Whats your age?

[concertino]

I am 13, I've been playing for almost 5 years

[suckmykiss]

16 here, have been playing for about three years.

[drumajorchick]

I am 18 years old and have been playing for 8 years now. I love it. I will attending college to get a degree in all levels music.

[nii_neko]

My B-day was the 14, so im 13!!!WOOOPEEE!!!

[becca and her flute x x]

Im 16 and ive been playing the flute since I was six and I have been playing the piano since I was five, love it all! Hoping to go to uni and major in performance!

[rthompson_london]

I am 39. Been playing flute for approximately 15years. Started out on Cello and Guitar at 7 years old, played professionally at 14. Now I play 30% Music, and 70% Engineering for income. Presently working in Japan. I play flute more often than guitar these days. I stopped playing cello 20 years ago.

I think the Cello is a beautifiul instrument. I love that piece, in the Carnival of Animals, Le Cygne I think.

Bloody big instrument to lug about. Flute is a little more graceful I think

[rthompson_london]

Turned 36 over the weekend, began playing in 1981 (!?!). Don't even say, "Geez, I wasn't born then!". As I'm relatively well-preserved, I hear that from incredulous teens quite a lot (they usually guess 22 ). I have a music ed degree (flute & bassoon), and most of a Masters. I play in two regional orchestras and sing in two good choirs, and play chamber music with my husband ('cellist). I suspect flute/band was the sole motive for many of us to go to school, LOL.

Ha ha, music was the only thing that got me out of bed and got any passion in me fired up!

I'm 21, and started playing when i was about 14 I think. I got my grade 5 in less than a few years (ABRSM)

[liv4music]

I'm 15 and I've been playing for about 5 1/2 years

[avins]

I've been playing the flute , actually practising , for just over a month now and am practising the F major scale at the moment because I can produce that High F at last. Now , to all you youngsters here , I say , keep up the good work in music , because it keeps you young along the passage of life, I know that because Im now 56 . I remember the Great Arthur Rubenstien's answer to a question at his 80th birthday, it goes something like this: " You are a great pianist, what progress can you still look forward to?" , his answer was something like this: " music is endless , and I am still at the beginning of it..."
I played the recorder since 5 or so , but picked up the bassoon at 16 at the White Horse Military Band , as it was given to me by the band leader. I worked hard on it until I auditioned to the radio symphony orchestra in South Africa , and got a post as second Bassoon , after a couple of years , (which I now regret) , I turned to Engineering (My present occupation) but went on playing in various amateur orchestras and chamber groups.
I always envied the flutists along the the way... and I've finally jumped the wagon , and got this Mura EX beauty

[finallyflute-ing]

Um. Yeah. I'm 19, a freshman in college, and I've been playing the flute for about three weeks. Fun.

[flute.loops16]

I'm 14 and 2/3 today!! I've been playing for about three years.

[deina-kun]

Almost 18! I've been playing almost 8 years.

[rai]

hi cflutist.. I am also 50.. what a fun time of life this is actually all of the phases in life are pretty terrific... (optimist that i am heheh)

I first picked up the flute in 1975 whilst doing my BA at Latrobe University (Australia). I borrowed a sterling silver armstrong and hyperventilated by the lake... until i got a sound.. wow.. It has been 30 somthing years now and i have never stopped 'tooting'. Continued to be selftaught, have made a few cds with friends, composed a few ditties along the way etc.

Mainly my flute is an extension of my being.. playing: clears the head/gives the eyes a rest (i am a painter)/releases inner tension/expresses any feeling that one may wish to express and just generally gives one a 'lift'. Those endomorphines are wonderful.

I think this is a really valuable 'thread' that we all on at the moment because it does help, in conversation, to have some idea of where the person is 'coming from'. I really believe that age is a little bit immaterial in matters of creativity/music because, in matters of creative endeavours, whether it be music or visual arts, it is creativite ability/knowledge/skill that are important.. In those things age is no barrier. A shared interest/passion is the important thing here. An opportunity to share/learn/have fun/relate.

[kafaween]

Im 13 yrs old 'n' goin on my third yr of flute.. i started in grade 6

[MonikaFL]

I'm 30. I have my BA in Flute Performance. I started playing when I was in 6th grade, but the following year we moved overseas -- tiny school, no band -- so I didn't really play again until the spring semester of my junior year in high school. Finally got lessons when I started junior college. I had planned to major in piano, but got bit by the flute bug! Lots of hard work, and an amazing teacher, and I caught up with everyone else in my class, then went on to university, etc. Now I teach private lessons (I chose to be a performance major for that reason... I didn't want to be sidetracked by studying all the other band instruments) and I perform in chamber ensembles whenever I can. I'm very blessed that I get to do music as a full-time job.