Flute Resources:

• Brad Hurley's comprehensive Wooden Flute Guide
• The Flow -- Gordon Turnbull's excellent and very informative discussion of the major styles of traditional flute playing.
• What is an Irish Flute? -- Michael Robinson's discussion of the history and development of the instrument.
• Larry Owens' Wooden Flute Website and the Woodenflute Email List
• Larry Krantz and Glenn Ross both have excellent flute websites. Both deal primarily with the Boehm-system flute, but there's a ton of information that's of interest to the rest of us. (Check out the embouchure photographs on Larry Krantz's site - very interesting!)

Irish Music Resources:

• Scoiltrad -- online Irish music lessons with master players, including Conal O'Grada.
• Ceolas
• www.celticmusic.com
• www.sessioneer.com
• Nigel Gatherer has annotations and translations for several standard tunebooks on his site, notably Ceol Rince na h�ireann.
• The Blue Ridge Irish Music School in Charlottesville, Virgina

Flutemakers and Repairers:

• Chris Abell (wooden Boehm-style flutes)
• Casey Burns
• Michael Cronnoly
• Michael Grinter
• Hammy Hamilton
• Skip Healy
• Mark Hoza
• Kara Lochridge
• Terry McGee
• Peter Noy
• George Ormiston
• Desi Seery
• Ray Sloan
• Chris Wilkes
• Patrick Olwell, who made my flute, doesn't have a website, but you can write him at P.O. Box 117, Nellysford, VA, 22958.

Flute Players (and bands they play in):

• Eoghan MacAog�in
• Michael McGoldrick
• John McKenna
• Chris Norman
• Garry Shannon and his summer school, Meitheal
• Grey Larsen
• Calluna, with Rebecca Knorr
• Danu, with Tom Doorley
• Dervish, with Liam Kelly
• Flook!, with Brian Finnegan and Sarah Allen
• Lunasa, with Kevin Crawford
• Draiocht, June McCormack; also check out her excellent tutor

Whistle links:

• Chiff and Fipple, the poststructural tinwhistle internet experience, which includes a great flute message board.
• Brother Steve's Tinwhistle Pages. One of the coolest things about this great tutorial site is the collection of transcriptions of traditional players with mp3 sound clips. Definitely check this out.
• Michael Copeland Woodwinds
• Thin Weasel whistles by Glenn Schultz
• The Michael Burke Pennywhistle Company

Musicians' Health Issues (forewarned is forearmed):

• Musicians and Injuries
• HANDS ON! Online, a "performance health newsletter for flutists."

Tune Sites:

• First stop: ABC, a machine- and human-readable music notation language. The website has instructions for using it, plus downloadable software for converting tunes in ABC to sheet music or MIDI files. You'll need to know about this to get access to the tunes in many of the online collections. There also is a handy Web-Wide ABC Index, whereby you can search for tunes. Very cool.
• Concertina.net has a nifty online utility for converting ABC notation: the ABC Convert-O-Matic.
• Henrik Norbeck
• Bernie Stocks
• JC's ABC Tune Finder
• Richard Moon's TUNEdb

Retailers:

• Celtic Grooves Imports
• The House of Musical Traditions
• Elderly Instruments
• Custy's Music Shop

Workshop Series and Summer Schools:

• The Willie Clancy Summer School (Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare)
• The Joe Mooney Summer School (Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim)
• Meitheal (Limerick City)
• The Swannanoa Gathering (Asheville, NC)
• The Augusta Heritage Center Workshops (Elkins, WV)
• Boxwood (Lunenburg, Nova Scotia)
• The Burwell Bash (Cambridgeshire, UK)

Other Good Things to Know About:

• Andrew Crawford builds beautiful wooden flute cases (and other decorative boxes).
• Nicholas Lander's Recorder Home Page has an article entitled Wood, Oil, and Water with technical information on bore oil and related subjects.
• Lar's Baroque Flute Corner features flutemaker Rod Cameron's flute care sheet, with good advice about caring for and playing-in wooden flutes.
• The Dayton C. Miller flute collection at the Library of Congress -- one of the many reasons I like living where I do.
• This article from the Boston Herald on the Boston session scene happens to have some good advice on socially responsible session behavior.
• Nanny O'Brien's is the epicenter of the DC Irish music scene.
• Irish Dancing and Music in the Washington/Baltimore Area tells you all you need to know.
• Islandireland.com is a new Internet directory to Irish art, culture and entertainment.