Just wondering if anyone knows of someone in Seattle that I can take some lessons from. Thanks! John.
-Dusty Strings in Fremont used to keep a big book full of local instructors’ information pages on a dedicated bookstand-for a variety of instruments including wooden flute. I suspect they still have it and will bring it out by request, but I didn’t see it displayed on last visit-perhaps the result of bewitchment by a fine Casey Burns boxwood Eb flute and a nice CG Overton soprano D whistle.
Thanks Brian, I’ll give them a call, J.
Dusty Strings is a good place to start. I didn’t see any boxwood Burns flutes when I was there the other day. They had some mopane and blackwood Burns plus blackwood Copeland and Serov.
One of the kingpins of the Seattle ITM scene is Hanz Araki. He was open to giving instruction the couple times I talked to him. He’s very busy though and between my pipe band schedule we have never met for a lesson (living up here in B’ham is a bit of an impediment too). He plays a very modern Crawford-McGoldrick style in concert. I haven’t heard him in other settings yet.
Cheers,
Aaron
I had a whistle lesson from Hans once. He’s a very laid-back guy. Amazing musician too! J.