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hiya i had the same thing as you when i reached grade 6 standard, i had a beginners flute (a blessing b101) which wuz new when i started learning but after 6yrs it had definitly seen better days. i got really lucky though because someone gave me a yamaha 211 (it wuz about a year old but had barely b...

in my gcse year i only took part in 1 county ensemble (an orchestra) even though i had got a place in the windband as well but during the past 2 years when i've been doing my a/s levels and a levels i've been in both an orchestra and a windband (one at the weekend and 1 on a tuesday, same as you!) a...

im not sure bout this but i think my friend subscribes
to flutewise, i jus looked it up on the net and its a british magazine so there
shouldnt b any postage issues lol i hope that helps [:)]

im sittin nxt 2 sum1 with a sankyo flute at the moment
(i've got a yamaha lol) and i asked her wot she thought and she said "its ok"
lol i think if i'd spent 2000 pounds on a flute i'd want it 2 b a little bit
better than ok bt she says she loves it [:)]

yup, i think if you log in and then click on "my
profile", it should come up with them then [:)]

hiya! ok, so am i the only person who didnt realise you could send those to ppl here?! i was totally horrified to find this out yesterday, not cuz its a bad thing but bcuz sum ppl had sent me messages bak as far as november and i never knew!!! and the page wont let me reply so to the ppl who sent me...

and i thought i played a lot of
instruments! lol i've played the flute for...umm...8yrs, oboe for 4, cor
anglais for 2 and a bit, piano for 12yrs, and double bass for almost a year, and
i love them all! [:)]

hiya, im asthmatic and i've been playin the flute for about 7yrs...i've got 2 say though i dont usually find playin the flute makes my asthma bad, although if im a already bad playin the flute can make it worse...the only time i've had a real problem with asthma and my flute playin is wen i got a ch...

what exactly do u mean by a band? im british lol, and i play in a windband...is that the same thing? they r both good but i do prefer payin in an orchestra, just because of the wider variety of music that orchestras can play. i should point out though that i am kinda lookin at this from a slightly d...

in my orchestra we play loads of film music,
when we went on tour we played the music from jurassic park, and the year b4 we
played et and indiana jones, at the moment we are playin soirees musicales,
prokofievs romeo and juliet and some of the music from carmen, but i prefer film
music, lol [:)]

eisteddfod's are a welsh thing, a kind of competition,
around st davids day (the patron saint of Wales - March 1st) most schools will
hold one, and there are national ones too, hope that helps! [:)]

hiya! im katherine and i live in the uk. i've played the flute since i wuz 9 (im 18 nxt week!) and the oboe since i wuz 14...i also play the piano a bit but mostly so i can get in2 do the uni course i want. im doing my grade 8 flute in april...for that exam im playin syrinx, the 3rd movement of the ...

i dont think playin the oboe will hurt ur flute playing, i've played the flute for 8yrs and took up the oboe 3yrs ago, and i still play them both. in fact half the oboes in my band came to the oboe from the flute, and the others from the clarinet. sum ppl say they find it difficult to put one down a...