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I'm a college junior, a music major and completely bored of the music my professor is always suggesting. Also my classmates always find the neatest solos and I really feel left behind playing traditional flute repertoire. Bach, Mozart, Chaminade, Hindemeth, BLEH!!! ** Commercial link deleted ** I wa...

Hi everyone. After seeing some NAF's for sale locally I decided that they would not only make a great instrument for me to carry around for personal enjoyment but also make a great addition to my recording studio for scoring film. After some internet searching I ordered a very nice traditional looki...

Hello gang. I'm looking to add a bamboo transverse style flute to the collection and was wanting to know some of the good makers. I'm thinking either diatonic, pentatonic, and even exotic tunings (I really love the 4 hole Egyptian scale smile.gif). So far I have found George Tortorelli (Medicine Win...

Hey, Hey! I fond a new sound. Well new to me. If you cover the first three or four holes and hold a note, then take your right hand and run your fingers back and forth over the lower holes you get a special twill or roll. Do it fast enough and you sound like a woodpecker. If you're fast enough you c...