Flutes & Whistles
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Michael
Grinters website
- Flute & whistle maker extraordinare. Many well
respected players such as Jean Michel Veillion,
Kevin Crawford, Brian Finnegan and John Kelly use
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Michael Burke's website - Whistle maker. Making Lovely whistles in a variety of sizes and materials
The Wooden flute guide by Brad Hurley - An incrediable mine of information about wooden flutes
The Flow - This is a very good
site that details different (Irish) regional styles of playing
Rob Greenways Page - This site has some lovely pointers for players of all levels, check out the different types
of ornamentation
Kiwicelt - Shardul is the New Zealand distributor of Martin Doyle flutes and a range of flutes made form New Zealand native timbers is available.
Hammy Hamilton's homepage - Another Maker, also makes cheap practice flutes
Desi Seery's Homepage - Quality Synthetic flutes. In my opinion the only lower priced flute worth getting. Great for playing outdoors when the wooden one throws a fit about the conditions!
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Bands and Musicians
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Mike Considine
- A brillant Bouzouki player living In Christchurch
- Check out our album Mountain Air.
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Bob
McNeill - Bouzouki
player, former Marannan colleage and a great musician.
His album, Covenant, won best folk album
of 2002 in the New Zealand Music awards.
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Grada
- A great young Irish band based in Dublin with
some hot talent from New Zealand involved.
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Anton Davila
- A great Gailthian Piper whom I met on the Isle of Mann at a festival. Watch out though the site is in spanish.
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Bob Bickerton - Nelson based performer, teacher, and accordion surgeon (why Bob, why?). Does many programmes for primary school kids.
Danu - A Fantastic band from Wexford and Waterford. Tom Doorley is a masterful flute player and plays a Desi Seery synthetic flute. In the words of Desi Seery he's "Deadly!".
Dervish - The best Irish band of the last ten years. In my opinion much better than Altan.
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Trad music
Trad Music.com - a comprehensive list of musicians and Cd's of tradtional music.
Ceolas is the one stop website for anything to do with Irish music
The Sessioner website this is a great site;
tunes/tin whistle guide/directory of members, worth checking out
New Zealand Music. A list of Celtic music recorded in New Zealand also listings of New Zealand Folk Clubs etc.
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Tunes
Ceili House Band Tunes - GIF's and ABC's
Henrick Norbeck's ABC Collection - Hundreds of ABC tunes and a few GIF's as well
Instrument Repair
Ian lyons - Building musical partnerships: Top class strings expert, specialising in Cello's, Violins, Fiddles, Viola's and bows.
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