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 <title>The Scoop on Glissando &amp; Vibrato</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Weather or Not</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Let The Bottom Fall Off</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Volume Control</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>The Scoop on Glissando &amp; Vibrato</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Play What You Hear When You Hear It</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Playing Each Note with Confidence&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ve talked about how important it is to listen to what is going on around you while you&#039;re playing. As we&#039;ve said, music at its best is like conversation at its best. This entails listening, understanding, and responding to what is being said or played. The trick is to not wait too long before responding. Let&#039;s think about notes for a minute. I like to think that a note is comprised of three parts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/10.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Skips Tips Express #1 - The Low D</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Play What You Hear When You Hear It</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Playing Each Note with Confidence&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ve talked about how important it is to listen to what is going on around you while you&#039;re playing. As we&#039;ve said, music at its best is like conversation at its best. This entails listening, understanding, and responding to what is being said or played. The trick is to not wait too long before responding. Let&#039;s think about notes for a minute. I like to think that a note is comprised of three parts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/10.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Skips Tips Express #1 - The Low D</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/node/358</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>D# or Eb? It&#039;s Enharmonic!</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Advanced Fingering Techniques</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>The Scoop on Glissando &amp; Vibrato</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Weather or Not</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Volume Control</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Play What You Hear When You Hear It</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Playing Each Note with Confidence&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ve talked about how important it is to listen to what is going on around you while you&#039;re playing. As we&#039;ve said, music at its best is like conversation at its best. This entails listening, understanding, and responding to what is being said or played. The trick is to not wait too long before responding. Let&#039;s think about notes for a minute. I like to think that a note is comprised of three parts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/10.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Volume Control</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Skips Tips Express #1 - The Low D</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/node/358</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Vibrato or Quiver-Quaver</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Feel the Bore</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Play What You Hear When You Hear It</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/10.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Playing Each Note with Confidence&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ve talked about how important it is to listen to what is going on around you while you&#039;re playing. As we&#039;ve said, music at its best is like conversation at its best. This entails listening, understanding, and responding to what is being said or played. The trick is to not wait too long before responding. Let&#039;s think about notes for a minute. I like to think that a note is comprised of three parts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/10.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Let The Bottom Fall Off</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Playing Each Note with Confidence&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ve talked about how important it is to listen to what is going on around you while you&#039;re playing. As we&#039;ve said, music at its best is like conversation at its best. This entails listening, understanding, and responding to what is being said or played. The trick is to not wait too long before responding. Let&#039;s think about notes for a minute. I like to think that a note is comprised of three parts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/10.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Go Home and Practice </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm#comments</comments>
 <category domain="http://www.skiphealy.com/taxonomy/term/13">Skip&amp;#039;s Tips</category>
 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Skips Tips Express #1 - The Low D</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/node/358</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/node/358#comments</comments>
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 <title>Go Home and Practice </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Volume Control</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Play What You Hear When You Hear It</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Playing Each Note with Confidence&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ve talked about how important it is to listen to what is going on around you while you&#039;re playing. As we&#039;ve said, music at its best is like conversation at its best. This entails listening, understanding, and responding to what is being said or played. The trick is to not wait too long before responding. Let&#039;s think about notes for a minute. I like to think that a note is comprised of three parts.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Playing Each Note with Confidence&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ve talked about how important it is to listen to what is going on around you while you&#039;re playing. As we&#039;ve said, music at its best is like conversation at its best. This entails listening, understanding, and responding to what is being said or played. The trick is to not wait too long before responding. Let&#039;s think about notes for a minute. I like to think that a note is comprised of three parts.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Playing Each Note with Confidence&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ve talked about how important it is to listen to what is going on around you while you&#039;re playing. As we&#039;ve said, music at its best is like conversation at its best. This entails listening, understanding, and responding to what is being said or played. The trick is to not wait too long before responding. Let&#039;s think about notes for a minute. I like to think that a note is comprised of three parts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/10.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Feel the Bore</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Skips Tips Express #1 - The Low D</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/node/358</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/node/358</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Play What You Hear When You Hear It</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Playing Each Note with Confidence&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ve talked about how important it is to listen to what is going on around you while you&#039;re playing. As we&#039;ve said, music at its best is like conversation at its best. This entails listening, understanding, and responding to what is being said or played. The trick is to not wait too long before responding. Let&#039;s think about notes for a minute. I like to think that a note is comprised of three parts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/10.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Advanced Fingering Techniques</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Feel the Bore</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>D# or Eb? It&#039;s Enharmonic!</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>D# or Eb? It&#039;s Enharmonic!</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Go Home and Practice </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Volume Control</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Volume Control</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Vibrato or Quiver-Quaver</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Weather or Not</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Skips Tips Express #1 - The Low D</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/node/358</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Volume Control</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Let The Bottom Fall Off</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Weather or Not</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Let The Bottom Fall Off</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm#comments</comments>
 <category domain="http://www.skiphealy.com/taxonomy/term/13">Skip&amp;#039;s Tips</category>
 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Straight from The Lip</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm#comments</comments>
 <category domain="http://www.skiphealy.com/taxonomy/term/13">Skip&amp;#039;s Tips</category>
 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Volume Control</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm#comments</comments>
 <category domain="http://www.skiphealy.com/taxonomy/term/13">Skip&amp;#039;s Tips</category>
 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Feel the Bore</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Let The Bottom Fall Off</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Let The Bottom Fall Off</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Skips Tips Express #1 - The Low D</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/node/358</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/node/358#comments</comments>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Volume Control</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/node/358</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Vibrato or Quiver-Quaver</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Vibrato or Quiver-Quaver</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm#comments</comments>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Vibrato or Quiver-Quaver</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>D# or Eb? It&#039;s Enharmonic!</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Playing Each Note with Confidence&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ve talked about how important it is to listen to what is going on around you while you&#039;re playing. As we&#039;ve said, music at its best is like conversation at its best. This entails listening, understanding, and responding to what is being said or played. The trick is to not wait too long before responding. Let&#039;s think about notes for a minute. I like to think that a note is comprised of three parts.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Playing Each Note with Confidence&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ve talked about how important it is to listen to what is going on around you while you&#039;re playing. As we&#039;ve said, music at its best is like conversation at its best. This entails listening, understanding, and responding to what is being said or played. The trick is to not wait too long before responding. Let&#039;s think about notes for a minute. I like to think that a note is comprised of three parts.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Vibrato or Quiver-Quaver</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Advanced Fingering Techniques</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Play What You Hear When You Hear It</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/10.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Playing Each Note with Confidence&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ve talked about how important it is to listen to what is going on around you while you&#039;re playing. As we&#039;ve said, music at its best is like conversation at its best. This entails listening, understanding, and responding to what is being said or played. The trick is to not wait too long before responding. Let&#039;s think about notes for a minute. I like to think that a note is comprised of three parts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/10.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Go Home and Practice </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Weather or Not</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Advanced Fingering Techniques</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>The Scoop on Glissando &amp; Vibrato</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Advanced Fingering Techniques</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Feel the Bore</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Straight from The Lip</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Advanced Fingering Techniques</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Vibrato or Quiver-Quaver</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Volume Control</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>The Scoop on Glissando &amp; Vibrato</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Volume Control</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Vibrato or Quiver-Quaver</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Don&#039;t Let The Bottom Fall Off</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Playing Each Note with Confidence&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ve talked about how important it is to listen to what is going on around you while you&#039;re playing. As we&#039;ve said, music at its best is like conversation at its best. This entails listening, understanding, and responding to what is being said or played. The trick is to not wait too long before responding. Let&#039;s think about notes for a minute. I like to think that a note is comprised of three parts.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Volume Control</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Weather or Not</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>The Scoop on Glissando &amp; Vibrato</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Go Home and Practice </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm#comments</comments>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Weather or Not</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Volume Control</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Go Home and Practice </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>D# or Eb? It&#039;s Enharmonic!</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Weather or Not</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>The Scoop on Glissando &amp; Vibrato</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Go Home and Practice </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Weather or Not</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Play What You Hear When You Hear It</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/10.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Playing Each Note with Confidence&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ve talked about how important it is to listen to what is going on around you while you&#039;re playing. As we&#039;ve said, music at its best is like conversation at its best. This entails listening, understanding, and responding to what is being said or played. The trick is to not wait too long before responding. Let&#039;s think about notes for a minute. I like to think that a note is comprised of three parts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/10.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Advanced Fingering Techniques</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Playing Each Note with Confidence&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ve talked about how important it is to listen to what is going on around you while you&#039;re playing. As we&#039;ve said, music at its best is like conversation at its best. This entails listening, understanding, and responding to what is being said or played. The trick is to not wait too long before responding. Let&#039;s think about notes for a minute. I like to think that a note is comprised of three parts.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Skips Tips Express #1 - The Low D</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Volume Control</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Let The Bottom Fall Off</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Volume Control</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Skips Tips Express #1 - The Low D</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm#comments</comments>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm#comments</comments>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm#comments</comments>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm#comments</comments>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>The Scoop on Glissando &amp; Vibrato</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Don&#039;t Let The Bottom Fall Off</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>The Scoop on Glissando &amp; Vibrato</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm#comments</comments>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Don&#039;t Let The Bottom Fall Off</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Skips Tips Express #1 - The Low D</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Let The Bottom Fall Off</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Feel the Bore</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Weather or Not</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Advanced Fingering Techniques</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>The Scoop on Glissando &amp; Vibrato</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm#comments</comments>
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>D# or Eb? It&#039;s Enharmonic!</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Weather or Not</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Go Home and Practice </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>D# or Eb? It&#039;s Enharmonic!</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm#comments</comments>
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 <title>Advanced Fingering Techniques</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm#comments</comments>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Skips Tips Express #1 - The Low D</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Weather or Not</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/node/358#comments</comments>
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 <title>The Scoop on Glissando &amp; Vibrato</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Feel the Bore</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Feel the Bore</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>D# or Eb? It&#039;s Enharmonic!</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Go Home and Practice </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Go Home and Practice </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>D# or Eb? It&#039;s Enharmonic!</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Go Home and Practice </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Volume Control</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Let The Bottom Fall Off</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Straight from The Lip</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Go Home and Practice </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Vibrato or Quiver-Quaver</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Advanced Fingering Techniques</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Vibrato or Quiver-Quaver</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Skips Tips Express #1 - The Low D</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Feel the Bore</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>D# or Eb? It&#039;s Enharmonic!</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Straight from The Lip</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Go Home and Practice </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Go Home and Practice </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Let The Bottom Fall Off</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Skips Tips Express #1 - The Low D</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/node/358</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>The Scoop on Glissando &amp; Vibrato</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Skips Tips Express #1 - The Low D</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Let The Bottom Fall Off</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Straight from The Lip</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Volume Control</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Weather or Not</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Weather or Not</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/23.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>The Scoop on Glissando &amp; Vibrato</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>D# or Eb? It&#039;s Enharmonic!</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Vibrato or Quiver-Quaver</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Vibrato or Quiver-Quaver</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Let The Bottom Fall Off</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Go Home and Practice </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>The Scoop on Glissando &amp; Vibrato</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>The Scoop on Glissando &amp; Vibrato</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Skips Tips Express #1 - The Low D</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/node/358</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Feel the Bore</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>The Scoop on Glissando &amp; Vibrato</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Advanced Fingering Techniques</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>The Scoop on Glissando &amp; Vibrato</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Skips Tips Express #1 - The Low D</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Volume Control</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Advanced Fingering Techniques</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>D# or Eb? It&#039;s Enharmonic!</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Head Positions</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/07.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Skips Tips Express #1 - The Low D</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/node/358</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>D# or Eb? It&#039;s Enharmonic!</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Let The Bottom Fall Off</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Vibrato or Quiver-Quaver</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Skips Tips Express #1 - The Low D</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/node/358</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>D# or Eb? It&#039;s Enharmonic!</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>The Scoop on Glissando &amp; Vibrato</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Feel the Bore</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Volume Control</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/25.htm#comments</comments>
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 <title>Pick Your Partner</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Vibrato or Quiver-Quaver</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm#comments</comments>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Practice Techniques for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/13.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/27.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Straight from The Lip</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/05.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Anybody for a Roll?</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Play a Roll on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/20.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Play a Roll on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/20.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Play a Roll on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/20.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Play a Roll on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/20.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Control = Speed</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Getting Up To Speed on Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Be honest. Have you ever driven your care 45 MPH in a 25 MPH zone? Like most regulations, formal or informal, there is a reason for this rule. A speed restriction on our cars is meant to enhance public safety. It implies a certain vehicular decorum, if you will. It&#039;s the same thing in a session.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/09.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Breathe When You Breathe &quot;Audio Enhanced&quot;</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Anybody for a Roll?</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Play a Roll on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/20.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Control = Speed</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/09.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Getting Up To Speed on Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Be honest. Have you ever driven your care 45 MPH in a 25 MPH zone? Like most regulations, formal or informal, there is a reason for this rule. A speed restriction on our cars is meant to enhance public safety. It implies a certain vehicular decorum, if you will. It&#039;s the same thing in a session.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/09.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm#comments</comments>
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 <title>Feel the Bore</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm#comments</comments>
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 <title>Feel the Bore</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm#comments</comments>
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 <title>Vibrato or Quiver-Quaver</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/04.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Anybody for a Roll?</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/20.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Play a Roll on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/20.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/20.htm#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <comments>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm#comments</comments>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Straight from The Lip</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Lesson About Embouchure on the Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/26.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Don&#039;t Give Up Your Embouchure</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <title>Learning Irish Flute Tunes By Ear</title>
 <link>http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/06.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everybody!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Ornamentation on Wooden Flute&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/19.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Before we get into this week&#039;s tip, I want to ask everyone to put on their thinking caps, open a new email, and send me ideas for what you want to hear me rant about in this column. There&#039;s no limit. Send me all you&#039;ve got and everything you&#039;re thinking about. This will help me determine what kind of information you really need, compared to what I might think you want to read about. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This week I&#039;m going to give you a quickie...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/17.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;Before we get into this week&#039;s tip, I want to ask everyone to put on their thinking caps, open a new email, and send me ideas for what you want to hear me rant about in this column. There&#039;s no limit. Send me all you&#039;ve got and everything you&#039;re thinking about. This will help me determine what kind of information you really need, compared to what I might think you want to read about. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This week I&#039;m going to give you a quickie...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/17.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Before we get into this week&#039;s tip, I want to ask everyone to put on their thinking caps, open a new email, and send me ideas for what you want to hear me rant about in this column. There&#039;s no limit. Send me all you&#039;ve got and everything you&#039;re thinking about. This will help me determine what kind of information you really need, compared to what I might think you want to read about. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This week I&#039;m going to give you a quickie...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/17.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/02.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;Before we get into this week&#039;s tip, I want to ask everyone to put on their thinking caps, open a new email, and send me ideas for what you want to hear me rant about in this column. There&#039;s no limit. Send me all you&#039;ve got and everything you&#039;re thinking about. This will help me determine what kind of information you really need, compared to what I might think you want to read about. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This week I&#039;m going to give you a quickie...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/17.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/24.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Before we get into this week&#039;s tip, I want to ask everyone to put on their thinking caps, open a new email, and send me ideas for what you want to hear me rant about in this column. There&#039;s no limit. Send me all you&#039;ve got and everything you&#039;re thinking about. This will help me determine what kind of information you really need, compared to what I might think you want to read about. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This week I&#039;m going to give you a quickie...&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Before we get into this week&#039;s tip, I want to ask everyone to put on their thinking caps, open a new email, and send me ideas for what you want to hear me rant about in this column. There&#039;s no limit. Send me all you&#039;ve got and everything you&#039;re thinking about. This will help me determine what kind of information you really need, compared to what I might think you want to read about. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This week I&#039;m going to give you a quickie...&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/01.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/22.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Before we get into this week&#039;s tip, I want to ask everyone to put on their thinking caps, open a new email, and send me ideas for what you want to hear me rant about in this column. There&#039;s no limit. Send me all you&#039;ve got and everything you&#039;re thinking about. This will help me determine what kind of information you really need, compared to what I might think you want to read about. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This week I&#039;m going to give you a quickie...&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skiphealy.com/music/tips/16.htm&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building a Strong Embouchure for Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Projecting Good Tone on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;m baaaack.....! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sorry being gone for a bit, but I just finished a new recording called Purgatory Chasm that I&#039;m very excited about. It should be available in a few weeks. Now for a lesson. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Importance of Projecting&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the Right Wooden Flute for You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Warming Up To Play Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now that we have spent the last week lurking about in our hallways and bathrooms blowing on our headjoints till they are nice and warm, it&#039;s time to get to the good stuff. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;People often ask how they can tell when the headjoint is warmed up. It&#039;s easy. The headjoint will feel warm to the touch. At this point, let&#039;s assemble your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The flute lesson for people who don&#039;t have the time for a flute lesson. Skip shares his views, opinions and techniques for playing in a fast paced, 60 second flute lesson. Just click on the Hideout SXPF Music Player thingy and check it out! It&#039;s only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Playing Each Note with Confidence&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ve talked about how important it is to listen to what is going on around you while you&#039;re playing. As we&#039;ve said, music at its best is like conversation at its best. This entails listening, understanding, and responding to what is being said or played. The trick is to not wait too long before responding. Let&#039;s think about notes for a minute. I like to think that a note is comprised of three parts.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How To Position a Wooden Flute Headjoint for Good Tone &amp;amp; Volume&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Putting Passion Into Your Wooden Flute Playing&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Before we get into this week&#039;s tip, I want to ask everyone to put on their thinking caps, open a new email, and send me ideas for what you want to hear me rant about in this column. There&#039;s no limit. Send me all you&#039;ve got and everything you&#039;re thinking about. This will help me determine what kind of information you really need, compared to what I might think you want to read about. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This week I&#039;m going to give you a quickie...&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Posture for Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This tip will be my idea of what optimum posture is and why it is essential to think of your body position in relation to the flute. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sit up straight in a straight-backed chair. Keep your head pointed straight ahead and shoulders squared and parallel to your hips. Your neck is straight and your head is in its most natural position.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Short Guide To Ornamentation on Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off, I&#039;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...&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maintaining Consistent Tone and Volume When Playing Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Breathing Techniques for Playing Wooden / Irish Flute and Fife&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The first step of this lesson is to get your minds out of the gutter... &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;People often ask &amp;quot;How do you get notes to pop out of the flute?&amp;quot; The best way to create this effect is to bring your fingers firmly down on the flute when you close tone holes. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Listen to the playing of Matt Malloy. You can hear his fingers slapping down on the flute to close the tone holes. This gives a really cool percussive feel to your style of playing, too.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Welcome you all, old and new members, to another chapter of Dante&#039;s...oops, I mean Skip&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Repair Kit for Irish Flute Players&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tone Hole Techniques for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Octave Fingerings for Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Getting Up To Speed on Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Be honest. Have you ever driven your care 45 MPH in a 25 MPH zone? Like most regulations, formal or informal, there is a reason for this rule. A speed restriction on our cars is meant to enhance public safety. It implies a certain vehicular decorum, if you will. It&#039;s the same thing in a session.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Vibrato Technique on Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Be honest. Have you ever driven your care 45 MPH in a 25 MPH zone? Like most regulations, formal or informal, there is a reason for this rule. A speed restriction on our cars is meant to enhance public safety. It implies a certain vehicular decorum, if you will. It&#039;s the same thing in a session.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;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&#039;ve received more and more comments and we thank you for them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&#039;s topic is &amp;quot;Advanced Fingering Techniques.&amp;quot; Getting nervous yet...?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Many people ask me about playing vibrato. There are basically three kinds of vibrato used in the various forms of traditional flute and fife music. I would like to talk about my two favorites. One is the traditional finger-style vibrato and the other is the more &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; abdominally-driven vibrato.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Quick Fix for Cork Wrapped Tenons&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Irish flute players use flutes that often have cork wrapped tenons. If you find that you&#039;re losing power on your low notes, it may because the tenons are too loose. This causes the flute to leak and you lose response as a result. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For a quick fix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I&#039;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&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my thoughts on how to learn tunes by ear. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, there are a few different aspects involved in learning a tune by ear. First, tone recognition. Then follows rhythm recognition and the tune itself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tone Recognition:&lt;br /&gt;
This is the ability to tell that the note you hear is a G note or a D note or an F# note, and being able to hear an A note played on a fiddle or concertina and still recognize it as an A note you play on the flute.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Bore Design Impacts Your Playing Wooden / Irish Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here for another inner voyage into the Zen behind the Zoom. In past columns, I&#039;ve tried to offer advice on both the physicality and philosophy that I feel is involved in playing flutes or fifes well. Today, I&#039;d like to talk about the &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; generated by various bore designs existing in flutes, fifes, and piccolos.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Putting Passion Into Your Wooden Flute Playing&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Before we get into this week&#039;s tip, I want to ask everyone to put on their thinking caps, open a new email, and send me ideas for what you want to hear me rant about in this column. There&#039;s no limit. Send me all you&#039;ve got and everything you&#039;re thinking about. This will help me determine what kind of information you really need, compared to what I might think you want to read about. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This week I&#039;m going to give you a quickie...&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO HAS TIME TO BLOW ON A DANG FLUTE ANYWAY!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But for those who do, here is something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In the past I&#039;ve spoken about using your fingers, don&#039;t give up your embouchure, and breathe when you breathe. The one thing these all have in common is that your head is playing a very active roll in all of these techniques. One important thing to keep in mind is the position of your head in relation to the embouchure hole on your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We all get a bit &amp;quot;dry&amp;quot; when playing from time to time, when that happens, we reach for a glass of whatever and take a good pull off it to quench our thirst. Do the same thing when you breathe. Make sure you actually have an intake of air that is sufficient to play the next passage. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Try to fill your lungs and not just your throat with air. You should hear a deep &amp;quot;whoosh&amp;quot; sound when you inhale, not just a brief gasp.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Now that we have spent the last week lurking about in our hallways and bathrooms blowing on our headjoints till they are nice and warm, it&#039;s time to get to the good stuff. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;People often ask how they can tell when the headjoint is warmed up. It&#039;s easy. The headjoint will feel warm to the touch. At this point, let&#039;s assemble your flute.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;First off, I&#039;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...&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How (and Why) To Use the D# Key on your Wooden Flute&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of people wonder about the Eb (or D#) key at the end of their flute and whether they should use it or not. I think everyone should make an attempt to learn how to use this key. To me, it almost always improves the intonation and tone color of the Eb note (or D#) of every flute I&#039;ve heard played. Irish pipers use this technique of passing through the Eb (or D#) to get to low Ds, and it really freaks them out when you do it along with them on the flute!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In the last tip, we talked about getting a good supply of air. Remember, no air = no tune. In this lesson, let&#039;s discuss how to use it. Let&#039;s approach this from the standpoint that we&#039;re trying to fuse two separate machines into one integral unit. The flute is the machine that creates the tones and the player is the machine that supplies the fuel (air). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR EMBOUCHURE IS THE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING TONE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Skip Healy here again shooting straight from the lip this time. This tip is inspired by a question sent to me by Bill Goelz.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The first step of this lesson is to get your minds out of the gutter... &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;People often ask &amp;quot;How do you get notes to pop out of the flute?&amp;quot; The best way to create this effect is to bring your fingers firmly down on the flute when you close tone holes. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Listen to the playing of Matt Malloy. You can hear his fingers slapping down on the flute to close the tone holes. This gives a really cool percussive feel to your style of playing, too.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I&#039;m baaaack.....! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sorry being gone for a bit, but I just finished a new recording called Purgatory Chasm that I&#039;m very excited about. It should be available in a few weeks. Now for a lesson. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Importance of Projecting&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This tip will be my idea of what optimum posture is and why it is essential to think of your body position in relation to the flute. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sit up straight in a straight-backed chair. Keep your head pointed straight ahead and shoulders squared and parallel to your hips. Your neck is straight and your head is in its most natural position.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;First off, I would like to welcome all of the new members that we have on the Skip&#039;s Tips list. At the moment, we have nearly 450 people from ten different countries who apparently have nothing better to do, but read my nonsense. Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ve talked about how important it is to listen to what is going on around you while you&#039;re playing. As we&#039;ve said, music at its best is like conversation at its best. This entails listening, understanding, and responding to what is being said or played. The trick is to not wait too long before responding. Let&#039;s think about notes for a minute. I like to think that a note is comprised of three parts.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Welcome you all, old and new members, to another chapter of Dante&#039;s...oops, I mean Skip&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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