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Flutes, Fifes and Piccolos

The Healy Flute Company offers and quickly delivers the finest keyed and unkeyed wooden flutes, fifes, and piccolos. Choose from a variety of woods, keys, and customizatons. click here.

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For over thirty years, Skip Healy has been a renowned, Grammy-nominated performer of Irish flute and American fife music. For details on Skip Healy, his work and his music, just click here.

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Instrument Care & Repair

Ask ten people about the care and feeding of wooden flutes, fifes, and piccolos and you'll get ten different opinions ranging from perfectly credible to utterly absurd. If you wrote down all of the online and offline discussion about oiling wooden flutes alone, you could probably fill several large city libraries.

On these pages, you'll find our small contribution to the mountains of information already floating around the internet and in pubs around the world. We're going to cover several areas of woodenflute maintenance and repair including basic wooden flute care, wooden flute repair (when to call a professional vs. do-it-yourself), our antique instrument restoration services, as well as ordering and caring for customized instruments.

But before you go too far, please realize that the advice and recommendations you find here represents the opinions of the Healy Flute Company...and nothing more. It would be wrong for us to assert that we (or anyone else) have the ultimate answers on flute care. We recommend that you do plenty of research here and elsewhere to form your own educated conclusions.

Ultimately, we strongly recommend that you follow the instructions provided to you by your instrument maker whether it's us or anyone else.

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Wind on the Bay

October 3-5, 2008 -- "Wind On The Bay" provides an atmosphere where players, makers, teachers, and students of traditional music can get together to learn, share, and socialize in a relaxed and comfortable setting.

Visit www.windonthebay.com for information on clinicians, classes, and concerts!

Skip's Tips

  • Pick Your Partner
  • Straight from The Lip
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  • Feel the Bore
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Events

  • Saturday, September 27, 2008
    CARNEGIE HALL , New York City (yup THAT Carnegie hall) in the Weill Recital Hall
  • Friday, October 3, 2008 - Sunday, October 5, 2008
    Wind on the Bay

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