So THAT'S how they suck you in!!! WhOA!

Irish Flute
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My daughter’s violin teacher recently handed me a copy of the Kanon by Pachelbel. Being the trooper I am, I immediately ran to my library and started learning it on my trusty Jupiter flute. To my dismay I found that in measure 10 there’s a low B!!! Hey, I play a C foot student flute… what kind of sick joke is this!! :moreevil: But I suppose there’s an upside to this…now how am I going to convince Ellen that because of the requirements of classical music, I reeeealllly need a better flute with a B-foot, like an Abell, or a Powell or a Prima Sankyo? Time to serve breakfast in bed…

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What the heck, might as well call Chris Abell up and ask him about the beauty he has at the shop with the rose gold keywork (drool…).

Loren

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Well, i was going to mention this, but you have a better plan! :slight_smile:

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I have a setting of it for Highland pipes which is well within the range of a flute. It has harmonies and everything. For a sound sample check out the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band and click on track number 7.
Cheers,
Aaron

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Aaron that is so cool. You pipers will try anything. Looks like a must have CD to me. Long live SFU

Tom

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SFU is a pretty hot band, especially in last 5 years (2 World Championships and concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Sydney Opera House) and a really nice group of people to boot. I don’t know if any pipe bands have tried any Classical pieces other than SFU and Kanon. I heard SFU was kicking around the idea to do a version of Bolero. I know they reprised Kanon for their latest run of concerts.
There are stories of some pipe tunes being derived from Classical pieces (i.e. Going Home from Dvorak’s New World Symphony and Green Hills of Tyrol from the William Tell Overture). GHB has such an ill-tempered scale and limited range that most Classical stuff is just beyond the range.
I downloaded a copy of the Largo from Handel’s Xerxes that works on Irish flute and whistle. It’s in G.
Cheers,
Aaron

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SFU is a great Highland pipe band. I’d charge the gates of Hell with nothing more than an old bolt action .303 Enfield if they led the way.


As for WHOA, you guys don’t know what a true obsessive disorder is until you get into uilleann pipes and have someone tell you that you won’t be any good until you spend 7 years listening, 7 years practicing, and 7 years playing before you can call yerself a Piper with a capital P.[/i]