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Cool...you've got your flute! :) Here's a downloadable fingering chart, and I think it's got a pretty good illustration of finger placement as well, so this oughta take care of your #1 and #2 questions: http://www.markshep.com/flute/Fingers.html Basic posture is the same as for Irish flute. I like ...

The title is a lie. I already play the irish flute, but I did get my first Boehm system flute today; As such, I have some questions. Of course, a lot of the normal troubles were not there. I could make a sound from the minute the thing hit my mouth. Within several minutes I could play the C major sc...

Well, it arrived today. It sounds pretty good to me. It wasn't quite as good as described, but I think it's still pretty good for a $118 Yamaha. The pads are all pretty good. I glued the loose one with some Elmers (a quick, easily reversable fix, in case something major needs to be done later). A co...

That's funny. I'm working on not using vibrato. I'm trying to learn to learn a lot of tradtional music right now, and vibrato is considered out of place, and I was doing it from the minute I picked up the flute. Breaking up is hard to do. I'm going to recomend something different, but it might not w...

Drummer_Girl wrote:cool ninjaaron... i like banjo

theobald boehm was the guy that invented the key system for the flute, instead of open holes (like a recorder..) b4 that
also put a system of keys like this to the clarinet aswell..

I had heard something about that...

ninjaaron wrote:Say, your not from Chiff&Fipple, are you? The James with the awesome flute website?

Just checked your profile.

You probably already knew all that stuff about me.

I only play simple system flutes. I just bought my first boehm, and it hasn't arrived yet. I have about four tin whistles, and I actually build Irish flutes from PVC as a source of side income. I currently have about 16 keyless flutes lying around my house (some of them have eight open holes), but m...

4) The line on the end of the rod is for this: if you take your headjoint and stick the end of the cleaning rod into it, you should be able to see the line just about exactly in the middle of the embochure hole. If it's not very well lined up, the cork on the end of your flute isn't the way it's su...

I don't actually play the boehm (classical) flute yet, I just bought mine, and it has not yet arrived. I play the Electric guitar primarily and I play the classical guitar a bit. I love to play the electric bass, but I've never owned one, so I dunno how much it counts (my p.laying is solid, but not ...

Well, here goes. -> After four months on woodwinds, I'm now building handmade Irish flutes from PVC, and sending out models for testing this week. I can play them with some degree of proficency as well. (the prior background in composition didn't hurt anything). -> I just bought my first boehm flute...

Hi all, I suppose I should introduce myself here, as it is my first post. I'm a 20 yr. old seminary student. I've been playing the guitar like a lunatic for about four years, studied compsition a bit, blah, blah, blah. About four months ago I started playing the Tin Whistle (Well, the low D whistle ...