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Hey everyone:) I'm currently serving my third year as flute section leader in my high school's marching band. In past years we've had issues in our section dealing with horn angles, tuning, and keeping hips/the flute parallel to the sideline, but it all came together in the end (minus the intonation...

I personally have the Di Zhao 500 and I love it. The mechanism isn't too springy and the cut of the head joint allows me to make my tone rather rich and deep. I know when I was researching flutes last year when I bought my Di Zhao 500 I looked at videos on youtube that did flute reviews sponsored by...

I was in a similar situation last year, I was using a Bundy flute (don't remember which model) that I had been playing on for around seven years that I sent annually to the shop for cleaning and realignment. After seven years the plating was disgusting despite getting it cleaned and taking good care...

I was in my local music store trying out some intermediate flutes because I am in the process of upgrading from my student flute that I've owned for a number of years. While I was trying out models like the Pearl 665 and Yamaha 362, the assistant highly recommended a Giardinelli GFL-10 by Haynes to ...