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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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Skip's Tips

Pick Your Partner

Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You

For the second time, here is a question submitted by Bill Goelz. To paraphrase, is it better to stick with one flute or play a mix of several flutes? For the sake of full disclosure, I will say that one of the flutes that Bill plays is a Skip Healy flute, not that that would influence my opinion or anything...heh, heh, heh.

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Straight from The Lip

A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute

Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.

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Volume Control

Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute

Skip Healy here once again after a short post Wind On The Bay hiatus. Here in the States, our Thanksgiving holiday has just passed. Hanukkah is upon us and Christmas and New Years loom imminent before us.

WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!

But for those who do, here is something to think about.

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Feel the Bore

How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute

Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I've tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I'd like to talk about the "feel" generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.

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Weather or Not

A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players

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Advanced Fingering Techniques

Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute

Skip here once again with a few thought provoking and hopefully helpful words to say about flutes and related themes. First off, we always encourage people to contact us with comments or suggestions for topics for me to bloviate upon. In the past several months, we've received more and more comments and we thank you for them.

Today's topic is "Advanced Fingering Techniques." Getting nervous yet...?

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Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

The Zen Behind the Zoom in Irish Flute

Welcome you all, old and new members, to another chapter of Dante's...oops, I mean Skip's Tips. Many of you know that I sometimes do very technique-oriented tips, and sometimes very Zen tips. This is a Zen tip. Or, as I like to call it, the Zen behind the Zoom.

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Anybody for a Roll?

How To Play a Roll on the Wooden Flute

The next stop on our whimsical mystery tour through the wonders of ornamentation takes us to the magical land of rolls. There are different kinds of rolls for different situations...a jelly roll with coffee in the morning, for example or a lovey kaiser roll for your hamburger in the afternoon. And of course, the furious rolling of your fingers as we play Irish tunes.

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The Scoop on Glissando & Vibrato

More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute

I'd like to continue on with the subject of ornamentation that was begun in the past missive. The next two components of the seven venial sins of ornamentation that I'd like to talk about are vibrato and glissando. There are two main styles or techniques of vibrato. One is a finger manipulation while the other is done through breath and muscle control.

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So You Wanna Hear About Ornaments?

A Short Guide To Ornamentation on Wooden / Irish Flute

First off, I'd like to thank all the folk who responded to my request for future subject matter in this column. All of the suggestions were thought provoking, though some may prove anatomically impossible to achieve. More on that later...

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Wind on the Bay

October 4,5,6 2013 in the Greenwich Odeum -- "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!

Covering my Tracks

  • Covering my Tracks # 3; "Empty Pockets" from the album "Empty Pockets" 1984
  • Covering my Tracks #2; "Christmas in the Trenches" from "The Cartel, Songs and Tunes of Adventure and Loss"
  • Covering my Tracks #1 "Swallowtail-Fifty Cents" from Empty Pockets

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Skip's Tips Express

  • Skips Tips Express #2 High Notes
  • Skips Tips Express #1 - The Low D

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Events

  • Saturday, Jun 22, 2013
    Gala Concert "Celtic Fusion"
  • Thursday, Sep 05, 2013
    Avenches Tattoo, Avenches, Switzerland
  • Friday, Oct 04, 2013
    Wind on the Bay 2013 in the Greenwich Odeum

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