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What Was I Thinking ??

Author: jEwink
Date: 2006-06-21 16:44

Hi, I am diane - new to this group. New to flutes, piccolos .. NO MUSICAL BACKGROUND or talents .. NO RYTHYM .. I can't even dance !!! But I want to play the piccolo !! I am like a ferret in that I like shiney things ... I am an accountant [BORING] I sell coins and tokens on eBay [BORING] I design websites - repair computers [BORING] and buy gadgets !!

Change of life [gotta blame something for this] has led me to purchasing a sterling Armstrong [930 I think] piccolo. In my 'nest' I have a flute as well .. Which I pick up ever so often play just a hour or less because it absolutely is SO PAINFUL !!! I could maybe do better if I wasn't 99.9999% of the hour obsessing on how much my hands hurt. They are small and it feels like I am about to tear them in two .. BOTH HANDS. To make up for the fact that I can hardly balance the flute and stretch my fingers, I press HARDER on the keys . .causing MORE pain. etc etc ..

For some reason I don't have trouble getting sounds out of the flute. I must have good lungs ... Did I mention I was a smoker?? OH MY .. My doctor always say my lungs are great . .he wouldn't know that I was a smoker if I didn't SMELL!! I think he puts it nicer than that .. but regardless, that is what my non kids [grown] with kids of their own, say.

Did I mention that I tend to ramble??

Any way .. I always wanted to play the flute, I love the sound .. but life always got in my way. In school I didn't have the interest .. then came marriage and kids and family and .... Now I am 50-ish and I pulled out the flute and said "I am going to do it NOW!" Probably nobody starts with the piccolo, but I will because of the pain .. Nobody will EVER hear me play, [except my husband - animals and teacher, when I find one.] so it shouldn't really matter, right, that I will play the flute, with a piccolo???

Diane [hoping you all don't think I am nuts !! I'm not !!]

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