in search of unusual wind instruments, most of them wood-carved flutes. Many are Native American, others are from Europe, Asia and Africa. In Sierra Leone, he learned to play the Fula flute from members of the nomadic West African Fulani tribe. While in China, he discovered an instrument with an unusually mellow sound in a public market, and was taught to play it by local musicians. Loomis displayed a representative sample from his private collection of more than 100 of these wind instruments, demonstrating how each flute and some percussion instruments resonate to the folk music of their native origins.
Charles Millman, president of the Men's Club, chaired the event, with assistance from Jed Clauss, Aaron Novick, and Micah Kaplan, servers.

International traveler Jay Loomis of Greenport provided an unusual musical program at Congregation Tifereth Israel on Friday, July 31, following the traditional spaghetti and meatball supper by the synagogue's Men's Club. The dinner portion of the evening's festivities began at 6. The Loomis program was offered at 7, with regular Friday night Sabbath services conducted by Rabbi Myron Fenster at 7:30 pm.
Jay Loomis has traveled extensively on four continents

Jay Loomis
demonstrating two of the many flutes he brought with him