Jack Campin wrote:
>
> I hear it played in D by fiddlers more often than by
fluteplayers;
> seems a lot of fiddlers are put off by the *idea* of four
sharps but
> don't actually check how hard the tune is to play.
>
Very true. Playing in E doesn't involve any new notes, it simply
involves
the same old ones in slightly different configurations.
>
<snip>
>
> Irish fluteplayers are remarkably unambitious about the key,
range and
> size/complexity of the music they play (cue plug for my Scots
flute
> music CD-ROM, which takes the flute to places beyond Captain
O'Neill's
> imaginings).
>
Will you have copies for sale at Fiddle 2003? Will your Aird
compilation
be ready by then?

Regards,

Ted

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