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I'm no expert, but that could be as simple as tightening a screw. Do you know any experienced flute players who can tell you what's wrong with it for sure?

Try playing a silver or silver plated flute and see if it makes a difference. It might, but try it out first in case it doesn't work.

I don't see what the big deal is about double/triple-tounging. I can single-tongue any fast passage I've ever been faced with. To be honest I think it hinders your sound when you use it. I see no need to practice it. When well practiced you can hardly tell the player is using the k sound at all, th...

Once you are used to it you can decide when it's appropriate. Remember there are other ways of playing Bb too.

Just do some F scales and stuff with the alternate, also use it when playing any music and not just where your teacher told you to use it. Unless it's an inconveniance to the upcoming fingerings I would use it as often as possible. Soon you'll get very used to it.

just high A natural??? try playing ALL octaves on a piccolo! (at least all that it allows...) i recently heard that if u play long enough you can lose partially hearing in your right ear...so ear plugs and cotton balls are good things!!! :D Where did you hear that? I sometimes lose hearing in my le...

I took Jazz improv at band camp, but I felt really uncomfortable there. I was the only flute and the only girl. It was a pretty stressful class becuase there were so many loud people crammed into a little shack. I still like jazz flute, I'm just not an improviser.

Yeah it is avoidable. I don't really know what to tell you, I haven't really had that problem unless it was my flute or the wrong fingering. I guess you could just try making your embouchure a little bigger. You might be trying a to squeeze the notes out that way so just open it up and make the air ...

I just want to ask people to not make threads with titles like "???" or "I have a question!" It's not a really bad thing I just want to know what the thread is about in case I am interested or not, say if is about a brand of flute that I've never used or a technique that I can't help you with I don'...

Yes.

It could be a problem with your flute. Try playing a different one and see if you have the same problem.

Then I started in grade seven I was being taught by a grade 10. I went to her one day to ask her what the tr on my music was, and she said it was a trill, from F to G. I asked how you trill from F to G and she said "Very easily?". Very helpful. She soon realised I didn't know what a trill was and sh...

If you're having trouble going from D to E natural it's probably because you're not used to raising one finger without the others. Next time you're in some class or somehting that is boring you put your hand on the desk and lift one finger and leave the rest down. Do this with each finger untill you...

Clearly, everyone here is Christian or Jewish.
But have a good uh, time anyway everyone.
hurray!

For A) you might want to try just not using your right hand. Just lift your ring finger on the left hand to get the E. For B) just use the trill key that's between your first and second finger on your right hand.Neither of these will really sound as good as the traditional fingering, but they're use...