Osogovsko Oro

[@gajda1984]

Nice job! I enjoy your music, you have very nice technique. Please post more videos when you get the chance!

[@Tirn0]

Nice stuff!!

[@Jemtheflute]

Thanks for the view and the comment, pashaone. One plays what one has: my R&R is my "best" flute. I don't own a Pratten. (I recently sold a Seery keyless Pratten derived - honked great, but not my kind of flute - I like and need keys.) If I get a chance to acquire a Pratten (original or good modern fully keyed copy) I surely will, and would enjoy it and maybe shift some of my playing to it, but it isn't a priority for me or something I'm waiting for in dissatisfaction with what I have.

[@Jemtheflute]

@JANDAR69: thanks for your comment. There is information about my flute if you read the notes on the video! It is a mid C19th English Concert Flute of the kind now most commonly used for traditional Irish music. In orchestral terminology it would be described as being "in C" because it is not a transposing instrument, but like all pre-Bohm design concert flutes, its "home", plain major diatonic fingers-off-in-order scale is D.

[@JANDAR69]

MAN WHAT KIND OF FLUET IS THIS ?? IT MAY SUITE OsogovKA ON A HIGHER KEY FLUET MY KAVAL IS IN " C " I HOPE IT IS AS I MADE IT

[@lamusiquedeflute]

Great job! Would you happen to know where I could purchase the sheet music please?

[@Jemtheflute]

Hi. This is a traditional tune in the public domain - no need to buy sheet music! I have a downloadable notation document giving both the original setting and the one I play - get it here: app.box.com/s/ln6tsb7je1n8fi8o0hj4d1lxr7aahgtx. (I'll add that to the main blurb, too.) The document also refers to online source material. I was originally taught it in the tonality I still play it in, partly by ear, by Peter Stacey during a multicultural music project he led and in which I was involved in Cardiff in the late 1980s. I don't know where he acquired it. I kept it and did my own thing with it subsequently. :-)

[@lamusiquedeflute]

@@Jemtheflute thank you soooo much! I will have a look at it now. Have a great evening. Cordially. PAULA

[@Jemtheflute]

cont. FWIW, I'd rather improve my technique and get a better sound out of my R&R, which I do manage occasionally (spend too much time doing other stuff and not working at my fluting!): you should hear it when Chris Wilkes or someone with a really good ITM embouchure plays it! Any deficiencies of tone production are mine, not the flute's! Anyway, playing a Macedonian tune on a C19th English instrument doesn't get any points for "authenticity"! (And I don't have/play a kaval either, alas.)