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i have two cats. one hates it and the other one is ok with it. lol.

don't buy it over the Internet!!!! If you are spending so much money, you have to be sure to get a great flute!!! Buying a beginner flute is one thing but, a professional is something else. really.

i absolutely agree. i can't believe someone even starts learning flute over the internet. I can assure you, you will never become big. You need a real teacher.

of course. when u play with a piano, you don't use a tuner! but we also tune 442 in orchestra. maybe in Europe is different.

if a practice with a tuner, i set it on 442 Hz because most of the pianos are 442.

well, maybe your not in "good shape". Playing an instrument is like playing a sport. And if your tired you start making mistakes. That's normal. Try to play it very slowly and than increase the tempo very slowly. It will help. When your doing mistakes is also very helpful to take a small brake, to i...

In Slovenia there's is the same stereotype. Flutists are mostly women.
I know two male flutist and they are both a sensitive type of men. probably it's just a coincidence.

female. There's only one boy that plays flute in my school. And about 7 girls.

ok. thanks.

i didn't express well...i said that u can breath in thru your nose when u need to make a big breath in a short time. You might be doing it without knowing it. And sometimes it happens that u have to much air and u can breath it out thru your nose while playing.

ok. i understand now. so u have this kind of schools there too. Ours get money from the country and they are really cheap. This is the reason why here most of the people at the same age are on the same level (it depends how much u practice and how much talent u have). We start playing flute at the a...

coughing is defenetly not good. Flute usually helps cure some lung disease. Like asthma, or at least makes it a bit better. Breathing is very important, because flute needs the most air of all instruments although it doesn't seem like. Flute is the only instrumnet where half of the air u blow isn't ...

what's a music ed major?

i'm very curious because I'm from Europe and I noticed that you (American flutist) are on very different levels at the same age. Where do most of you learn flute? Don't you have elementary music schools? You learn an instrument in high school? Who prepares you to go to college, a private teacher? Th...

i guess u have a different experience than me and most of my flute friends.