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  2. Irish flute - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Paddy Carty - Wikipedia

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    Paddy Carty (1929–1980) [1] was a three-time all-Ireland champion Irish flute player from Loughrea, County Galway.He was well known for his flowing rhythm and his virtuoso skill on his Radcliff System flute, on which he could play freely in key signatures usually considered to be difficult on the Irish flute.

  4. Brian Dunning (flautist) - Wikipedia

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    Brian Dunning (21 December 1951 – 10 February 2022) was an Irish flautist and composer, [1] [2] largely known for being a member of the Celtic band Nightnoise. [3] He had both Celtic and jazz influences early on. He studied jazz and classical music, and was a student of James Galway. [4]

  5. Simple system flute - Wikipedia

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    Simple system flute may also refer to any flute with tone holes played by the direct application and removal of fingers, as opposed to keys, from pre-historical bone flutes to the modern Irish flute. The presence of keys (as found on the Classical flutes described above) does not preclude categorization as a "simple system" flute, as long as ...

  6. Irish traditional music - Wikipedia

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    Irish dance music is isometric and is built around patterns of bar-long melodic phrases akin to call and response.A common pattern is A Phrase, B Phrase, A Phrase, Partial Resolution, A Phrase, B Phrase, A Phrase, Final Resolution, though this is not universal; mazurkas, for example, tend to feature a C Phrase instead of a repeated A Phrase before the Partial and Final Resolutions, for example.

  7. Eimear McGeown - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Matt Molloy - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Cathal McConnell - Wikipedia

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    Cathal McConnell (born 1944) is an Irish musician and singer best known as the mainstay of traditional band The Boys of the Lough, of which he is a founder member.His main instruments are the Irish flute and the tin whistle.