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Well, I reckon you are entitled to that notion if you wish to hold to it. The rest of us will keep doubling. :) Personally, I find that the instruments tend to feed into each other to make the music flow, no matter what the instrumentation. example: I use flute to feed saxophone when I'm on the road...

Thanks y'all for saving me the typing. :) ( I'm a doubler myself) Now as to the original question, I would say it is extremely helpful to learn your way around the piano. I play most anything with a reed attached, to go along with various iterations of flute, but there has always been a foundation i...

YAY!!!!!

stay out of the car with it; at least in the upper range. :) Yes, I went through a period where the only practice time I had was at red lights and traffic jams.. (gotta love Dallas traffic :) ) A long time ago, I saw a recommendation on muting the flute, but I have not tried it myself. It was an Iri...

Phineas wrote:That is too bad Mark, I was looking forward to hearing my Taiwan friends telling me how bad you were...lol

Oh well maybe next time!

Phineas

And I was looking forward to meeting them.

That is too bad indeed Phineas.

Especially since it is looking like my trip to Asia is going to fall through.

You might look at North Texas, it seems that they have a minor in Japanese available. :) http://www.forl.unt.edu/languages/japanese/ Flute.. looks like a full house.. http://www.music.unt.edu/departments/03instrumental.shtml The only one I know anything about it Mary Karen Clardy, who is apparently ...

ouch
I'm glad you found another flute to play though.

Hiya SK...

mark

Personally, I like dealing with smaller, locally owned businesses. I play test for two, and even before I made this connection, I had nothing but great service. The biggest key is that they are willing to allow my students to try several flutes at a time in their own homes and they have specialists...

that happens on many forums..
some are real, some are probably spam bots.

Very nice...

could be a few different things here, ma'am. up to and including the flute itself not being a good match. I know that for me.. my son's Pearl is a better fit than the flutes I usually use. That is being rivaled though by a gold Yamaha head joint that a friend of mine is letting me borrow for a while...

Okay, it's easier with a smaller bore for G. :) to get the upper register in tune on a cylindrical simple flute, you have a three options. 1. ignore it and bend the pitch up to where it needs to be. 2. use a Faredo wedge 3. use a varient of a Sander's spike. the easiest way I have seen thus far for ...