{"id":1231,"date":"2008-04-30T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2019-02-16T02:33:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T02:33:51","slug":"irish-flute-from-new-zealand-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/2008\/04\/30\/irish-flute-from-new-zealand-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Flute From New Zealand Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Martin

Martin Doyle playing the Kanuka flute.<\/p><\/div>\n

Here I am in County Clare<\/a>, Ireland<\/a>, and staying with my friend Martin Doyle<\/a> for a few days. I have brought Martin three sticks of Kanuka<\/a> wood that were kindly given to me by Paul Whinray \u2013 a recorder maker who lives in West Auckland<\/a>, New Zealand<\/a>. The Kanuka wood was cut, bored and turned into round sticks by Paul in the late 1980s so it is well cured.<\/p>\n

Martin set me to work on preparing the sticks and with the kind guidance of his son \u00d3gi, and Martin doing all the critical work, we produced a wonderful flute. It has a lovely tone (milder than the hardwoods like African Blackwood<\/a> and Cocus<\/a>) that I am sure will develop nicely with playing. The end cap of the flute is made of Cocus wood. Here’s a look at it:<\/p>\n

\"Martin<\/a>

Martin Doyle Irish flute made from New Zealand kanuka wood – click the image to see a larger version.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here I am in County Clare, Ireland, and staying with my friend Martin Doyle for a few days. I have brought Martin three sticks of Kanuka wood that were kindly given to me by Paul Whinray \u2013 a recorder maker who lives in West Auckland, New Zealand. The Kanuka wood was cut, bored and turned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,9,3,131],"tags":[23,36,523,25,113,294,232,26],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flute-making","category-irish-flutes","category-martin-doyle","category-wooden-flutes","tag-flute","tag-irish","tag-kanuka","tag-martin-doyle","tag-new-zealand","tag-timber","tag-wood","tag-wooden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2642,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/2642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}