Scottish, Irish, and just generally Gaelic Flute Music?

[OC Richard]

You're welcome!

There's an odd thing about the traditional Irish flute world.

When I first got into it (in the 1970s) I kept hearing flute players whose goal seemed to be to blend in with fiddle playing as much as possible, and flute players who seemed to be trying to make their playing sound like uilleann pipe playing.

The eye-opener was when I heard the 1920s recordings of Tom Morrison, whose goal seemed to be to make his flute sound like a flute, to capitalise on the things that flutes do, the things that set the flute apart from fiddles and uilleann pipes.

Here he is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-blZR7M-DI

I've never heard any other fluter (never flautist!) do all the things he does.

In particular I love the thing where he'll play a string of notes staccato, out of the blue.

There were older fluters who had that Morrison bounce to their playing, one such was Michael Tubridy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfaV...uJmXzzTZX7Mkru