The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle
Grey Larsen
Mel Bay Publications
www.greylarsen.com

This is a comprehensive guide for the beginner to the highly advanced player of Irish flute, tin whistle, or Boehm-system flute (with keys).

What sets this extensive book apart from others on learning Irish music is that it's the first really complete guide that includes Irish flute, Boehm-system flute, and Irish tin whistle.

It also has a simple and new approach to understanding and notating ornamentation. The book also explores ornamentation techniques that don't appear in other printed sources.

The 480-page book comes with pretty much everything you could need, including fingering charts and a raft of studies for ornamentation practice. The book also includes adaptations for Boehm-system flute players, guidance on breathing and phrasing, history and theory of traditional Irish flute and whistle music, and 27 meticulous transcriptions of recordings from 1926 to 2001 by Irish flute and tin whistle players like John McKenna, Séamus Ennis, Willie Clancy, Josie McDermott, Matt Molloy, Cathal McConnell, Mary Bergin, Joanie Madden, Kevin Crawford, and Catherine McEvoy, to name but a few.

Grey Larsen is an American-born musician who had the great good luck to spend many hours with Irish musicians who emigrated to the vicinity of his home in Ohio.

This guide also comes with two CDs, which contain many tunes from the book. This is essential to a learner, who may not otherwise have music CDs with versions of the tunes used in the guide.

This guide is available at celticgrooves.com