Listen to Flageolet Recordings

The Flageolet Site Recordings

The following recordings are accompanied by a health warning: they were recorded some time ago on a laptop microphone in far from ideal conditions. They therefore sound fairly dreadful and should not be taken as examples of what, for instance, Collinet once sounded like!

There are various ways of listening to the pieces. They can be streamed through the following XSPF Web Music Player (flash) or downloaded in MP3 or Ogg Vorbis formats:

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1. March, March, Etrick and Tevoit Dale, (as sung by) Braham. Played on a late 19th Century English Flageolet. MP3, Ogg.
2. Mayden Faire, by Thomas Greeting, from the Pleasant Companion. Played on an early 19th Century French Flageolet. MP3, Ogg.
3. Complainte de Clara Wendel, by Jules Gard. Played on an early 19th Century French Flageolet. MP3, Ogg.
4. Moderato, by Bernard Lee, from ‘A Choice Collection of 20 Airs’ by Bernard Lee. Played on a modern replica Double Flageolet. MP3, Ogg.

Other Recordings

Better recordings than those above are available on YouTube. They include these two samples of Double Flageolet playing by Mickie and Elizabeth Zekley of Celtic Wedding Music. The first is a short sample of Mickie’s solo Double Flageolet playing; the second is a sea-shanty Rolling Down To Old Maui. Both were originally recorded in 1991.

Double Flageolet Sample

Rolling Down To Old Maui