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Hello, A month ago, I visited Mr. Jean-Michel Veillon in Britanny. Although I had met him even last summer for the first time, he was very kind to let me play some of his flutes. I was really astonished not only by the sounds, but also craftsmanship, the weight (his 8 keyed Wilkes flute is much ligh...

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But I have not been there yet...

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Why not to ask some flute teacher qui has some flutes?
Or at the sessions...

I am curious about Veillon and his love affair with the Indian bansuri which is a large tone hole instrument. Chas? He is using several flutes like wilkies, lehart etc and I know that he is using Harsh Wardhan's bansuri (cf. "Beo!" ). Harsh has several workshops in France, Belgium and he ...

I see his fingers are boucing a litttle, very little One thing to try is, if you can stop the frames while you are watching and see it very very slowly. Then, you have to try to make your fingers copy what you see. Keep trying. There are some excellent articles for download at Grey Larson's website...

Tchie -- your friend mentioning the big fingers thing could be on a very helpful track. I tend toward a piper's grip, esp. with my right hand, and it's a LOT easier to bounce when my fingers are a little bit straighter. Well, in any case, it is quite hard to play with my small hand... When I got my...

A tip is to think "reverse". When you should do a tap you can think that you pull the finger from the flute when it´s actually not yet touching it. If your mind tells the finger to do that your body (hopefully) reacts with a very tight tap. The reversed procedure is working for the cut (f...

chas wrote:Oops! I think I just figured out that this ornament wasn't what I had thought.

For the metal flute (for classic music), it exists "key bounce", however I do not know if it is the some thing...

It's almost paradoxical: as noted, relaxation is mandatory--fact is, speed and accuracy are always improved by relaxation anytime fingering is concerned. In the middle of all that relaxation, you have to bring a finger down hard on the flute with a really solid, percussive THWACK! and immediate rel...

>After living and breathing rolls for something like six months, my first finger-bounce just fell out at the end of a G roll one day. (Since then, of course, I've spent another half-year of first being addicted to bounces, then trying to control them -- and finally, here I am today, *still* working ...

"Be the flute...just relax and....be...the...flute. Be the flute, come on, relax and be the flute. You're not being the flute." "It's hard to be the flute with you talking like that." "Oh, sorry." Eddie[/quote] I wonder if some sort of self-hypnotic may useful... :lol:

Relaxation is the only way. You might try mediation or some Chi Kung. this will help you put your mind in the music and take tension out of your fingers. Just what you wanted to hear, I know. mmm... I had experienced something like Sho-Do, Kyu-DO etc (Japanese staffs) but when I play the flute, it ...

Hello, I have been studing the flute by Seamus Eagan's flute tutorial CD... My problem is not only trying to understand his way of ornamentations which are not on the scores, but also discovering this "finger bounce" technique... I tried and tried and tried :x , as it is mentionned with &q...

Tchie, just to follow up earlier points, whichever key the flute is pitched I always use the same fingering. There's a nice example of Bb and Eb dueting on "The Kilarney Boys of Pleasure" on one of the cran CDs with Desi & Ronan swapping between keys to give a magical combination of t...

The Jean-Michel Veillon track on the WFO disc 2 is my favorite among the compilation. I would love to get more flute music from France's best. Will someone offer up a short list of recomendations from Tchie's list above? I'm on a budget, and have nothing from these artists in my collection today. S...

Thank you very much indeed Doc and Kenr!! (I thought the question I asked was too silly to get reply...) >A D flute can only play in the keys of D and G and their related keys. I realised this through looking for some tunes by woodenflute.com, for exactly same partition, I observed that the key was ...