Michael Eskin, a session musician in southern California, is playing my 3-piece, 6-hole low C flute in white PVC with the Tipple-Fajardo wedge in place in the flute. The slow air is entitled "Taimse im Chodladh".
http://dougsflutes.googlepages.com/tipple_C_taimse.mp3
Here Michael is playing a reel, "Maids of Mt. Cisco", using my 3-piece low D white flute with the wedge.
http://dougsflutes.googlepages.com/maids_of_mt_cisco.mp3
Michael also recorded "Garrett Barry's Jig", playing my high C flute/fife in white PVC. He commented, "I like this instrument quite a bit, very easy to play once you get used to the tighter embrochure required, well in tune, a lot of fun. Anyone who has experience playing a silver piccolo will have no problem adapting to this one."
http://dougsflutes.googlepages.com/high_C_flute.mp3
Michael has also recorded two clips comparing my standard headjoint and my headjoint with a lip plate. Those files are located on the page "Optional Lip Plate".
Gian Marco "Pantera" Pietrasanta is the flute player in the celtic group Myrddin in Genova, Italy. The website with photos of the group are at www.myrddin.it In an email on 3-26-05 he wrote: "Thanks again for the flute. I love it."Marco is playing his own composition "The Cat in the Fiddle Case" using my 3-piece, 6-hole low D flute (gray pvc) with the Tipple-Fajardo wedge.
http://dougsflutes.googlepages.com/the_cat_in_the_fiddle_case2.mp3
On 12-2-06 Gian gave me permission to host another one of his compositions, "Arianna's Tower", which is very beautiful. Gian is playing my 3-piece, 6-hole low D flute in the gray pvc + wedge.
http://dougsflutes.googlepages.com/Arianna_s_Tower.mp3
The latest of Gian's tunes is an original tune entitled, "The Path You Can't See". Gian is playing my little G flute.
http://dougsflutes.googlepages.com/the_path_you_cant_see-Apr30200707.26.mp3
Here is an example of my 8-hole low D flute being played as a lead and harmony flute in a slow Keltic song.
The flutes are played by Larry Meyerhoff of New York. He is also playing the bouzouki. The guitar and fiddle accompaniment are by the late Mindy Joslyn, who for most of her career was a sideman and arranger for Carly Simon.
http://dougsflutes.googlepages.com/song.mp3
Steffen Gabriel from Munster, Germany has recorded an improvised slow air on my 3-piece, 6-hole low B flute in the gray pvc. Steffen gave me permission to host it here.
http://dougsflutes.googlepages.com/slowair.mp3
Lee Stanford from New Jersey, USA has posted a youtube video of him playing my 3-piece low D flute with the inserted Tipple-Fajardo wedge. Like Michael Eskin, Lee is also playing "Maids of Mt. Cisco".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCLpOk4Aaas
Tomoaki Hatakeyama in Hyogo, Japan recorded "O'Sullivans" and "The Limestone Rock" with the microphone on his minidisc recorder without reverberation. The sound quality isn't great, but the playing is much better. He gave me his permission to host the tunes here. Tomoaki is playing a Tipple flute in F. This clip is 2.5 MB in size.
http://dougsflutes.googlepages.com/dougtipple_hatao.mp3.
Iker Lope de Bergara is a woodwind player in the band Korrontzi in the Basque region of Spain. He sent me this dance from the Basque country, entitled Ostalerrak. Unfortunately, the bouzouki player, Ibon Ordunez, is recorded a little too loudly, so it is difficult to hear the flute as well as you would like. Iker is playing my 3-piece Eb flute with the lip plate.
http://dougsflutes.googlepages.com/ostalerrak.mp3