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Well guys, I'm too old and have too many disappointments behind me to say anything like "I've cracked it", in addition to which I am genuinely and deeply aware that embouchure development is a near lifelong project. BUT, after six months of rebeginning, during which I several times was on ...

Just the topic that's on my mind! I'm what you might call an advanced beginner, or a rebeginner, or a beginning intermediate player. I'm sure you know what I mean. Embouchure has been the bane of my playing for a LOOONG time. Since I rebegan a few months ago I've got to the stage where I have a dece...

It took a long time to convince e-bay to let me sell this - due to lack of history, I had to prove who I am. So I'm taking the liberty of bumping this now that the listing is up at:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dl ... 0770873652
Hope that's not too cheeky!

This is my one post I think I'm allowed to tell you about it. I wanted to put it on ebay, but it seems I don't have enough history there to sell more than $500 in one month! But you can read about it at http://alex-wilding.com/2012/05/antique ... -for-sale/.

This is my one post I think I'm allowed to tell you about it. I wanted to put it on ebay, but it seems I don't have enough history there to sell more than $500 in one month! But you can read about it at http://alex-wilding.com/2012/05/antique ... -for-sale/.

Cynic_on
He's just trying to justify the money you are paying him by giving you "rules" you wouldn't get elsewhere.
Cynic_off
Even with cynic off, it's tosh.

Cork position is enormously important, and quite critical. Follow KK's advice!

Gosh, I don't think I've heard it called a pinky since I lived in Scotland as a child! It sounds like you have a misunderstanding. It's your pinky that has no hole to cover. The ring finger is what covers the bottom hole. On flutes with keys, the little finger can have quite a lot to do - Eb lever, ...

If the lessons are 30-40 minutes you can be very sure that each one takes * at least * an hour of Harry's time. Now although I am well aware that many of us are on tight budgets, and not everyone can put their hand in their pocket and find EUR 30 without thinking about it. But I say that to preface ...

Good points already made. Conal O'Grada illustrates the ambiguities well. An experienced listener would tell his playing from Harry Bradley's quite easily, but it is true that they have similarities that set them apart from, say, Matt Molloy (who is quite unique in any case). So what is called the &...

Memories, memories! Stupid flute dubs aside (and boy, was that stupid!) I remember seeing Canned Heat at Mother's in Erdington back in the day. This was the summer of '68, the time when they were having their deserved hit with "On the Road Again". The week before, John Mayall had been ther...

With no maker's mark at all, the shiny look, the low number of keys and the short "D" foot, if all I knew about it was the pictures I'd have thought it was something from the last decade or two (or three?). Do you have good reason to believe it is old at all, or of good quality?
Curious,
AW

Playing D instead of C# will probably not help much at all. As a fluter, you *have* to miss some notes out to breathe, so that's a real option, though it comes a bit early in the phrase. My own suggestion would be to look for another note that *harmonises* with C# and also "leads" to D. So...

http://oaim.ie/ Because you have to be a very good player to be a very good teacher, but some great players, who may also be great people, don't have a clue about how to teach. Not that there is anything wrong with some of the suggestions above, just that this one is well worth checking out too. And...

The main point has already been made: flutes do vary, but it has more to do with the player than the instrument. I was lucky enough to buy my pride-and-joy from a very well-known player with a top-flight powerful sound, who sent me an MD with a recording of himself on it at the stage when I was thin...