The modern flute is a member of the woodwind family, and is typically made out of silver or wood.
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Is it possible to play a low A on a recorder
I know this is a ridiculous question, but thought I'd ask anyways since I saw an article on wikihow for a low B. http://www.ehow.com/how_5210357_play-low-recorder.html
I need a lower A than the one ...
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Is loud breath intake considered a mistake when playing wind instruments?
I attended graduation concert on Western Classical Flute. Player was breathing very loud but I've heard it only because concert hall was very small. Is loud breath intake assesed as bad technique or ...
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How important is position of fingers in flute playing
I am currently learning south indian bamboo flute of 8 hole.See this link for how it looks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venu . I am experimenting with different ways of holding the flute like
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Learning flute as a saxophone player
I've played sax for around 20 years. I recently picked up a cheap student flute from a pawn shop. Can anyone provide tips on proper embouchure? Any other tips on getting a decent sound would be ...
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Indian Bamboo Flute: Practice
I am learning a 8 hole bamboo flute. I am having difficulties in practicing it because I am getting different sounds for different lip positions. Are there any tricks or ways to get the right sound ...
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Choice of Wind Instrument for self learning
I had been playing Piano (learning on my own through youtube and books) once a while for over 2 years now and I would call myself above novice. I can't read sheet music but I have a not bad ear. ...
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Learning to trill without a trill key
I don't really like resorting to trill keys when I want to do difficult trills like C-D. For one, the pitch and quality isn't exactly the same. Also, it feels like cheating. I'm willing to use them as ...
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Play high C-D trill on flute
I have a C flute, which I recently dug out and am relearning.
I've noticed that the first trill key for C-D doesn't work as well for high C-D. There is a change in pitch and quality, much more ...
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Practice amp for a flute/piccolo
My wife is a fairly accomplished flautist who has recently taken up the piccolo. Already practicing the flute is probably affecting her hearing, and the piccolo promises to be an order of magnitude ...
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What is the pattern in this sequence of notes? [closed]
I am wondering if someone could explain the makeup of this run of notes. It is from Canzone by Barber for flute, and occurs in the fourth to last measure. The piece has a key signature of E Major. ...
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Blowing Low Notes on the Transverse Flute
I recently acquired a concert flute and started to play with it, getting used to the embouchure and properly making a sound. I reached a certain stopping point when trying to learn all by myself, ...
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Choosing the appropriate flute for my preschooler
My preschooler has pretty good embouchure on a six hole plastic flute in the key of D; unfortunately, the distance from the mouth hole to the sixth finger hole is about 17.5 inches so the finger holes ...
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Harmonizing a violin and a fife
My roommate plays violin (a concert C instrument). I play fife (a concern Ab instrument).
Fifes typically are played with music in either D or G, due to ease of hitting the notes on those scales. ...
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How do I learn proper breathing when teaching myself the flute?
I have slowly, over time, begun to teach myself the flute. I play the piano and the recorder (sort of), so learning the note positions and how to read music is not a big issue for me. The biggest ...
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Flute fingering for slurred 3rd octave: E to B flat?
This is in the Flute 1 part for Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite "Danse des Mirlitons".
(We are in D major, this excerpt cuts of the key signature!)
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Deciding how to articulate Baroque semiquavers
I'm playing a movement (from a Quantz flute concerto) in 2/4 time. There are reasonably lengthy passages of semiquavers with no slurs marked.
I appreciate I want to vary my articulation to make it ...
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Cleaning a tarnished flute
My flute is tarnished and needs to be cleaned... I was afraid if I polished it, I would break something on it. I read online that it's a bad idea to remove tarnish on a flute yourself as you can ruin ...
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Can you directly start to learn the alto flute without beginning by the C-flute?
I would like to learn a wind instrument and I am interested by the transverse flute. I have seen and heard the alto flute in concert, which is bigger and has a deeper sound.
It seems that most flute ...
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Is learning an instrument online a bad idea?
I took ballet and with ballet you gain something called muscle memory and if you learn incorrectly, it's almost impossible to ever be a great dancer (because of muscle memory.) Because of this, you ...
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Beginning to learn the transverse C-flute : with offset-G key or inline-G key?
I have a nephew, eleven years old, who wants to start learning the flute next september.
I have seen that there are flute models with two central round keys either inline with the others or slightly ...
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Software that Transposes Music?
I would love to be able to learn the flute by playing more popular music. However, all the free sheet music that I can find for a flute in the key of C is lame stuff like "Jingle Bells."
In my search ...
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How do I find a flute teacher?
I would like to learn to play the flute, but it is nearly impossible to find a flute teacher around here. I have tried the music store and they don't teach the flute there nor do they know of someone ...
