more people need to submit things to tinwhistletunes.com!
1-2-3 go! i want to hear you!
(you might be saying, why don’t YOU submit something yourself, you little whiner! and to that i say: i would, but i’m currently fluteless and waiting on my casey burns flute to come in. 
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how did you come to be fluteless? how sad?
heh. well i’m originally a boehm flute player, (well.. originally a pianist… whatever) but i’ve always loved irish music so i joined the irish ensemble at my school. (florida state university) and i played my silver flute for a while, until i got a whistle. but then my teacher decided to buy a wooden flute for me to play, and she got an old rosewood copeland which i played for the rest of the semester!
…now that the semester is over, though, i live 300 miles away from my school (and the flute) and thus i am fluteless!
its always a shame when a good instrument thats not yours gets taken away. i had a teacher that let me borrow a roy seaman piccolo for a whole semester… after learning how to play the piccolo on such an amazing instrument, going to a cheap, silver-plated one was like putting training weels back on a bike.
sad to say, it will be a long time until i ever see such a nice piccolo again. i have 2 concertinas and a wooden flute on order, and i will probably not be able to afford anything else in a looong time.
how long until your flute comes? if my concertina doesnt come soon i think i’ll just about explode.
ooh, dunno. maybe a month? i hope soon.
heh…
Is the Irish ensemble kind of like school jazz bands? If so, my response echoes Congrats’.
What style of flute are you getting from Casey Burns? How did you like the Copeland?
Cheers,
Aaron
Now Aaron…
I played in the high school dance band…before there were high school jazz bands. 
i fell so much better. i thought maybe your house burned to the ground, you were robbed, you had to sell it to purchase medications. sometimes i worry too much. let us known when you and a flute are back in one piece again.
like high school jazz bands? not that bad. 
this is a real ensemble in the college of music. it’s not a club or anything. so it doesn’t suck that much.
but i will say that even though the ensemble is entirely made up of music majors, it sounds pretty dern unirish.
so it’s unsatisfying. but certainly not “bad.” (…except for the fact that we had like 4 pennywhistles. 
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anyway, i’m getting the small-handed model (as recommended by casey) in lovely mopane.
the copeland, like i said, is an old model. i didn’t like the embouchure hole at all, it was a beastly gargantuan massive oval.
the spread was a little too much for me, especially with the big holes. i have relatively small hands anyway, and i had carpal tunnel really bad until i had the surgery in december. so now i’m just ligamentless and weak, i guess. but it still hurts to stretch like that.
so anyway. maybe i’m not the best judge of this flute… 
That’s refreshing to see some perspective, Jaime. As long as you’re having fun and learning something.
Enjoy your flute when it comes. I’ve found Casey Burns’ flutes to have a nice, easy tone but are also capable of being pushed in all sorts of directions.
Cheers,
Aaron
You want ME to submit stuff to Clips n’ Snips? Man, you must be hurting for listening material…
Dave
