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Flute embouchure packet... Gorden (NZ)...

Author: Margaret
Date: 2008-09-29 01:44

Hello,

I was scrolling through the clarinet and doublers bb archives looking for anything that might help me with my fife, and I came across this post:

<<There is almost nothing that they have in common.

A couple of years ago a sax player regular on a sax forum started asking me questions about flute playing. To cut a long story short, we corresponded for about a year, in what amounted to flute lessons by email, without me ever having heard him. at the end of this time he had become proficient enough on flute to very much impress two newly-acquired, real-live teachers at his great progress over one year, even though they did not know his teacher had never heard him play.

I edited this correspondence a little and put it all together in an email form that is about 190 KB long. If anybody is interested in being sent this, they are welcome. Its form is still clumsy, and I do not intend spending time editing it further. Much of it is specific to the problems of a sax player expanding to flute, and therefore quite applicable to a clarinet player going to flute.>>

If you are still willing, could you please e-mail me this document too. I'm in my second year of clarinet lessons (after many lessonless years of playing), but cannot afford two music lessons, especially for an instrument taken up on a whim.

Thanks so much,

Margaret

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