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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 ...
Vincent Broderick (1920 – 7 August 2008) was an Irish flute and tin whistle player and teacher and composer of Irish music. He was born in the townland of Carramore, Bullaun, near Loughrea in County Galway. He left Galway for Dublin in the early 1950s, where he became an enthusiastic member of the Pipers Club.
[citation needed] French simple system flutes (or "five-key flutes") from this era typically had five keys that enabled the flute to play in any key. English and German models were typically designed with eight keys: the five of the five-key flute, plus an alternate F key running along the instrument, and two keys on the foot joint to extend ...
McGeown is the recipient of the 'First Prize' for ‘Best Performer’ at the International Sir James Galway Flute Festival and the TCM Silver Medal Award. [ 17 ] McGeown received an invitation by Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh to attend the Royal Reception at Buckingham Palace , London , United Kingdom in May 2011 ...
Patrick "Packie" Duignan (5 May 1922 – 1992) was an Irish flute player, very well known by music lovers of his time. He was born in Aughabehy, in the Arigna Mountains of County Roscommon, Ireland. [1] [2] [3]
McLearnon began his involvement with the flute industry in 1999 while still a student at the Guildhall, when he began working part-time at the specialist flute shop Top Wind, in London. In October 2005, following the end of the Southbank Sinfonia concert season, he took up a position as Flute Specialist & Pearl Flutes Artist for the Japanese ...
Matt Molloy (born 12 January 1947) is an Irish musician, from a region known for producing talented flautists. As a child, he began playing the flute and won the All-Ireland Flute Championship at nineteen. Considered one of the most brilliant Irish musicians, his style that adapts piping techniques to the flute has influenced many contemporary ...
He began playing tin whistle at age 12 and went on to flute in his early teens inspired by local musicians and the early recordings of Irish music made in America. He received further inspiration from local flute players such as Noel Lenaghan, Michael Clarkson, Sam Murray and Brendan O'Hare.