Welcome to Flute Friday! Last weekend I sight read a number of piccolo parts in one of the local groups I play with after having been on a piccolo hiatus since January. I often think that the most difficult thing about playing the piccolo is mustering the courage to belt out your parts no matter…

Welcome to a new Flute Friday/Saturday! I have started a new series on my Twitter page called Dr. G’s Daily Flute Tips. Please check it out @RTGeier and subscribe to receive my daily inspirational flute advice. Today’s flute blog will not be as deep or informative as some of my previous blogs. Sometimes it is…

Welcome to another Flute Friday. We live in a world of instant gratification. Information that may have taken hours of research in a library 20 years ago can now be found quite literally in the palm of our hands by Siri in 30 seconds or less. Rapid fire advancements in technology have created an app-based…

Welcome to another Flute Friday. Years ago I purchased a flute with a C# trill key and, although it seemed quite exciting at the time, I have since only used it in one or two circumstances. When the time came for one of my students to purchase an instrument with a similar feature I was…

Relocating Your Studio by Rachel Taylor Geier, DMA. Article originally published in the January 2016 issue of Flute Talk. Republished with permission. Relocating Your Studio by Rachel Taylor Geier, Flute Talk, January 2016