Sometime ago someone mentioned some traditional Irish musicians
who have, at times, played bansuri (north Indian simple system bamboo flute) for Irish music. I want to know more.
A well known Australian musician was once checking out my Irish flute and played it so well that I was goaded into getting off my ass with this particular flute and start playing seriously (for fun). He then pulled out a plastic Aulos (Baroque flute/traverso) and played Irish music with that very sweetly. Fascinating stuff. I want to know about any traverso players of Irish music. I mean concert and recorded.
I guess I should add Renaissance for completeness.
The “completeness” is not about musical genre but about simple system traditional flutes with more or less ROUND embouchures. This is my favourite embouchure engendered probably by my bansuri background and bolstered somewhat by my recent experience with Tipple flutes.
I play different kinds of music, so try to play one kind of music on each flute. I do plan on mixing once I become more proficient, but somehow can never picture myself playing ITM on a traverso.
The other day I picked up the Noy thinking it was the Olwell, and played a few Irish tunes on it (I tend to play English dance music on the Noy). After a few tunes I thought, the Olwell is feeling kind of light today, and noticed that it wasn’t the Olwell at all. So I tried the same tunes on the Olwell, and sure enough, it has a different voice, but the Noy is much better for ITM than I had thought. I just needed to think it was an Olwell.
