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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...

If I find a phrase that is so long that I look like running out of air,I just break it into two or more phrases.

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...

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...

A nice looking flute and piccolo (or maybe fife?)set. Are there any maker's marks on them? Do you know what key they are in?

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...

Hi Dagmar. Put up a photo on the internet. if you can, or you could email a photo to David Migoya at fyfer restorations - he would know better than anybody. But put one up on the net, I'm curous to see it.

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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...

Hi. Why not drill a Cnat thumb hole in the back of the whistle body? It's the easiest and most accurate way to play the note and you don't have to change your fingering every time you get a new whistle - you just keep your black & decker handy. I suggest the whistle tablature might look somethin...

Hi. I'm an oldie, but I've still got lots of gruntle so here goes. Try practising new tunes to a metronome. It not only helps with the rhythm, but I find it improves the memorising of the tune.

Hey, Jessie - there's a wise old viking expression - 'Don't throw rocks at every dog that barks at you'. There's a lot of dogs out there and you'll be throwing things for the rest of your life.

The other side of it is maintaining the booming sound. Once you've got it, it is absolutely vital to keep the flute still while playing. Any movement of the mouthpiece from its optimal position will seriously affect the sound.

Well done, butterball. I'm sending them to my sister - She always sends me male bashing Jokes.

I once put a generation C fipple on a generation D body (with paper wrapping to make it fit.) It sounded great, much better than the d fipple did, but it put the upper octave out of tune. I never did find a way to fix it.

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...