What kind of music do you like to play?
I’ve just joined & I’d be interested to hear about the kinds of music each of you play. 
I tend to play gentle/ballad type of music, a bit of folk, a bit of trad jazz, some rock, some blues.
I have a rather eclectic taste. 
I guess that, like me, most folks around here would prefer to play Irish music.
Mainly Irish. Bit of other trad/folk occasionally like Scottish or contra.
My group, Gallowglass, plays mostly trad Irish but also American period music (usually 18th century). I also play trumpet and silver flute in a Catholic choir.
Pat
Hi - Mainly Irish trad, a few English, Scots, Breton tunes and anything I hear that I like the sound of.
Me? No… some Irish and some other trad, but weighted more towards Scottish and Shetland. As well as all kinds of other stuff (talk about eclectic!), but not as some amorphous fusion hotchpotch!
I do a mish-mash. I play a lot of Carolan and Playford tunes, a little IrTrad, and a little baroque music. I like the really old Irish and British sources.
Are you thinking of any other sources, apart from Carolan and Playford? Just curious …
Mainly English, with some French, Scandinavian, and Western European (for example there’s lots of exciting music and great newly-composed tunes coming out of Belgium at the moment).
I know some fairly bog-standard Irish and Scottish chestnuts that crop up in mixed sessions, but that’s about it for those repertoires.
John and William Neal, I think mid-1700’s
Petrie, mid-late 1800’s
Joyce, my edition is dated 1909, I think it was earlier, maybe 1870’s
The Neal collection is the oldest Irish music collection. It’s whence some of the Carolan tunes in (I can’t remember his name)'s collection were sourced. (AFAIK, it’s not at all available. When I was looking 15 years ago or so, you couldn’t even get it second-hand. I found a facsimile edition at a university library and copied it.) The other two are also Irish, mixture of song airs and dance tunes. All very cool.
I have a few tunes from each on a Baltimore Consort album (which is how I knew to look for them), but haven’t seen them mentioned elsewhere. It’s kinda nice to do tunes as you imagine them rather than as you’ve heard them. We grownups tend to lose imagination, and I like to use mine.
Look what I’ve found :
https://www.itma.ie/shop/a-collection-of-the-most-celebrated-irish-tunes-proper-for-the-violin-german-flute-or-hautboy-john-william-neal-eds-facsimile-edition-by-nicholas-carolan
I might look at buying that, on your recommendation, chas.
http://port.itma.ie/browse?collectionId=neal
Available digitally here.
Thanks for that. Very useful.
I notice that there are several duplications in the online list, which presumably means that some of the 49 tunes are absent. Now I’m going to have to buy the book anyway, just to be sure!
Nice coincidence. I was looking for the Neal Collection the other day and couldn’t find it on itma site.
Today I remembered their new port site. Good stuff here.
Off work today. Going to work up the Fairy Queen for pipes.
Yes, but there are 57 entries in total over two pages, which suggests there are 8 duplicates in the list and no entries omitted. Let us know.
I looked for a second page! I know I did …
[mutter]
Thanks so much, Ben and Pat!
It had been some time (probably 10-15 years) since I last looked for it.
If you want to listen to some of the tunes, the Baltimore Consort Irish album is on YT:
I try Irish and Breton trad and O’Carolan playing the flute with my girlfriend, baroque at school (traverso), 90s punk rock, grunge and blues on guitar 
kr,
Peter
I play a good deal of ITM, partly because that’s the spine of the wooden flute repertoire and the best way to build chops. But I also play lots of American Fiddle Tunes (Old Time Music). The Irish flute works wonderfully with this, for pretty much the same reasons it suits ITM. I sometimes am looked at a little strangely in OT sessions at first, though much less after I play, and generally such sessions are welcoming. In fact a lot of the tunes we play were played on flute back in the 19th century, at least so I figure, cause lots of flutes were sold in the USA, they are mobile, they sound fine, and I expect lots of people had the chops from playing fife in the Civil War. People basically picked up the instruments they had and played them. Also I play blues–since I’m busking with a blues band–and the Irish Flute is, IMO, a good blues instrument cause it’s gutsy and it wails. Also I play a fair amount of classical tunes, mostly Bach, ballads, show tunes, Beatles tunes, and anything else that strikes my fancy.
… and anything else that strikes my fancy.
A man after my own heart.