<td width="100%" valign="top"><font face="Arial, Helvetica" color="#000000"><div name='messagebody'><table><tr><td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" width=1> </td><td width=5> </td><td> Possibly a silly question, but, aside from the arguable example of
<br> Robert Dick, are there any free players around who stick exclusively
<br> to the flute? Not someone like Braxton who sometimes plays flute and
<br> sometimes plays free, but...the Derek Bailey of the flute.
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<br> Brian Olewnick
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<br>Not a Derek Bailey but I have to mention Michael Heupel, a member of the Cologne Loft Scene. He plays the whole flute family from piccolo to subcontrabassflute (according to the lines notes on his solo cd 'Flute News' from 1989 he is the only one who has such a flute in the whole world). In the early eighties he played with the band BOURY. He┤s not well known but he does very interesting flute explorations in different moods.
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<br>I think before his premature death Thomas Chapin was the most amazing flute player though he didn┤t use it as his major instrument.
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<br>Andreas Dietz
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