Greetings and welcome to a new Flute Friday! A large section of my flute studio is comprised of beginning flute students. There is a certain magic in learning the flute from the ground up. Everything is new and interesting. There are achievable challenges and brand-new goals with each lesson. The newness of learning the first…

Greetings and welcome to a new, albeit late, Flute Friday/Saturday! AI, or artificial intelligence, is a hot topic these days among us writers. Programs like Chat GPT have made it possible for anyone with a phone and a basic topic to request on-demand blog posts, articles, papers, and so much more with a single click.…

Greetings and welcome to a new Flute Friday! While I was at the National Flute Association Convention this year, I noticed something rather interesting about the way flutists introduced themselves to each other. Many of us tend to use two major things as descriptive calling cards that only folks in the flutist community would understand:…

Greetings and welcome to a new Flute Friday! Happy September! As we dive head-first into a new school year (with Iced Pumpkin-Spiced Lattes in hand, of course), many of us will be welcoming new students into our flute studios. Some of these students may be sporting shiny new instruments while others may be borrowing their…

Greetings from Phoenix! Welcome to a new Flute Friday from the 2023 National Flute Convention! Two days in and there are still so many more concerts, lecturers, and reading sessions left to attend! As we battle the scorching summer heat walking between our respective hotels and the Convention Center, many of us eventually find ourselves…