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

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

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Irish Flute

New Chromatic Fingering Chart added to the Site

Hi Everybody,

After far too much thinking, I have added a revised fingering chart for my 10 hole Chromatic system instruments to the site.  It may be a bit confusing but it's the best I could come up with, any suggestions for future editions of it are welcome.  You will see this "For a 10 hole fingering chart, see this link;  http://www.skiphealy.com/chart/" in all sections pertaining to 10 hole instruments.  I hope it helps!! 

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10-Hole Fingering Chart

Fingering chart for the Healy Flute Companies 10-hole chromatic system for Fifes, Flutes and Piccolos:

I know this chart will be a bit confusing but if you take your time you can understand it.  This is the best system that we could come up with for ease of learning. Feel free to contact me with any suggestions! 

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Skips Tips Express #1 - The Low D


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The flute lesson for people who don'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's only 60 seconds, what have you got to lose???

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Client Testimonials

                               

                        CLIENT  TESTIMONIALS CONCERNING HEALY FLUTE COMPANY INSTRUMENTS  

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Hand-Chased Keywork

On a custom basis, the Healy Flute Company can provide custom, hand-tooled engraving on your keywork. Pricing depends on the pattern and how much engraving you want. Email Skip with questions.

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Open-C Keyed Flute

Featuring the same construction and quality of the rib-mounted keyed wooden flute, our Open-C model replaces the long C natural key with an open tone hole covered by the left thumb. Popular with Boehm flute players switching to simple-system instruments, the Open-C model provides a perfect C natural while providing a natural, keyless option to the long C key.

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Post-Mounted Keyed Wooden Flutes

An old favorite in the Healy Flute family has undergone a great update! Our new, threaded "pedestal post" design lets us set the posts into the flute body with greater strength and stability. This design also lowers the key height in relation to the flute body for easier access to the touch pieces. This increases the easy-of-use and responsiveness of the key mechanisms on your Healy flute. Upgrade your keyless flute to a fully chromatic keyed flute and get all those pesky half steps with ease! 

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Keyless Wooden Flutes

About 10 days for standard-model keyless flutes. Customized instruments will require additional time depending on the level of customization. Payment due in full when your order is placed. We now accept PayPal, personal checks, money orders and direct deposit where available. Email Skip with questions.

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Keyless Chromatic Flute (10-hole)

How would you like to get a wooden flute that offers a fully chromatic range but with no cross-fingering, half-holing, or keys? You get just that with our keyless chromatic 10-hole flute. Though it takes some time get used to dedicating each finger to a tone hole, many of our clients have taken the challenge and absolutely love this instrument.

For a 10 hole fingering chart, see this link;  http://www.skiphealy.com/chart/

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Key of D   ...   $1,750.00

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Open-C Keyless Flute

Our three-piece, open-C keyless flute utilizes the exact same design and construction at the standard unkeyed flute, but with one major difference. We've replaced the cross-fingering of C naturals with an open C tone hole operated by the left thumb. This allows you to produce a perfect C natural without cross-fingering and without a long C key.

The Healy keyless open-C flute body is shown above two keyed flutes. Click the image to get a clear view of the open-C thumb hole.

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Wind on the Bay

October 4,5,6 2013 in the Greenwich Odeum -- "Wind On The Bay" provides an atmosphere where players, makers, teachers, and students of traditional music can get together to learn, share, and socialize in a relaxed and comfortable setting.

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

Covering my Tracks

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

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Skip's Tips Express

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  • Skips Tips Express #1 - The Low D

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Skip's Tips

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  • Straight from The Lip
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  • Feel the Bore
  • Weather or Not

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Events

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

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