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- Tue Jul 08, 2003 4:49 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: The days when you can't play a note
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2871
I used to have the same problem, then I discovered that on the days I couldn't play, I was holding the flute with the embouchure hole off centre. I corrected that by winding some string around the flute on each side of the embouchure hole, enabling me to feel the correct position with my lips. Since...
- Sat Feb 08, 2003 11:12 pm
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Long phrases - Do or Don't?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3181
- Tue Dec 31, 2002 8:01 pm
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Polymer vs. blackwood
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4550
The great thing about the synthetic flutes is their durability. Wooden flutes are easily damaged and expensive to repair. I have many times seen musicians with fine wooden flutes who are so busy protecting them that they are missing out on an awful lot of fun. Particularly when they have to leave wh...
- Tue Dec 24, 2002 5:49 pm
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: A Civility Reminder, per Dale's Request
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1853
HI all. As I understand it, You can safely say anything you like about anything, so long as you state it as an opinion. If you say a particular whistle or flute is total garbage as if it was fact, you could be in trouble. If, however, you say that in your own personal opinion a particular whistle or...
- Sat Dec 07, 2002 6:04 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: my olde wooden flutes
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2576
- Sat Aug 03, 2002 10:36 pm
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Emboucher holes - different shapes & sizes
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1136
The larger size embouchure holes have the advantage that you can play both loudly and softly, whereas you can only play softly on a small embouchure hole. The oval embouchure holes on boehm flutes are easier to blow than the older elliptical holes. I think it's because the straighter blown edge make...
- Wed Jul 10, 2002 5:17 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: antique wooden flute
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1888
- Tue Jul 09, 2002 6:06 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Is there really a noticable difference between Rosewood and
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3348
I would say - no. I know many people would disagree, but I suspect that the 'differences' that people are hearing between blackwood flutes and flutes made from other materials are caused by slightly different embouchure hole shapes. The embouchure holes on most flutes are cut by hand, and even the f...
- Fri Mar 29, 2002 8:36 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Sindt/Feadóg Hybrid
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7766
- Sat Mar 16, 2002 10:34 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Newbie question re memorizing tunes...disgruntled oldtimers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2756
- Fri Mar 15, 2002 11:34 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Pastries
- Replies: 100
- Views: 16580
- Wed Mar 13, 2002 10:53 pm
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: Getting that booming sound.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6785
- Wed Mar 13, 2002 1:06 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: OT: Male Jokes - Men Only
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1518
- Sat Feb 23, 2002 6:22 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: basmati whistles
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1403
- Fri Feb 15, 2002 4:53 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Chicken or Egg in Key of D?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3581
Simple really. Most tunes in celtic music these days are played in the key of D major, and the D major scale has got two sharps in it. If it was in the key of C major, there would be no sharps or flats at all. The music was composed using the diatonic (or octave) scale. The octave scale intervals ru...