Greetings and welcome to a new Flute Friday/Saturday. Happy Halloween! We all know that Taffanel and Gaubert’s 17 Daily Exercises is the Holy Grail of all scale books. Most of us have drilled Exercise #4 over, and over, and over again to practice everything from articulation to rhythmic variations and even pitch bends. It is…

Happy Monday, Everyone. Welcome to a new Flute Friday (not on Friday). I don’t know about all of you, but I have had a terrible week and need a good laugh. Today’s post is a collection of the top 20 flute jokes I have found on the internet (rated G, of course!). None of these…

Greetings and welcome to a new Flute Friday/Saturday! Apologies for being MIA for the past couple of weeks. A family emergency put all of my projects temporarily on hold and getting back into the groove has been a bit of a struggle, but today I am back! Hope you have missed Flute Friday as much…

Greetings and welcome to a new Flute Friday/Saturday. One of my favorite things to do in my free time is attend a local pub quiz with my husband held in one of the restaurants in downtown Davis. A few weeks ago, I began to think about how fun it would be to design a similar…

Greetings and welcome to a new Flute Friday. I recently received a message from one of my readers that said, “I wish you would use some images of OLDER people playing the flute & issues to do with being a mature player… The flute is NOT only for young people.” I could not agree more.…