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Mid-South Flute

Handout from Mid-South Flute 2010 lecture: Folk, ethnic, and period flutes for fun and profit

July 13, 2017March 20, 2010 by Bret Pimentel

Here is the handout from today’s presentation at the Mid-South Flute Festival at the University of Memphis campus. The audience was small but enthusiastic, asked good questions, and some of them stayed extra long to try out some instruments from my collection.

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