Poll- Flute

piccolopete · Post by **piccolopete** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:02 pm

1. I play in my highschool's marching and concert band. I also play alto sax in a jazz group. My dream is to play in a great orchestra in Boston, New York, or Chicago.

2. I play an intermediate Gemeinhardt 3SHB flute. My piccolo is an oldie, but a super goodie Gemeinhardt.. I don't know much about the model, I bought it used, but I really like the way it plays. I't's super special to me, and my favorite thing EVER. I keep my horns super clean and in a new condition!

3. Probably either a Brannen Brothers or (you guessed it) a Powell... one of the wooden ones... I love those warm wooden flutes... *sigh*

4. I'm a big fan of Jeanne Baxtresser's playing, as well as Jan Gippo's piccolo playing. I've never actually heard Mary Stolper (Chicago Symphony) but her story of being a flutist sounds alot like mine, and I can't wait to hear her play.. I go to Chicago often, so I'm trying to catch a performance...

5. I love the good ol' Stars and Stripes Forever... On piccolo of course!
I also like Badinerie by Bach. It's always neat sounding, and fun to play.. Most of our band music is silly and cheesy, though, so if I want to play something good, I have to order it form the net..

Freemanflutist07 · Post by **Freemanflutist07** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:58 pm

1) What group do you play for?(college band, marching band, for fun)
The DSF Rebel Brigade

2) What kind of flute do you play?
my student flute: Bundy
open-hole flute: sliver plated Gemeinhardt

3)What is your dream flute?
a fully gold Gemeinhardt

4)What flute players do you enjoy listening to?
I don't have any favorites, i like listening to all the ones i hear

5) What is your favorite type of music to play or favorite piece you have ever played?
Oh, Sleigh Ride, our winter concert piece for each year

angelic_devil · Post by **angelic_devil** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 4:58 am

3)What is your dream flute?
a fully gold Gemeinhardt

Gemeinhardt doesn't make any solid gold flutes. You could always get one gold plated. If you want a gold flute, I would spend your money on a gold Burkart or Powell.

fluttiegurl · Post by **fluttiegurl** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:09 pm

Actually, Gemeinhardt will make a gold flute if specially ordered. They also make gold headjoints, though I have never actually played either. I know this was at least true 10 years ago. Things may have changed.

angelic_devil · Post by **angelic_devil** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:53 pm

Really? Sorry, I never new that.

Symphony · Post by **Symphony** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:17 am

1) What group do you play for?(college band, marching band, for fun)
Cork School of Music Wind Ensemble (college)
Cork School of Music Symphony Orchestra (college)
Ballincollig Concert Band
Irish Youth Wind Ensemble (National Wind Ens in Ireland)
and I teach xD

2) What kind of flute do you play?
Yamaha solid silver 925, series III

3)What is your dream flute?
Mmm. Top notch Arista or Powell.

4)What flute players do you enjoy listening to?
Ian Clarke - Aweesome!
Jean-Paul Rampal

5) What is your favorite type of music to play or favorite piece you have ever played?
Boehm - Grand Polonaise - nothing like it!!
and the Lovreglio "Eco Di Napoli" for Picc and Piano, which I'm getting soon

flutepicc06 · Post by **flutepicc06** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:03 am

Symphony wrote: 5) What is your favorite type of music to play or favorite piece you have ever played?
Boehm - Grand Polonaise - nothing like it!!
and the Lovreglio "Eco Di Napoli" for Picc and Piano, which I'm getting soon

Hi Symphony! I just had to ask...Where did you order the Lovreglio from? I heard it performed last year, and wanted to buy it, but could never find that it had been released by any publisher. It really is a terrific piece.

nii_neko · Post by **nii_neko** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 12:38 pm

What group do you play for (Collage band, Marching band, for fun):
School band and Marching band.

What kind of flute do you play:
I play two: My begginers is a Blessing b101 Silver-Plated.
My open-hole is a Gemeinhardt-Elkhardt m3.

What is Your dream flute:
uhmmm...an open-hole yamaha???

What Flute players do you enjoy listening to:
as long as they no how to play...'bout any!

What is your favorite type of music to play or your favorite piece:
Well since im in junior high, i really dont have hard pieces...sooo I would have to say Rites of Tamburo, the Stars and Stripes Forever, and March for a Celebration.

vitani1515 · Post by **vitani1515** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:12 pm

1) What group do you play for?(college band, marching band, for fun)
Ball State University (marching, wind ensemble)
Salem Church of God Celebration Orchestra

2) What kind of flute do you play?
Gemeinhardt 3KSB
Boston Legacy Piccolo (iron wood)

3)What is your dream flute?
"Golden Age" Wm S Haynes

4)What flute players do you enjoy listening to?
galway, rampal, and many more

5) What is your favorite type of music to play or favorite piece you have ever played?

Solo- I love Poem by Griffes....i also like Mozart in D...and many many more!
Instrumental Ensembles ---->October (Eric Whitacre) I have performed many other musical works in honors bands, college ensembles and with symphony orchestras...but this one when performed RIGHT it just moves me like non other.

2cute4u · Post by **2cute4u** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:37 pm

1) What group do you play for?(college band, marching band, for fun)
Hermitage Marching Panthers!!!

2) What kind of flute do you play?
student flute; palatino (anyone know any info on theses??)
concert flute-open hole Gemeinhardt

3)What is your dream flute?
a fully gold Powell

4)What flute players do you enjoy listening to?
No favorites but i really like the band music that we play

5) What is your favorite type of music to play or favorite piece you have ever played?
Sleigh Ride, and the beauty and the beast piece we played in band last year..although the music we're getting this year is making it increasingly harder to choose!!

flutepicc06 · Post by **flutepicc06** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:52 pm

2cute4u wrote:1) What group do you play for?(college band, marching band, for fun)
Hermitage Marching Panthers!!!

I notice that you and the original poster are from the same school and have the same dream flute. I hope you don't mind me asking, but why Powell, and why gold? Anyway, welcome to Fluteland. There's tons to be learned here.

2cute4u · Post by **2cute4u** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:56 pm

flutepicc06 wrote:
2cute4u wrote:1) What group do you play for?(college band, marching band, for fun)
Hermitage Marching Panthers!!!
I notice that you and the original poster are from the same school and have the same dream flute. I hope you don't mind me asking, but why Powell, and why gold? Anyway, welcome to Fluteland. There's tons to be learned here.

yeah the origianl poster got me joined here
I hear gold plays really and i was told in band class that Powells are really good. I haven't had the oppurtunity to try it, but i hope to some day

flute.and.picc.are.love · Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:21 pm

1) What group do you play for?(college band, marching band, for fun)
Marching band and wind ensemble

2) What kind of flute do you play?
The nice one I play for concert season is an open-hole Gemeinhardt, solid silver head joint, and I believe it's a 4SP, the other one I use for marching band (if I'm not marching piccolo) is also a Gemeinhardt with a solid silver head joint but it's closed-hole and pretty old, my mom's had it since like the seventies. My picc is a metal Gemeinhardt (can you tell I like Gemeinhardt) but mine's in the shop and I'm using the school's wooden Yamaha which has a really nice tone. I used that one last year before I got my own. Wooden piccs are great for concert season, but metal ones are better for marching.

3)What is your dream flute?
Hmm I don't know...I really like mine, it's pretty new, about eleven months old, it's really nice. I'd like to try out a gold one though, but I don't think that will ever happen.

4)What flute players do you enjoy listening to?
I like Hubert Laws and Sir James Galway...I saw him live once OH MAN it was amazing...he had a gold flute it was so gorgeous. He and his wife played duets...fun stuff.

5) What is your favorite type of music to play or favorite piece you have ever played?
Hmm...that's tough...I like classical, like Mozart, but I also like some of the weird contemporary stuff. I like all the pieces we're playing right now. We're playing Overture to Candide which I love, and we're also doing a world premiere of John Mackey's Turning at our state convention in January, and it's one of those contemporary ones that's all weird and crazy, but it's totally sweet. Then again, we're playing Bach's Arioso, which is absolutely gorgeous, as well as a Mozart oboe concerto and Invictus by King. I like all of those pieces, but Invictus is really hard because of how fast it goes (164 in cut time with woodwind eighth note runs). Sorry that was probably way too much information.

mikeh · Post by **mikeh** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:28 pm

I PLAY FOR FUN AND I PLAY THS REALLY COOL FLUT E MY DAD MADE LOL

FOXOMATIC · Post by **FOXOMATIC** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 1:24 pm

1) What group do you play for?
Mostly just sit in with jazz or jazz flavored groups.

2) What kind of flute do you play?
Mostly I favor my Armstrong alto flute, but have several C-flutes. The most expensive is a 1975 Artley open hole C-flute that has problems. If I play a C, I was have a brand new $45 Bestler chrome plated flute that works well.

3)What is your dream flute?
I would really like a gold bass flute.

4)What flute players do you enjoy listening to?
My most favorite player is Sam Most. Steve Kujala and many others.

5) What is your favorite type of music to play or favorite piece you have ever played?
Jazz in general. Bossa Novas are really fun.
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