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2. Irish flute - Wikipedia

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   The Irish flute is a conical-bore, simple-system, wooden flute of the type favoured by classical flautists of the early 19th century, or to a flute of modern manufacture derived from this design (often with modifications to optimize its use in Irish Traditional Music, Scottish Traditional Music or Music of Brittany and other Celtic nations ...

3. Fife (instrument) - Wikipedia

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   The early 1990s saw the emergence of the Healy Flute Company as a major player in the manufacture of fifes. Founder Skip Healy is a champion fife player and well known Irish flute player from Rhode Island. His fifes are two-piece, six or ten hole instruments with a Boehm style bore (cylindrical foot and truncated parabolic head) and large tone ...

4. List of woodwind instruments - Wikipedia

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   Western concert flute; Fife; Alto flute; bass flute; Contra-alto flute; Contrabass flute; Subcontrabass flute; Double contrabass flute; Hyperbass flute; Bansuri (India) Irish flute; Koudi (China) Dizi (China) Native American flute; Daegeum (Korea) Nohkan (Japan) Ryūteki (Japan) Shinobue (Japan) Švilpa (Lithuania) Venu (India) Kaval (Anatolian ...

5. List of flute makers - Wikipedia

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   Maker of the FANTASIA flute and custom wooden headjoints: No: Yes: Yes Oleg: USA: Oleg Garbuzov died in 2022. His company no longer offers flutes, headjoints or flute-related products. No: No: No Olwell Flutes: USA: Father and son, Patrick and Aaron Olwell, makers of mainly Irish flutes: Yes: Yes: Yes Opperman: USA

6. Alto flute - Wikipedia

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   While there is no exact date that the alto flute was created, large flutes have existed for several hundred years. [1] Some problems with early alto flute design included the long length of the tube, troublesome cross fingerings, inconsistent intonation, finger holes that were too wide across, and how far one’s arm had to be stretched in order to reach the finger holes, particularly in the ...

7. 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.

8. Mike Rafferty (flautist) - Wikipedia

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   Mike Rafferty (1926–2011) was an Irish traditional flute player. Rafferty was born on 26 September 1926 and grew up on a farm in Ballinakill, County Galway, Ireland. He learned music mainly from his father, Tom "Barrel" Rafferty who played the flute and uilleann pipes. Rafferty emigrated to the United States in 1949 and settled in northern ...

9. James Galway - Wikipedia

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   Sir James Galway OBE (born 8 December 1939) is an Irish [1] [2] virtuoso flute player from Belfast, nicknamed "The Man with the Golden Flute". [3] After several years working as an orchestral musician, he established an international career as a solo flute player.