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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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
A Flute method is a type of specific textbook-style pedagogy for learning to play the flute. It often contains fingering charts, scales , exercises, and occasionally etudes . These exercises are often presented in different keys in ascending order to aid in difficulty, known as methodical progression, or to focus on isolated aspects like ...
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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 ...