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Teacher states that for flute it is best to apply to at least 10 colleges. For those of you that have been down this road or are heading there soon, please share the numbers and anything related to the "adventure" that may be helpful to us or others. 10 sounds pretty overwhelming. We did five or six...

The solid silver Brannen is an excellent flute, however with her hj (it's a silver Nagahara with gold lip and plat riser) it just was not a good match for her. It may have worked well for her coach, we just don't know. Requirement #1 for us was that the marriage of the head we bought a while ago to ...

We just went through the process to upgrade the body for my D's flute. As mentioned bringing several in is the best way to accomplish this, especially if you already have a headjoint you are happy with. We tested other heads as well just to compare and contrast. We are choosing the 15/85 Brannen bod...

Thank you for your thoughts and advice flutiegurl. The time you took to respond is greatly appreciated. I'm glad that I asked the question and started this thread.

I hope others can benefit from this information too.

Thanks for all the information. The next questions we would appreciate an opinion on are: How to address all the potential teachers that my d would like to make contact with at the NFA (i.e. Should all individuals be addressed as Dear Professor Jones, or Ms / Mr Jones) I realize this could be seen a...

Greetings We are considering purchasing a new (or another better used) flute body for our daughter. Given what she plays on now (very good hj and old well maintained Muramatsu body) and what we are looking at, we expect the price to be between 12 - 18K As we bring these flutes in for trial, the diff...

For what it is worth my daughter plays on a Muramatsu AD (much like the DS of today). We upgraded the HJ last year and looked at about 20 or so. In the end it was Mancke vs Nagahara. The Nagahara was purchased (silver, gold lip and platinum riser). Worth every dime as it was a great match for the Mu...

Thank you very much for your insight. This is exactly what we needed to understand.
Regards

First - best of luck to you! Hopefully you are near a point where you are choosing the college that you will attend in the fall. My older daughter is in her third year as a music ed major and when she auditioned was accepted only to two schools for the music ed program due to auditions that went poo...

Greetings all. I will be taking my daughter to the NFA Convention this year in Charlotte NC. I would appreciate any advice as to how to make best use of the time you have while at the convention. She will be a high school junior in the fall, and intends to major in flute performance in college. Asid...