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Hi, so my brother got me this really cheap bamboo flute. It is made from a piece of bamboo with holes and then you stick a piece of wood that has a hole in the bamboo and you blow through the piece of wood. I added photos anyway- http://i50.tinypic.com/dcq96q.jpg http://i46.tinypic.com/24lmwb9.jpg I...

Thank you for your responses! I feel more calm now, and hopefully my teacher will calm me too
And I don't usually use the excuse that english isn't my first language! But when it comes to music and playing I have more trouble, as in everything that I don't hear people talking about in english

Hello everyone, I've been playing flute for less than a year. I guess I have what you call teardrop lips so I read online that this might mean that it's normal that my embouchure isn't really centered (?). I have no idea how to explain this (english isn't my first language^^), so please take a look ...

Thanks for responding. I had no idea you weren't supposed to blow harder to do harmonics!
I will talk to my teacher about it, thanks again.

Hi, I've been playing flute for around 9 months now and I knew about harmonics but never really practiced them. Yesterday before my flute lesson I decided to try it out and I did, and I felt like it was making me change my embouchure and the speed of the air steam so I thought that was a good thing!...