One of the big problems when you are going to buy a flute is the long time waiting for it. Some times you have to wait several years.
I want to comment you that there is a Wooden flute maker (and Uillean Pipe maker)in Madrid (Spain) that makes great flutes of high quality that reasonable quickly. Paddy Moloney has a chanter made by him. His name is Carlos Aragon and works in the Hevia Factory. You can visit the Web page:
http://www.arhpa.com
The flutes are similar to Hamilton ones.
They work with high technology machinery that makes the work easier.
I think its a very interesting option to consider it.
I play Arhpa flutes, for more information you can e-mail me: smoro@epes.es
S. Moro.
Annoying Flash-website aside, the flutes look very nice.
Whoever designed that website should have their keyboard taken away and never be allowed near a computer again! What a wretchedly designed site!
-Mark
yes, it’s a crap site.
But the flutes are pretty good. I got to visit them during a vacation in Spain a couple years ago (back when the website was a lot simpler and the flutes much less expensive!)
With family in Spain, I get updates from these folks pretty regularly. They used to make a very nice block-mounted flute, but I don’t see that option anymore. I wonder why.
Hevia, by the way, is a young piper from Spain who, I think, is also using an electronic set these days. Not sure if Budino is doing it, too?
Hi David:
Carlos Aragon is making block mounted flutes but there are no photos of them in the web.
When he associated with Hevia he started making Asturian and Galician Bagpipes, then Uillean pipes and finally flutes, the last product they make are the keyed flutes.
You are right with Hevia, but Budiño is playing acustic bagpipes, although the sound of the band is a bit “electronic”.
If you come to Spain to visit your family I hope see you in some sesions, there is an increasing interest in Spain about celtic and irish music, and there are some very good flute players.
Did you visited Carlos when they had the instruments factory in Cordoba? I used to go there.
S. Moro.
On 2002-12-11 03:35, smoro wrote:
…there is an increasing interest in Spain about celtic and irish music, and there are some very good flute players.
Could you name some flute players and point to any discography? Contact info (email, phone, etc.) appreciated.
Kevin Krell
In Hevia’s second CD, titled “Al otro lado”, he playes and keyed flute in C. I have a photo of this flute, if you are interested in it I can send you by e-mail. The Hevia’s Web is http://www.hevia.es
Paddy Moloney playes with a Uillean pipe chanter, I think Paddy recorded the last Chieftains CD with this chanter.He recived the chanter in July 2001.You can see the photo in the arhpa web.
Hevia playes also a Asturian Bagpipe Chanter by Carlos Aragon, with a very interesting improvement: it is tunable.
Josh Groban (the singer) was very interested in the Arhpa works, so he buyed a bagpipe.He loves traditional music. http://www.joshgroban.com
Other not famous players are using Arpha flutes and other instruments. If you are interested in contacting with them I can send you a e-mail with more information.
Bye.
S. Moro.
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yes, but I preferred the chanters made by KROF, who makes them for Carlos Nunez, I believe. The boys of Luar na Lubre put me onto Krof and I got to visit him at his home in A Estrella. I own one of his requinta flutes (in F, of course, or FA as the Spanish will say), very nice.
There are indeed several good flute players in Spain, but none yet of the caliber of those in Ireland, but I think that will change as the two styles develop and meld.
My own recording project will be a combo of Gallego and Irish celtic music on flutes, requinta, xistu and whistles. The idea is to market it in both countries.
Not too many of us who can claim ancestery in Ireland (my paternal grandparents) and Galicia (my mother), so I’m hoping to be the first to “cross” the barrier, so to say.
Hi David:
I agree with you when you say we haven’t still flute players wiht the caliber of the irish.However there is a interesting matter that probably you Know: I suposse the you have listen the galician fluters. In Galicia the traditional low ornamented style is very deep in the players mind, there is high resistence to move to a more ornamented and spectacular style (like irish).Carlos Nuñez is one of the few galician musicians to do this. However, in the rest of Spain, the style moves to a more standar way to play nowdays thanks to the CD’s and other cultural reasons. The best flute players I’ve seen in Spain are all out of Galicia, and there is at least a couple of them with an “Irish level”. The opposite happens with pipes, the king of the instruments in Galicia, where you can see hundred of pipers with incredible playing in the last few years, thanks to the evolution in the style.
I want also congratulate you because of your R&R web, wich is very very interesting for me.I love that flutes.
I should like to listen your project mixing irish and galician music.Tell us about this interesting thing when finished.
S. Moro.
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