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Author: kfrank1
Date: 2005-11-22 01:34
Can anyone recommend a flute forum? I did a web search, but didn't find much. This is kind of surprising because I would have thought flute to be the most popular of the woodwind instruments. Thanks
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Author: ClariBone
Date: 2005-11-22 01:55
8notes.com has a flute forum... Gauging from the clarinet forum there, I wouldn't recommend it for anyone with even a marginal level of proficiency though.
Clayton
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Author: sylvangale
Date: 2005-11-22 06:40
I think the Clarinet forum here is the best of all instrument "forums" that I have come across. Active moderators that participate in the forums are an incredible asset.
Saxontheweb.net hosts a flute doubler forum which is the most active of their doubling forums, but you will not find many "classical" flutists hanging out there. It has a similar posting format as this board.
8notes.com has the most active flute "forum" around. I hang out there quite a bit, but they do have need of a moderator.
There are some good flute e-mail lists abound though:
FluteList: www.larrykrantz.com
FluteList is enormously popular and you will get hundreds of e-mails daily, but many many many flautists are active participants, professional and hobbyists.
FluteNet: groups.yahoo.com
Many of the FluteList people are here as well, but it's not as active. I like to think of it as a place for people who can't figure out how to join Larry Krantz' list, but hey many people actively post in both.
GalwayFluteChat: groups.yahoo.com
The forum of James Galway. He is often there and tells all sorts of interesting stories. He used to be on FluteList quite a bit, but now it seems moreso on his own list.
The Yahoo groups can also function as a "forum", but work better as e-mail lists.
-Piko
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Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2005-11-22 12:02
<<Mozart hated the flute. HATED, HATED, HATED the flute!>>
And . . . ?
Susan
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Author: larryb
Date: 2005-11-22 14:18
well, maybe he wrote a letter to his father in which he mentioned disliking the flute, maybe he was having a bad day...."hate" (especially in upper case letters, repeatedly) may be too harsh a word.
But we do know that he loved the clarinet and basset horn.
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2005-11-22 14:32
Really. It seems to be quite well attested that Mozart wrote to his father to this effect....
http://www.mahlerania.net/MozartFlCtoG.html
Though it has been claimed that what he hated was not the instrument in itself, but the fact that it was rarely played in tune.
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If there are so many people on this board unwilling or unable to have a civil and balanced discussion about important issues, then I shan't bother to post here any more.
To the great relief of many of you, no doubt.
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2005-11-22 22:10
Well! Flute intonation has imrpoved out of sight since his day, so his comments are now irrlevant. I'd guess that a modern, good flute is more fundamentally in tune (at a standard volume) than an equivalent clarinet .
But players... that's a different story. Some flute players play well out of tune simply because the instrument is capable of so much note bending, which the player has not controlled. There is a large difference in pitch between a loud and a soft note, UNLESS the player controls this by compensating techniques.
If a flute is out of tune, blame the player, not the flute, as you would for a violinist.
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Author: kfrank1
Date: 2005-11-22 23:10
Thanks a lot for that info.
Now I have a forum for each instrument
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Author: bawa
Date: 2005-11-23 08:29
In one of the music "encyclopaedias" that i own, with an extensive biography of Mozart and detailed comments on his flute and harp concert, it says comments that Mozart had been first to Paris as child prodigy and much feted by Parisians.
But that on his second visit as an adult (the time of the flute and harp concert) he felt that he wasn't treated with much appreciation by the Paris musical scene, I can't remember all the factors, but one of them was that German composers were "out of fashion".
Anyway, flute and harp were some of THE fashionable instruments among Parisians of the time, and hence Mozart to an intense dislike to it and the harp...however that (fortunately) didn't stop him from composing that beautiful concert when it was commisoned: a truly great composer, i suppose!!
The only other good forum for an instrument I have found (as good as this one) is for the violin at violinist.com: again to the efforts of good person similar to GBK and MC here.
Fortunately, my two children play just that: clarinet and violin, so aren't I Lucky?!!!
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Author: Markael
Date: 2005-11-23 08:51
Sylvangale wrote: "Active moderators that participate in the forums are an incredible asset."
That is true of any and all forums, not just instrumental forums.
My son participates in a forum where certain words used in a post automatically prevent the post from going through, regardless of the context. Such automatic editing has no way of monitoring the tone of posts and other subtle and not so subtle aspects of writing. People get away with things that would never be tolerated here.
As of now we are closing in on 200,000 posts on this board. What a job it must be to read all that and keep up with a bunch of clarinet players! Sort of like herding cats.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-11-23 16:38
Markael wrote:
> As of now we are closing in on 200,000 posts on this board.
> What a job it must be to read all that and keep up with a bunch
> of clarinet players! Sort of like herding cats.
Mark C and GBK - two very tired pairs of eyes ![[wink]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie3.gif) ...GBK
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