warning to you aspiring doublers....

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:53 pm

I finally found my threshold.
played saxophone pretty exclusively for a month and then
popped in late to rehearsal tonight in a band where I play flute..

ouch!...

so be warned.. it took me an hour or so to sound like my old
self again..

mark

ick27 · Post by **ick27** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:33 pm

I think not practicing flute for a month probably had a more deleterious effect on your flute playing than playing saxophone during that time did. Of course, when you have a lot of instruments to keep up, it's very hard to devote enough time to each of them.

rh_flutist · Post by **rh_flutist** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:35 pm

I am a flutist, but I also play tuba and sax. It takes a lot of practice but I'm 1st chair as a flutist, 3rd chair tuba, and 6th chair sax. I love it!!!

I'm trying to get my band director to let me play the french horn. He says to sharpen up on the sax first.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:15 am

rh_flutist wrote:I am a flutist, but I also play tuba and sax. It takes a lot of practice but I'm 1st chair as a flutist, 3rd chair tuba, and 6th chair sax. I love it!!! I'm trying to get my band director to let me play the french horn. He says to sharpen up on the sax first.

you sound like my son...

he's doing piano, clarinet, sax and flute to go along with various and
sundry folk instruments that are laying about the livingroom..

He's trying very hard to convince me to let him get a brasswind of
some kind to round things out.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:18 am

ick27 wrote:I think not practicing flute for a month probably had a more deleterious effect on your flute playing than playing saxophone during that time did. Of course, when you have a lot of instruments to keep up, it's very hard to devote enough time to each of them.

true enough.. but never was an issue in the past.. maybe I'm just
gettin old and complacent..

it is true though, that keeping your chops up on many instruments
can be time consuming in the extreme.

Natalie · Post by **Natalie** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:22 pm

rh_flutist wrote:I am a flutist, but I also play tuba and sax. It takes a lot of practice but I'm 1st chair as a flutist, 3rd chair tuba, and 6th chair sax. I love it!!! I'm trying to get my band director to let me play the french horn. He says to sharpen up on the sax first.

Play the tuba and the French horn!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_tuba

rh_flutist · Post by **rh_flutist** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 6:19 am

Natalie wrote:
rh_flutist wrote:I am a flutist, but I also play tuba and sax. It takes a lot of practice but I'm 1st chair as a flutist, 3rd chair tuba, and 6th chair sax. I love it!!! I'm trying to get my band director to let me play the french horn. He says to sharpen up on the sax first.
Play the tuba and the French horn!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_tuba

It is my goal to learn as many instruments as possible before I graduate.

finallyflute-ing · Post by **finallyflute-ing** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:13 am

My issue (as a doubling artist) has always been breath control. I just haven't practiced enough the switch from voice to flute and back to voice.

But I'm satisfied with only playing two. (And, I don't have the patience, I think, to learn any more)

Isabelle · Post by **Isabelle** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:48 pm

I'm trying to get my band director to let me play the french horn.

I got this "crazy idea" one day during rehersal that I wanted to learn to play the french horn...We have one sitting unused in the back of the bandroom...I have yet to prusuade my director to let me take it.