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A (keyless) wooden flute. The Irish flute is a simple system, transverse flute which plays a diatonic (Major) scale as the tone holes are successively covered and uncovered. . Most flutes from the Classical era, and some of modern manufacture, include various metal keys or additional tone holes (such as a seventh, "pinky-hole", to access one lower note, typically the seventh degree of the ...
The first key added to the flute, the short F key, [9] crossed the flute's body, replacing a fingering with an open hole above a closed one, and is presumably the origin of the name for such "cross" fingerings. Fork fingering is any fingering where a central hole is uncovered while the holes to each side are kept covered.
Simple system flute most commonly refers to the type of flute manufactured and favored by classical European musicians during the Classical era.This type of flute is the direct precursor of, and was made obsolete within the art music world by, the introduction of the Boehm system flute.
Pictures added, sound samples to follow, one day, eventually, probably. --Camembert. There is an very extensive discussion of "grace notes" or "appogiaturas" in the book On Playing the Flute by Joachim Quantz, which was written in the 1700's (I believe the chapter is called "appogiaturas"). He also addresses trills or shakes.
Boehm's work was inspired by an 1831 concert in London, given by soloist Charles Nicholson, who, with his father in the 1820s, had introduced a flute constructed with larger tone holes than were used in previous designs. This large-holed instrument could produce greater volume of sound than other flutes, and Boehm set out to produce his own ...
Bergin moved to An Spidéal, County Galway, in the early 1970s and played with many of the up-and-coming stars of the Irish music scene, notably De Danann and Ceoltóri Laighin. [1] She is currently a member of the group Dordán, who perform Irish traditional music and Baroque music with pieces by George Frideric Handel , Henry Purcell and a ...
After meeting at a folk festival in Falkirk, Scotland, the group The Boys of the Lough was formed and their first recording was released in 1973.Originally consisting of McConnell on flute, Aly Bain (fiddle), [3] Dick Gaughan (vocals and guitar) and Robin Morton (bodhran and vocals). [4]