Tune Req: Pre 1776 Scottish tunes for Flageol

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pre 1776 Scottish tunes for Flageol
From: GUEST,guest, leeneia
Date: 15 Apr 00 - 05:39 PM

I own a flageolet, and I must say it's $60 ill-spent. It has a range of only 8 notes, which is pretty small for traditional dance tunes.

Do you have any tips for getting the higher notes out of a flageolet?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pre 1776 Scottish tunes for Flageol
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 15 Apr 00 - 04:09 AM

G'day Fortunato,

I think that, at 1776, the flageolet would have been relatively common, the recorder was going out of use in preference to the more powerful cross-blown flute, piccolo and fife but the flageolet seems to have survived as an amateur instrument right through. (The recorder was revived in the early 1900s.)

The tin whistle is a product of the industrial age and probably did not exist in any form in 1776, although its immediate ancestors, simple six tone-hole whistles of wood, were common and are in an unbroken line back, at least, to neolithic whistles of wood, bone and reed.

The flageolet seems to have still been around in the Victorian age as the "Shepherd's Flute" (probably a fanciful name) because of the soft intonation that came from its bulbous air chamber above the fipple 'balancing out' the air pressure and producing a quiet flowing melody, so it may well have been very appropriate for a young man to play to his love.

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pre 1776 Scottish tunes for Flageol
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Apr 00 - 02:29 PM

Yes IanC. I think he would, they would have been available if not as familiar as the penny whistle and fife. Does anyone disagree?

Bruce O. Thanks muchly.

Regards Fortunato.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pre 1776 Scottish tunes for Flageol
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Apr 00 - 02:29 PM

Yes IanC. I think he would, they would have been available if not as familiar as the penny whistle and fife. Does anyone disagree?

Regards Fortunato.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pre 1776 Scottish tunes for Flageol
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 14 Apr 00 - 11:12 AM

See the Scots tune index on my Website. All are 1794 or earlier. www.erols.com/olsonw

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pre 1776 Scottish tunes for Flageol
From: IanC
Date: 14 Apr 00 - 10:26 AM

Robert Burns was born 1759, so any of his songs would do. They were mostly set to traditional tunes and he collected songs, tunes etc.

Try "My love is like a red, red rose" or "A parting glass"

More at

Cheers!

IanC

PS would he have had a flageolette???

Subject: Pre 1794 Scottish tunes for Flageolette?
From: Fortunato
Date: 14 Apr 00 - 09:46 AM

Help friends: I know almost nothing of Scottish tunes. Please suggest a few that a young Scot might have played to his lass on the flageolette circa 1794. Thank you. regards, Fortunato