{"id":214,"date":"2013-11-10T06:08:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T06:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/?p=214"},"modified":"2025-10-28T03:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:46:44","slug":"kind-words-and-delightful-tunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/2013\/11\/10\/kind-words-and-delightful-tunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Kind Words And Delightful Tunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Included in recent additions to <a title=\"Home | Martin Doyle Flutes \u2013 simple system wooden Irish and Baroque flutes renowned for their ease of playing and quality of tone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/\">Martin Doyle Flutes<\/a> is a very kind testimonial from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cathal_McConnell\">Cathal McConnell<\/a> and two delightful tunes from <a title=\"Ronan Browne\" href=\"http:\/\/crantemp.ronanbrowne.com\/Home\/Home.html\">Ronan Browne<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Kind Words<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-221\" title=\"Martin Doyle and Cathal McConnell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/martin-doyle-cathal-mcconnell.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Doyle and Cathal McConnell\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/martin-doyle-cathal-mcconnell.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/martin-doyle-cathal-mcconnell-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>The following words are from the generous heart of Cathal McConnell:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My friend, flute maker and flute player extraordinaire, Martin Doyle made my B-flat and C flutes, both of which are a complete joy to play! On a recent visit he also gave my ageing Rudall and Rose a much-needed and thorough overhaul. Its cork had been there 150 years!!! A heartfelt thank you Martin, for your craftsmanship as well as your kindness.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More comments from flute players all over the world can be viewed here: <a title=\"Testimonials | Martin Doyle Flutes\" href=\"\/testimonials.html\">Testimonials \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Delightful Tunes<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-217\" title=\"Ronan Bowne\" src=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ronan-browne.jpg\" alt=\"Ronan Bowne\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The two tunes that Ronan Browne has offered, <a title=\"Planxty Irwin (jig) | The Session\" href=\"https:\/\/thesession.org\/tunes\/790\">Planxty Irwin<\/a> (jig) and <a title=\"Hector The Hero (waltz) | The Session\" href=\"https:\/\/thesession.org\/tunes\/1292\">Hector the Hero<\/a> (waltz), that are both being played on a Martin Doyle D flute made of <a title=\"Cocus wood \u2013 Woods Used For Making Flutes | Martin Doyle Flutes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/woods.html#cocuswood\">Cocus wood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They can be heard here: <a title=\"Ronan Browne \u2013 Flute Music | Martin Doyle Flutes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/music.html#ronanbrowne\">Ronan Browne \u2013 Flute Music \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ronan and others can also be seen playing tunes here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@martindoyleflutes7588\">Martin Doyle Flutes | YouTube<\/a>\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p><em>Our gratitude to Ronan and Cathal for their generous contributions and kind support.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Included in recent additions to Martin Doyle Flutes is a very kind testimonial from Cathal McConnell and two delightful tunes from Ronan Browne. Kind Words The following words are from the generous heart of Cathal McConnell: &#8220;My friend, flute maker and flute player extraordinaire, Martin Doyle made my B-flat and C flutes, both of which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,86,9,4,5,147,20,92],"tags":[148,149,23,36,94,151,38,152,40,150,37,153],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-friends","category-flute-players","category-irish-flutes","category-irish-traditional-music","category-martin-doyle-flutes","category-recently-added","category-testimonials","category-website","tag-cathal-mcconnell","tag-comment","tag-flute","tag-irish","tag-kind","tag-mp3","tag-music","tag-musicians","tag-ronan-browne","tag-testimonial","tag-traditional","tag-tunes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","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=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3177,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/3177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}