In the band, I play a modern silver flute, but with a wooden head. I also have a simple system flute from the 1800s, but most of the time we play without amplification, and it's just not loud enough - and it's also a real challenge to play in tune. There are now modern simple system flutes that are much louder and more in tune than the early ones, which you often hear in Irish bands. But what would be authentic for our kind of music is the one-keyed Baroque flute, which is really kind of wimpy ;->
