those rod thingies, longitudinal and radial/tangential (3rd finger).

Properly set up, the springs on the extension keys are supposed to be very light - there really shouldn’t be any significant stress or effort (or loss of speed) in using them for taps and rolls once accustomed to them

Play one for a few hours. You’ll find taps will take a bit more effort. If the springs are too light, the keys are more prone to sticking.

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And turnips will make a fine noise
As will beets and firm dark green savoys
And I’m told you can glean
From a ripe runner bean
Tone refined and with elegant poise

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Where’s my tuber?

(This thread seemed nearly as short of brass as I am…)

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Does a tuber play notes that are juicy,
And melodies, fancy and choosey?
Well rudall me this
And rudall me that,
Is a tuber no more than a Boosey?

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Ramify, ramify, tuber melodic,
Fain would I fathom thy rhythm spasmodic…

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Basely poised in the sub-terra-nean
Waiting their chance at the Euterpean

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bit late to the party…here’s a radish, 'ava go :wink:

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Actually, I don’t think you’ll find any more seats at the party for there isn’t mushroom left…

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maybe not at his party…

I’m in western Washington
we’ve shrooms

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Ratiocinate, legumes Callioponic!
Are you yet flutes, or e’en beans Terpsichoric?