http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Nz0UGuQyc
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTIvjxEkmnY
Regards,
Harry.
Their are bands in Scotland and Northern Ireland use Sub-Contra, Contra-Bass and contra Alto flutes
http://www.youtube.com/user/CarlukePrimrose#p/a/u/0/lJvwJ6njBOQ just to the left hand side not very clear
hear is a better view of a different band
Harry, I love your flute playing.
Did you post these for the comedy of it or are you serious about it?
This stuff, in my view, ain’t fluting–it’s more like percussive tube slapping. My classical flute ensemble partner has a contrabass flute–at least with that it’s nearly possible to get a true flute sound, not just beat box tubular percussion. Subcontrabass–forget it.
Akiba, your first statement indicates questionable musical taste for a start, as to the rest… I dunno, I just dunno…
David, I doubt it possible that anyone will die on their knees playing one of those machines. I wouldn’t like to get stopped with one in South Armagh: It looks like something for unceremoniously bringing down Chinooks.
Regards,
Harry.
Are there many Chinooks flying over South Armagh? Just wondering …
Böhm Böhm! 
Standing in for the angels who resigned? (Scared off by the pipes… narrow bores? 
)
It’s past your normal bed-time, Hall!
I know … I know … I’m going … 
I’d hate to re pad one of those. You’d need a blow torch, a “C” clamp and a pint of lacquer.
Cheers,
Kirk
This means that most of us (if not all) have questionable musical taste 
I for one have worn down the proverbial grooves of “The Pleasures of Hope” with hopes of honing my questionable taste.
Kirk
From the first time I heard your playing, Harry, and thought it the greatest Irish flute playing I’d ever heard, not a day has gone by but that I’ve questioned my musical taste.
heh heh
This from a man who likes e.g. Webern and Elvis Costello… (Not saying owt wrong with; just saying. )
There’s sure no accounting for taste, eclectic or not.
I often find myself wishing that people would share my sense of humor, but whenever it comes true… Awful 
As for the topic, if you’d leave out the pictures you could be convinced it actually was an upright bass, except for the most violent funky slappy (and sometimes quite distorted) parts. So it’s not actually bad as a bass instrument at all. It’s just not much of a flute…
And while most bass flutes indeed just use Böhm, I did see some remarkably ergonomic unkeyed bass recorders. The holes were all drilled with an incredible slant, but nevertheless: it could be possible!
BBQ sauce 
I don’t think I’ve heard that one?
Or d’ya mean you dub your flutes with it?
naw…
ya put enough BBQ ( or “secret”) sauce on ‘em an’ no one will be able to tell that they got bad taste.
yer not from Texas are ya?
Man, the sound of those gigantoflutes…“borborygmus” is the first word that came to mind.
Oh, I get it: Texan=(by default) “bad taste”, ergo, they have to be smothered in sauce? So if I see any saucy Texans, I know they’ll taste bad and that you’ve given 'em a good slather… Right, Denny?
Robert Dick isn’t Texan, is he? I have to say, the handful of clips of him I’ve seen on YT have, considering his reputation, left me very unimpressed!
Umm… BBQ sauce is for burned meat. If it needs BBQ sauce, then it’s probably not worth eating anyway. Or that’s the way we’ve always done it in the parts of Texas I’ve lived in.