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How wonderful for you! It is a smart step that you are working with a teacher on your music. I am sure your audience will enjoy your music a great deal. After all, you were invited to play, no? This already says a lot! Best wishes and good luck to you.

What pieces will you be performing?

How hard should the flute press against the lower lip? If it presses too hard can this effect playing? Just enough for you to feel secure, but aiming for a relaxed holding posture. With too much tension, you can lose flexibility in control and available tone colours. But relaxation can be overdone ...

Bonjour! :wink: Je le comprend exactement. And YAY! another HARPIST! That makes 4 of us I believe: fluteguy [me, or also known as Adam] MonikaFL Briolette and you Camillelucia YAY! Sorry.... I get excited when I find other harpists. Besides those here on the board, I only know three in my area so i...

What great advice fluteguy has given you! :idea: You are obviously motivated to work hard for this goal. It often helps to have a plan, with the audition date in mind. Your audition is in September. Count the weeks until your audition date, and have mini-goals for each week. So, if you have an audit...

thank you!

Wonderful cheese, I very much enjoyed visiting your link!

pied_piper wrote:My signature says it all...

How so? Is it the weight? Normally, when playing F# [any octave] you have the "g" key depressed which negates the function of the split e mech. I have one, and it doesnt bother my f# at all. For me as well, I have a split E mechanism with no problems on any of the F #. It does seem to be a matter o...

What a difficult position to be in, Arion. You received very solid advice here, I hope your discussion goes well.

It is pefectly fine to take on students while you are still learning. In fact, we are all constantly learning. For me, I hope that never ends. The key is to not allow yourself to take on more than you can handle and do not be afraid to ask for help if you need it. This is a good point, we ARE all c...

easy typo to make the Die Schon Mullerin/Trockne Blumen variations are a great suggestion, love that work