Nothing Like The Sun....With Pics!

Irish Flute
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I’m in love.

She’s slim, with a football-shaped head, slightly oily all over, but only one foot. Oh, what a long F - don’t anybody tell my wife.

And she’s an older lady…

The B&S Dulcet Improved, fresh from Jon C’s shop, has now had a five hour workout, and I’m typing with one hand (make of that what you will… …hand cramps from poor technique).

The restoration is perfect for me - updated with modern pads, vent heights set nicely, everything cleaned up but not scoured of character. After so many years of Yamaha, Buffet and Boossey keywork, these delicate little mechanical bits are a joy. I even like the clackidy-clack of the pewter-plug foot: reminds me a bit of pre-war British cars I worked on in a museum. Tone? Sounds exactly like Chris Norman’s Rudall. No, really. Come over and check, any time… Pender Island? Go to Seattle, hang a left, then a right, dry off, take a left where the old gas station used to be… :stuck_out_tongue:

Stay tuned for my posts (no sooner than next week) about how unlivable the intonation/ergonomics/blahhblahh is. For now, I’m smitten.

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Ok, I’m going to steal something from Woodnet.

This is not a gloat. In order to be a gloat, there have to be pictures. No pictures, no gloat. No gloat, it didn’t happen.

(oh, and just in case it actually did happen, and you just forgot the pictures, congrats!) :smiley:

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mea culpa - Edited to add pics, even if they’re not as good as the ones on Terry’s Research Collection page.


That’s the Dulcet on the bottom. Above it are the Nicht Meyer and a Ronnberg Footless.

Started playing again at 7:00, out towards the lake, O’Carolans and Mozart. Gawd, I love keys. We need a “happier than a pig in plop” smiley.

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I don’t know why, but this sounds like Stewie Griffon

after a bad accident at a salad dressing factory.

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I now stand corrected. Beautiful flute. Congratulations, you have an official gloat. :smiley:

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Thanks, Jon. I’d lost that pic.

There seems to be several opinions on how to learn keys, but here’s what I’m doing, just in case anyone’s in the same boat:

I’ve put together a little folder of tunes just for this flute. Fiddle tunes in non-keyless keys (Dusty Windowsill, Tamlyn’s Reel, some Cape Breton stuff), Bach Flute Sonata in Eb (which I know very well in another key), and some pretty O’Carolan tunes. I’m also doing chromatic scales and fragments (five notes, up and down ad nauseum). Arpeggios are next - 12 major, 12 minor, 3 diminished, 4 augmented. Everything is at tempo di learno for now, except the O’Carolans.

Still looking for that happy pig smiley!

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:@) :@) :@)

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Only when I’m playing too fast and a bunch of narsty Fnats come up… :slight_smile:

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Thats the trouble with them two keys, by the time I’ve decided which one to use the moment has passed…

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Hey, that’s easy; on sax, there’s 8 ways to play the middle Bb, so 2 choices is nice…

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Oh, how very true. :laughing:

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Aw…you can get by with only 3 or 4 of them…

maybe five. :wink:

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Seriously, one needs all eight for Steady Study on the Boogie and other ‘new music’ from Japan and Bordeaux. That stuff makes Boulez look like Telemann.

Hey!!! Wasn’t I supposed to be gloating about a flute? :confused:

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Hmmm…something good about having given up sax… :laughing:

easily distracted, eh? :wink: