Welcome to this week’s edition of Flute Friday! I often wonder what I would say to a younger version of myself if I could go back in time. What advice would I give? What would I want to change? What would I want to stay the same? Looking back at my development as a musician,…

Greetings and welcome to another edition of Flute Friday! I am fascinated by the world of iPhone apps. How amazing is it that we have so many programs quite literally at the tip of our fingers? I spent my week this week reviewing various free apps targeted primarily at classical musicians and must say that I…

Welcome to another edition of Flute Friday! One of my New Year’s Resolutions for 2016 is to begin saving for a new instrument, a long overdue goal considering the body of my flute is now over 10 years old (a new headjoint in 2014 put some sparkle back into my sound but the older mechanism still limits my…

Welcome to the New Year’s Day edition of Flute Friday. Happy 2016 Everyone! Last year at this time I wrote a blog about setting New Year’s Playing Resolutions that was very helpful not only for myself and my own flute playing goals but also for many of my readers. See https://racheltaylorgeier.org/2015/01/14/new-years-flute-playing-resolutions/ . Over the course…

Welcome to Flute Friday! As I am currently in bed suffering from the traditional pre-holiday winter cold, I was inspired this week to discuss one of the most common performance related conditions: Tendonitis. Sometimes referred to as “tennis elbow” or “golfer’s elbow,” Tendonitis is an inflammation or irritation caused by microscopic tears of the tendons (tough, flexible, fibrous bands of tissue that…