The Windy Gate & Jenny's Wedding (English/Welsh-Irish) Reels

[jjbonkers]

Nice sound, what kind of flute is that?

[dougsflutes]

Jem is playing my Tipple flute, which is makde from pvc. Please see my home page and visit my website. I should add that a lot of the way a flute sounds has to do with the player. In other words, it is Jem's skill and experience that is making the flute sound as well as is does.

[jjbonkers]

Still, you could have Matt Molloy playing certain flutes and they'd still sound like a pig fart! Am impressed, will keep an eye out for the name....

[Jemtheflute]

I should perhaps just clarify my description of the first tune here! It is an Irish style reel written in Cardiff, Wales by an Englishman who has lived in Wales all his adult life and plays Irish and Welsh music (mostly). The title "The Windy Gate" is a reminisence of something that happened in Devon in England, of which the tune reminded me once written, but which wasn't a direct inspiration!