A treat for your giggle box

[shortandsilly]

Things Flautists Do To Relieve Stress


1. Push in or pull out so much that your flute is either a semitone sharp or flat. Then go around blaming everyone-else for being out of tune!

2. If you have an open-hole flute, have a go at playing, partially covering the holes.

3. Finger middle C and try to get the highest C to sound.

4. Try to figure out a trill fingering for the highest C to D (or any high notes for that matter!).

5. Laugh at violinists (or just anyone who doesn't have the good fortune to be a flautist!).

6. Blow through your flute with all the holes closed, and pretend you are Darth Vader.

7. Turn off all the lights except one. Then close one eye and look into your flute with the other and then open and close the keys. It looks really cooel!

8. Show off your ability to play bottles (After you've drunk them - of course!).

9. Stand on a street corner, show off your ability to play bottles, and ask for money. (You need to drink a lot of bottles for this one!)

10. Every time you come across a note you don't like - say so!

11. Listen to a recording of a professional flautist and listen for mistakes - then tell everyone about it!

12. Play the Hindemith Sonata backwards. (This probably won't make much difference to the way it sounds!)

13. Come in early at ensemble rehearsals (on purpose!) and laugh at the people who followed you!

14. Count your rests out loud during a solo.

15. Whenever someone calls you a 'flutist', correct them and say you’re a 'flautist'. Then, when they call you a 'flautist', say the correct term is 'flutist'. (You can really have some fun with this one!)

16. Finger low D on a piccolo, and cover the whole on the end with your pinky. Then suck all the air out. Take all your fingers off - except your pinky. Wow! The keys stay down. (Okay, so now you're stuck with a piccolo attached to your tongue. Press the G# key to open the vacuum.)

17. Put a jellybean into your flute. Close all the keys and BLOW!

[fluteguy18]

Things Flautists Do To Relieve Stress

12. Play the Hindemith Sonata backwards. (This probably won't make much difference to the way it sounds!)

14. Count your rests out loud during a solo.

16. Finger low D on a piccolo, and cover the whole on the end with your pinky. Then suck all the air out. Take all your fingers off - except your pinky. Wow! The keys stay down. (Okay, so now you're stuck with a piccolo attached to your tongue. Press the G# key to open the vacuum.)

17. Put a jellybean into your flute. Close all the keys and BLOW!

those in particular really made me laugh.... what a relief from a particularly stressful day.

[shortandsilly]

Things Flautists Do To Relieve Stress

12. Play the Hindemith Sonata backwards. (This probably won't make much difference to the way it sounds!)

14. Count your rests out loud during a solo.

16. Finger low D on a piccolo, and cover the whole on the end with your pinky. Then suck all the air out. Take all your fingers off - except your pinky. Wow! The keys stay down. (Okay, so now you're stuck with a piccolo attached to your tongue. Press the G# key to open the vacuum.)

17. Put a jellybean into your flute. Close all the keys and BLOW!

those in particular really made me laugh.... what a relief from a particularly stressful day.

well i am srry you had a stressful day but very glad to take a load off. number 16 really really made me laugh as well(: i hope your day gets better.

[Phineas]

12. Play the Hindemith Sonata backwards. (This probably won't make much difference to the way it sounds!)

Try huming at the same time, and tell them you got that lick off of a JethroTull Record!

18. Flutter tongue with the percussionist.(This always gets a rise!)

19. One count before the everyone starts playing, Benny hill slap the person in front of you, then blame it on the person sitting next to you.

20. Swing all of your eigth notes on a a Bach tune, tell the director your heard he was the father of Jazz.

Phineas

[fluteguy18]

In marching band, when the piccolos would tune in our sectionals, I was always used as the person to tune to. I would sometimes have fun by flutter toungueing, or bending my pitch flat...... they dont let me tune anymore....

[apleasuretoburn]

Number 8 makes a great party trick. It's always hilarious.

[shortandsilly]

12. Play the Hindemith Sonata backwards. (This probably won't make much difference to the way it sounds!)

Try huming at the same time, and tell them you got that lick off of a JethroTull Record!

18. Flutter tongue with the percussionist.(This always gets a rise!)

19. One count before the everyone starts playing, Benny hill slap the person in front of you, then blame it on the person sitting next to you.

20. Swing all of your eigth notes on a a Bach tune, tell the director your heard he was the father of Jazz.

Phineas

ha ha number twenty made me laugh a lot..and number 19 sounds like something i would do..shh don't tell!

In marching band, when the piccolos would tune in our sectionals, I was always used as the person to tune to. I would sometimes have fun by flutter toungueing, or bending my pitch flat...... they dont let me tune anymore....

ha ha

Number 8 makes a great party trick. It's always hilarious.

lol i will remember that:p

[liv4music]

haha those are awosme!

[Claiken]

"Show off your ability to play bottles (After you've drunk them - of course!). "

you would not BELIEVE how many poeple cant do this!!! Ive tried to teach a couple people just beginning on the flute, and that is always the 1st thing I ask! I could do that before even touching a flute - so i always just assume anyone can!

[shortandsilly]

"Show off your ability to play bottles (After you've drunk them - of course!). "

you would not BELIEVE how many poeple cant do this!!! Ive tried to teach a couple people just beginning on the flute, and that is always the 1st thing I ask! I could do that before even touching a flute - so i always just assume anyone can!

lol yeah, i am not going to lie--the first time i tried this, it didn't make more than an air noise..i was kind of embarrassed that i couldn't do it but i got it on the third try lol.. my friend robert who plays sax got it on the first try though.. :/

[Natalie]

This one can probably only be done by brass players. What I do is blow into the hole like it was a mouthpiece for a brass instrument. You can actually play notes and songs, though I think the whole flute is one semitone above when you play like this.

[remnantpark]

Yeah...I can't play bottles...

My cousin who plays sax and my younger cousin who plays trumpet can both do it...

[Natalie]

The embouchoure needed for playing bottles is pretty much the same for flute. I think.

[flutepicc06]

The embouchoure needed for playing bottles is pretty much the same for flute. I think.

It's similar, but not quite the same. Playing bottles and playing flute aren't connected, in any case. It used to be (and this may still hold true for some) that some band directors thought you needed to be able to whistle to play the flute. Clearly that's not true, but they sure believed it!

[remnantpark]

The embouchoure needed for playing bottles is pretty much the same for flute. I think.

Really? I try blowing across the hole as if I'm playing the flute but that doesn't work.