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by JellyJack
Fri Oct 12, 2012 3:16 pm
Forum: Flute History and Instruments
Topic: Screws
Replies: 3
Views: 2971

Screws

Hi I've got a second hand flute and after half an hour of playing I couldn't get a sound out of it despite how hard I blow. I looked at the flute and noticed some of the screws had unscrewed themselves. I screwed them back in and it sounds great again, but now they seem to unscrew themselves even fa...
by JellyJack
Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:30 pm
Forum: Flute Basics
Topic: Pieces?
Replies: 6
Views: 7885

Re: Pieces?

Hi, I bought a book called "76 studies for the flute", and then I got a free one called "50 studies for the recorder" (when I bought them online), but you can play it on the flute as well. Maybe they're a bit too easy if you're used to playing classical music, but some of them sound quite nice as sh...
by JellyJack
Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:21 pm
Forum: Flute Basics
Topic: Some theory things that confuse me
Replies: 1
Views: 4332

Some theory things that confuse me

Hi I have found a few problems while I'm learning about reading music, just wondered how everyone else learned this stuff: 1) I've trying to read some music that has triplets and normal quavers in the same bar, and I keep losing it. The rhythmic pattern looks like this (it's in 3/4): beat 1 (triplet...
by JellyJack
Mon Oct 08, 2012 1:32 pm
Forum: General "Hang-Out" Place
Topic: Hello
Replies: 1
Views: 2125

Hello

Hi, so... I just bought this flute off ebay I've always loved flute music, it's a really good sound in an orchestra, and especially in jazz music such as Joe Farrell and Herbie Mann... Suite for flute jazz trio (Bolling) is literally amazing, it's one of my favourite CDs... maybe some day if I pract...