In a weeek or so, it´s gonna be sooooo fun.
Anyone on the list who have played it?
This will be my first experience with a “irish flute” as I have only played various other wind instruments earlier like;
Panpipes
Whistles
Concert Bohem flute (made sound from it 
)
Quena
And a DIY alu-flute (horrible, but a start at least)
Not that it´ll be much worth but I will record the sounds I produce on this instrument and post a clip later on.
Shoo-hooo grreat times!
/Peter
Yep. Jeroen (Pixyy) received it for a week last fall. We met up at my place one day, and had a Flute Get-together. Flutes present included the McGee RAF, Copley, Seery, some Olwell bamboos, and a couple of others. Much fun was had.
My impression of the RAF was that it was very easy to play (compared with most other flutes I’ve tried), especially when it came to getting a loud, hard, reedy tone out of it. We concluded that it didn’t have quite the same flexibility of tone as the Copley (which easily ranges from hard & reedy to soft & sweet), but the RAF was certainly the perfect “session weapon”.
Cheers,
Jens
I was fortunate and had it twice. The second time was to take it over to a flute workshop in Begium I went on. I must admit I did not get on with it the first time I had it and found it hard to play but on the workshop weekend I played it a lot and really liked it. Before that time my embouchure was not that good and could not fill the flute as I was playing alot on a French flute and the embouchure I had was totally different.
Enjoy playing it, it is a really nice one.
Colin
Flute is here now and woooow… this is soo fun.
As I mentioned earlier I have never played a flute earlier, but I can play tunes on this one almost as good (or bad as on my low whistle.
The tone I get out from it can be altered slightly between “hard and reedy” and “soft and sweet”, don´t know if this is the right terms but you get my drift I´m sure.
The volume is slightly higher than expected but the tone is nice so it´s never bothersome. I also expected the tone to be slightly more “romantic” “sweet” or something like that, maybe reminding of a baroque flute or so, but the tone is… Irish somehow .
I may not be the person to judge this instruments yet but I shure would like to keep it. When I order my own flute though (now I´m sure I want one) I don´t know if I maybe will go with boxwood for a sligthly sweeter sound, or maybe chose another design than this one. Guess I´ll end up in the same situation as with my whistles, a whole bunch of them… noooooo it´s to expensive
I´ll try to post a clip of it in a week or so.
/Peter