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Currently own:
Casey Burns small-handed Folk Flute.
Gemeinhardt open-holed, M3 with solid silver head and silver-plated nickel eslewhere, C-foot.
Sweetheart "Cloos" Reproduction military fife in Bb in rosewood.

No dream flute yet.

If you are seriously considering the low whistle, throw in a high whistle too. No reason not to have both. You can stow a high whistle in your purse and practice it whenever you have a spare moment. And you don't have to worry about ruining it because you could always get another. Don't agonize too ...

That's not what I meant. From the photos of his albums it appeared he played Japanese music. I would think that playing Japanese music with a South American flute would be unusual. But maybe since I'm Santa Barbaran I'll start playing the Beach Boys with my Irish flute.

Love that polka, cocusflute. I swear world peace would be close at hand were there more polkas being played!

I have an acorn which I guess is made by oak. Maybe it's the cheaper cousin, but I like it and it doesn't leave me wanting a better whistle.

I mostly play with my eyes open but my eyes turned off.

I just bought a Sweetone. Can anybody tell me if it is pronounced Sweet Tone or Sweet One?

It's cute and red. I like the breathiness. It's quieter than my acorn, but the notes are bendy. Maybe it's the paint making the edges of the finger holes not as sharp as I'm used to?

pancelticpiper wrote:If you want to tongue everything, play the recorder or Boehm flute.

More accurately, if you want to tongue everything, play classical music. You can articulate with cuts, taps and rolls on a recorder or a boehm flute. It's not about the instrument.

There are at least 2 earthquakes each day in Santa Barbara, which is only 200 miles away from San Diego. I never feel any of them. I only feel the ones that are further away, and those only happen every 10 years or so. As for the shorts, you'll know you've acclimated when it's too cold for shorts in...

A guy I play with puts a little piece of thick paper at the end of his whistle, affixed with a rubber band. It extends about a quarter of an inch. He says that helps it get in tune on hot days when it seem to play a bit sharp. Might try that first since it's not like invasive surgery or anything.

And I suppose I should listen to a bunch of guys on the Internet and ignore the people in the real session who tell me to just play and do the best I can? I listened to you guys for 2 months and nobody ever said more than a few words to me. But last night, playing as horribly as I do, with a flute t...

Yes, I am a newbie. But I've read all the mean and nasty postings about people like me or worse than me on this forum and on thesession.org and with the fear of all that inspired in me, took a VERY meek attitude to my own session. Much to my surprise, they did not treat me like that, they kept telli...

Lee, come to our session and bring your Gemeinhardt. We had a tap dancer tonight and people were fine with that. They are fine with me noodling away at a respectable distance. So far I have seen none of the snobbishness you read about on Internet forums.

I put rocks in my vegetarian stews, but only the ones made out of sodium chloride. Fortunately my local supermarket sells the stuff. ..... yes, inorganic salt is a type of dirt that I do not add to my food Remember Professor Yudkin's tome about refined sugar entitled, "Pure, White and Deadly&q...

The Quena is from the South American Andes. You may be able to find them online. If you do, jacaranda is probably the best wood they are made out of.

I kind of doubt that a Japanese flute player would play an Andean flute, though.