Top players....which flutes?

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Klaus Steinort plays Aebis.

[ryanflute]

Ciaran Sommers has a keyed Wilkes in C.

Ciaran Somers now plays a poljez 8 keyed d flute

[Cathy_Wilde]

@smoro

@Unseen122

Liam Kelly plays a Wilde Ruddall in D aswell as the afore-mentioned Eb Wilkes.

Not exactly, Liam´s flute by Wilkes is in D. The last Dervish CD is recorded in D instead Eb (all their previous recordings were in Eb). The moved 1/2 tone flatter recently.
Regards.

Wilkes. Aha! Thanks for straightening me out on that.
I want to know what he did with his Eb Murray; I love the sound he got out of that flute.

I noticed the shift down too – MT, I have no idea why but they were playing with a piper for a while while the box player was off having a baby, so I thought maybe that was the reason. But that was just idle conjecture on my part.

[jemtheflute]

@kkrell

Calum sold his Rudall awhile ago. He is playing an 8-key Rudall copy by Norman Holmes and Bill McNaughton, modeled after Tom McElvogue’s Rudall. The H-M is the flute Calum played as runner-up to BBC Scotland’s 2007 Young Musician of the Year, and what he plays on his recent CD. Tom recently picked up his own H-M flute.

http://www.holmesmcnaughton.com/index.html

http://www.holmesmcnaughton.com/flutes.html

As I understand it (and Norman can correct me if he sees this), their waiting list is now closed.

Kevin Krell

Calum has recently acquired the Bohm tubed 8-key Rudall Carte & Co, that I overhauled a while back, has had a new unlined head made for it by Robert Bigio and is, I understand, delighted with it and using it in gigs. There is a YouTube clip (v poor quality phonecam at a gig job) of him using it prior to getting the Bigio head.

I haven’t seen/heard him/the flute since he got the new head - hope to do so in October when his band Mabon have a gig local to me… (there are some pics of thie flute with its own head before Calum bought it on my Facebook page.) So far as I know he still has his HMcN, though (very impressive, BTW - had a short go on it back in June…). And of course, he was trying to sell an Ormiston low Bb here on C&F a while back.

[jcannon]

A few weeks ago near me, the Philadelphia Ceili Group held their 35th Annual Irish Music and Dance Festival. Bua was a featured band, and Josh Dukes was sitting in on bodhran.

I asked band guitarist and sometimes fluter Brian Miller what makes folks were using afterward in the session. He said:

Here are the flute makes:

Sean: Mike Grinter fully keyed
Brendan: Patrick Olwell keyless
Josh: boxwood Olwell and blackwood (or cocus) flute by Beckett circa 1850
Brian: Pol Jezequel (maker in Brittany, France) 5-key

Nice music there for several nights

[dpmccabe]

I noticed the shift down too – MT, I have no idea why but they were playing with a piper for a while while the box player was off having a baby, so I thought maybe that was the reason. But that was just idle conjecture on my part.

That’s the reason. They tuned down to D for their U.S. tour with Ivan Goff and decided to stay that way.