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I don't really recommend Rubank. The Melodious and Progressive Studies books are great.

I don't recommend yamahas,
because they tend to play sharp, so the head joint has to be pulled out alot to
play in tune. I highly recommend a gemeinhardt. I've played on one my whole
flute career, and absolutely love them.

I started flute when I was three, I played on a
curved headjoint. I see no problem in starting her this early. That would mean
that she would have that much more experience.

We played Eine Klein Nacht Musik when I
played in the Youth Symphony, that's a really fun piece.

yes, she did enter, she didn't even qualify.

Ok, I was first chair in all County, and first in state. I landed
second chair in my band. The first chair didn''t even make all county. Does
anyone else find this fishy?

I have that book. My favorites are 76 Trombones, America, and
Tonight.

When I play with a band or orchestra, I read the
music note by note.

I actually disagree with everyone that has
posted thus far. I began playing on an offset G flute. Then when I got a new
flute, it was inline. I prefer inline over offset. It offers a better hand
position, in my opinion. But, it's a matter of personal preference.

You're not weird, I was able to play my new open
holed off set flute without the plugs the first time too.

I play
every instrument in band, (my mom's a director) and playing another instrument
never really affected how I played the flute.

NEVER SUBMERGE A FLUTE IN WATER! I speak from
experience...

I learned flute using the Standard
of Excellence books. It's a series of three books. Also, the Practical Studies
books by Ralph Guenther are good.

In band we do a warm up called lip slurs, they call it lip slurs, because the brass instruments lip slur it. the notes are based off of the Bb scale. The notes are 1-5-1-5 8-5-8-5 1-5-8-5-1 in other words, Bb-F-Bb-F then the Bb is played up an octave down to the F. Sorry if that's hard to understand...

When I was in beginning band, we used the
Standard of Excellence theory books. They were really great for counting and
rhythms, and even had music history sections.