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Opinions on learning transverse flute?
Topic Started: Apr 25 2018, 03:28 AM (483 Views)
Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
Just to throw in something totally off the wall...When selecting instruments, go for the french horn. The french horn players receive the largest college talent scholarships for non-majors.
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Klaus
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HOLY CARP!!!
P*D, thanks, that confirms my suspicion that this is not yet the right time for her to start transversal flute (also, at that age, the instruments she likes or not can change very quickly). That said, this week she was in a concert of "Peter and the Wolf" and was quite excited about the "bird" (which is in fact played by a flute). Oh, and the video is lovely ;)

Qaanaaq-Liaaq: Over here, the schools do offer a few instrument classes, but if you want to learn an instrument properly you have to take private lessons
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Klaus
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HOLY CARP!!!
Jolly
Apr 26 2018, 11:39 AM
Just to throw in something totally off the wall...When selecting instruments, go for the french horn. The french horn players receive the largest college talent scholarships for non-majors.
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Piano*Dad
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In public schools, you don’t always get what you want when selecting a musical instrument.


But if you already come in playing the instrument, you're quite likely to keep it.

Band starts in fifth grade in my neck of the woods. My youngest came in having played the flute for two years. The music teacher relied on him. The last thing she wanted to do was put him on baritone or trumpet. She had a musician already, and milked that.
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jon-nyc
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Cheers
I think your son was just a player. He knew at a young age that the flute section would be mostly chicks and he wanted to get in on that action.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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jon-nyc
Apr 26 2018, 01:03 PM
I think your son was just a player. He knew at a young age that the flute section would be mostly chicks and he wanted to get in on that action.
:lol2:


That sounds a lot better than "large guy, small instrument."

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Copper
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Klaus
Apr 26 2018, 11:51 AM

the instruments she likes or not can change very quickly

My daughter started with flute, that lasted a couple years.

Then it had to be the violin, that lasted a couple years.

Then for high school it had to be the drum line.

Then in senior year she stayed with drum line for marching and added the saxophone with the stage band.

Now she is a nurse, a fairly standard progression.

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