fluti31415’s twenty-three comments

I went to my first session with an oboe and nobody kicked me out. But I knew a lot of the tunes from contra dancing already. more…

I agree about staying with a good quality, but reasonably priced flute, and buying one domestically. If you are like most of the flute players I know, you will develop an idea of what the best flute is for you after you have been playing a while. more…

The lark in the strand more…

Not ITM, but close is the American Contra Dance band Wild Asparagus. David Cantieni is the wind player. He’s moved away from oboe in recent years, but some of their older recordings have plenty of oboe. more…

Sorry to add to this so late. Here’s some more general stuff about vamping. In show music, vamping is what the band does to fill time before a song in order to match the action or the dialog. more…

I moved to a very small town, and met some friends who had a band. They invited me to a practice session, “just for fun,” on my Boehm flute (that I only played just for fun, because I am really an oboist). The next day, they asked me to join their band. more…

“I won’t get much of a pension in 4 years time because throughout my life I only worked 15 years instead of 40 due to the music…………” more…

Not scary, and not sad, but I think it is actually good. I spent many years in a geographically isolated area, trying to learn from the notes, *and* from the one ITM CD that I had. more…

I would put together a set that starts with an “interesting” (whatever that means to you) tune, and also has a well-known tune, and has whatever else you want in it. more…

You’ve done a great service by posting this before you “made it your own.” This was the first tune I ever learned, when I bought my first folk flute. It was the second tune in a book I later lost. more…