Some good news: Martin Doyle, who, for those that don’t already know, is a maker of fine wooden flutes who hails from County Clare in Ireland, has just launched his own website: Martin Doyle Flutes. This from Martin’s Homepage:
Since 1983, Martin Doyle has been producing high quality simple system wooden flutes that are used predominantly [...]
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Like most people, I get a lot of spam and rubbish among my email – like, probably 95%! One becomes used to it even though it’s not nice to receive such stuff. And, like most people, I also get email that is ho-hum – stuff you just have to deal with but is a bit [...]
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Last week, we let it be known that a second-hand Martin Doyle flute had come up for auction on eBay. It sold for a good price, but the same flute has come up for auction again as it seems that the original sale fell through. Perhaps a bitter experience has prompted the seller to add [...]
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We are very fortunate to have a new interview on KiwiCelt Wooden Flutes with an inspiring individual who is one of the leading figures of the Irish traditional music scene here in New Zealand.
Based in the South Island town of Nelson, Bob Bickerton has been around the folk, Celtic and Irish traditional music scene since [...]
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I received an email from flute and tin whistle teacher Margie Mulvihill of Pearl River in upstate New York this morning. Margie and her fiddler husband John Reynolds are very involved in teaching and performing Irish traditional music and are raising funds to take a group of local children to Ireland for the Fleadh Cheoil [...]
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Flute Focus is an international flute magazine produced quarterly in New Zealand.
The main feature of this edition, in Alexa Still’s words, “covers about everything you ever wanted to know about flute choirs but were to afraid to ask!” You will also find an interesting article on understanding the intricate carvings on New Zealand Maori flutes; [...]
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Catherine McEvoy is one of the leading flute players in Irish music today and a very popular teacher of that instrument. In more recent years, Catherine has been one of the senior flute tutors at the Willie Clancy Summer School in Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare. Like Kevin Crawford and Bob Bickerton, Catherine is originally from [...]
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... a web site dedicated to the simple system wooden flutes (aka 'Irish' flutes) that are so much a part of Irish traditional and Celtic music, and to the excellent wooden flutes produced by the Irish flute maker 
