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September 10, 2009 at 9:36 pm
· Filed under Flute, Flute Making, Flute Players, Ireland, Irish flute, Martin Doyle Flutes, Recently Added, Testimonials, Website
Tomás MacUileagóid, a flute player, fiddler and harp player/maker from Dublin, Ireland, has kindly added a testimonial to Martin Doyle Flutes. Tomás recently purchased a keyed flute from Martin Doyle.
“Hi Martin, I have thought a lot about writing to you since I got my keyed flute from you. I wanted to really feel my way into it and explore what it has to offer. I am astounded by the range of colour available, just waiting for me to exploit it. The tones available far exceed what I could get on the flute I got off you 10 years ago. I wanted the keys because I have a particular interest in the music of east Galway, Paddy Kelly and Paddy Fahey in particular, and you can’t really manage that without the F natural. Obviously since I have a keyed flute I notice other flutes much more, and I am continuously impressed by your standard of craftsmanship, and I understand how difficult it is to maintain such a high standard. Well done!! I don’t know what motivates you as an instrument maker, but I enjoy being able to create something that is unique with its own voice, that will hopefully live long after me and in some small way contribute to making the world a better place. I think you have already achieved this. Thank you. Regards, Tomás.”
Very thoughtful and insightful words from a fellow instrument maker — thank you for your kind and encouraging comments Tomás.
This and other testimonials from owners of Martin Doyle flutes can be viewed here: Testimonials
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August 13, 2009 at 4:27 am
· Filed under Flute Players, Irish flute, Irish traditional music, Music, Musicians, Recently Added, Testimonials, Website, Wooden Flutes ·Tagged band, County Kerry, Danu, Flute, Ireland, Irish traditional music, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, music sample, musician, player, Testimonial
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh
is an accomplished flute and whistle player and singer from
Dún Chaoin in County Kerry, Ireland. She is the lead singer and flute player with the traditional Irish music group
Danú, and is a tutor at the
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick.
Muireann plays a Martin Doyle flute and has been kind enough to offer a testimonial for Martin Doyle Flutes and a sample of her flute playing from the album Dual — a collaboration with Julie Fowlis, Éamon Doorley and Ross Martin that was released in November of 2008.
Muireann’s testimonial reads:
“I have been playing a Martin Doyle African Blackwood ‘D’ flute since 2001. As a touring musician I am delighted with its reliability and consistensy of tone, no matter where I am in the world. The flute is perfectly in tune which is very important when playing in a band context. I also love the fact that it can produce a variety of sounds from a powerful bark to a sweeter, clearer tone, making it a very expressive instrument and suitable for all kinds of music from wild Kerry Polkas to more subtle slow airs. I always recommend Martin’s flutes to my flute students.”
More testimonials from owners of Martin Doyle flutes may be viewed here: Testimonials — and Muireann’s music sample can be heard here: Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh
Our thanks to Muireann for her kindness. We have posted a video clip of Muireann playing her Martin Doyle flute after the fold — a lovely example of Irish traditional music…
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April 29, 2009 at 1:17 am
· Filed under Flute Players, Irish flute, Martin Doyle Flutes, Recently Added, Testimonials, Website ·Tagged Added, Clonmel, Co Tipperary, Ireland, Martin Doyle Flutes, new, Paul McCarthy, Testimonial
Martin Doyle has just received a very kind testimonial from Paul MaCarthy – a self professed ‘flute player for the fun of it’ who hails from Clonmel in County Tipperary, Ireland. Paul’s kind testimonial is as follows:
Paul McCarthy playing his Martin Doyle cocus wood flute
“Having played other flutes (mainly African blackwood with headliner) and been dissatisfied with their somewhat capricious nature, I started searching for an instrument which did not have these flaws. After scratching around the country on and off for months and visiting several well respected flute makers, I failed to find what I was looking for. Maybe it was me and not the flutes but I found them very unacceptably fickle. Eventually in the autumn of 2005 I found myself in a snug workshop in Bray talking with a very relaxed and affable flute maker who invited me to sit into the corner and try any flute I could find. There were several on a rack on the table next to me so I started with the one closest to me and worked my way along about 7 or 8 of them. Being of a methodical nature, I played the same tune (a slip jig called A Fig For A Kiss) on each of them to better judge their performance. All were sweet toned, balanced and uncapricious. Then my eye lit on it. A nice looking Cocuswood, unkeyed, unlined flute at the end of the rack. The feeling I got on playing those first few notes I can still recall. Absolutely gorgeous tone, weight and balance, not a hint of fickleness and with that lovely soft, mellow reverberation which comes with good tone. Low D? No problem. Another fifteen minutes playing passed interspersed with question and answers with Martin. The decision to buy this particular flute was not made by me nor by Martin but by the flute. This thing of beauty is of the rare sort and gives massive enjoyment. Thanks are not enough Martin Doyle!”
Thank you Paul…
This and other testimonials can be viewed on Martin’s Testimonials, Testimonials 2 and Testimonials 3pages.
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March 10, 2009 at 9:05 am
· Filed under Flute Making, Flute Players, Irish flute, Martin Doyle, Musicians, Recently Added, Wooden Flutes ·Tagged Desi Wilkinson, Dyad, Elizabeth Petcu, essay, Flute, maker, Martin Doyle, player
In 2002, as the final semester essay undertaken to gain her Masters Degree in Music, Martin Doyle’s good friend Elizabeth Petcu wrote ‘A Phenomenological Study into the Experiences of a Flute Maker/Player Dyad’. With her kind permission, this essay has been published on Martin Doyle Flutes in six parts.
This phenomenological study is an interesting and illumining insight into the relationship between a flute maker, Martin Doyle, and a flute player – in this case the renowned Irish traditional musician and music scholar, Desi Wilkinson.
The following are snippets from A Flute Maker/Player Dyad…
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February 6, 2009 at 1:08 am
· Filed under Martin Doyle Flutes, Recently Added, Translations, Updates, Website ·Tagged Added, Diarmuid Breathnach, homepage, Irish language version, Leagan Gaeilge, Martin Doyle Flutes, translation, update
Just added to Martin Doyle Flutes: a Irish version of Martin Doyle’s homepage.
The translation was very kindly furnished by the renowned Irish biographer and encyclopaedist Diarmuid Breathnach of County Wicklow, Ireland.
Born in 1930, Diarmuid was educated at University College Dublin and became a librarian in Kilkenny, then a sound archivist and chief librarian at RTÉ from 1974 to 1986. His major achievement is the compilation, with Máire Ní Mhurchú, of Beathaisnéis, a multi-volume dictionary of modern Gaelic culture. On May 17, 2002, the National University of Ireland conferred honarary degrees – The Degree of Doctor of Celtic Studies – upon Diarmuid Breathnach and Máire Ní Mhurchú at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Read more…
Our heart-felt gratitude goes to Diarmuid for his kind efforts with the Irish translation of the Martin Doyle’s homepage – thank you Diarmuid!
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July 16, 2009 at 11:29 pm · Filed under Martin Doyle, Martin Doyle Flutes, Recently Added, Testimonials, Translations, Website ·Tagged additions, comments, Irish language, Martin Doyle Flutes, new, Page, Testimonials, Website
And one from David Craig of Duluth, Minnesota, USA, who writes,
Three pages of testimonials from owners of Martin Doyle flutes may be viewed from here: Testimonials
Also added is a translation of the About Martin Doyle page into Irish. This page was kindly translated into Irish by the renowned Irish biographer and encyclopaedist Diarmuid Breathnach of County Wicklow, Ireland. The new page may be viewed here: Sceal Máirtín Ó Dubhghaill. Our thanks to Diarmuid Breathnach for his time and kind patience.
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