Another southerner (US) speaks up

[fluter]

Don't be shocked if I try to get you to come down for one of our kilt nights and ask you to bring an instrument to share some of your folk music skills.

Thanks!

My folkie skills are spotty, but I'm willing & have some flexibility. I've dabbled at playing fiddle tunes on the flute. Usually, the modern flute. I gather that most of the Scots and Irish flutists use a "later" model than the one-keyed baroque flutes I have.

I have the classical mindset to some extent (an almost literalist view of notes on the page). I've noticed that folks who play without written music have incredible memory skills, and I tend to frustrate them by not being able to learn a song as readily.

A rock-n-roll friend once referred to us classical geeks as "typists."