Please bear with me as I sort out some changes happening in my life that continue to pose an obstacle to its unfettered contemplation and subsequent documenting.
Also, I decided to learn a new musical instrument and settled on a flute. When I went to buy one, it turned out that a Western flute costs about seven hundred dollars and looks like the cockpit of an Airbus A320. So instead of buying a new flute, I rented one on a trial basis. The fact that no matter how hard I blow into it, no matter from which direction, I still am not able to produce any sound is weighing on my nerves. And it doesn't help that the rental agreement says, "Thank you for giving your child the musical advantage", thereby implying that the activity of flute learning usually does not lie within an adult's domain.
So please bear with me.
11 comments:
the background image on your blog header is gone. :(
It was hosted on geocities apparently? Yahoo says "This GeoCities site has been deactivated due to inactivity." please to be reactivating :)
And bear we shall. Stoically.
Amit : Thanks for letting me know. Let me know if it is still in a state of disappearance. Yes, I like that image. Reminds me of a time when there were long drives and fruitful joblessness.
Try a recorder instead. Much simpler, not only the cheapest, but also easiest instrument to ferry around. That's what I used in dearth of instruments in poverty stricken college life.
i have a question regarding the background image. i was thinking of it this past weekend. did you and me drive past something like that in real life? cos it looks damn familiar and i have an image of you and me driving through some curvy road looking into the fields by the road and letting the wind into our hair and all.
rented flute, eh....that thing must have accumulated a lot of rented spit..
twilight : Yes, I'm thinking of getting a recorder as well. Does it sound remotely like a flute though?
zambezi : It is not a part of Vermont we drove through yet it is Vermont which we drove through. And yes, there was a time I had hair and it blew in the wind and all.
anjali : My wife was of the same opinion. But it seems they sterilize, despit and demucus the flute before they rent it out just like the restaurant people do with their forks and spoons.
A recorder does sound somewhat like a flute, but not really, although it is easier to play and will set you back about $5.
Basically the technique to elicit a sound from the flute is the one you use to make sound come from a glass bottle...surely you have done that before? The trick is blowing air across the hole, not down into it.
If you would have picked violin I could be infinitely more helpful!
find someone who plays a flute....watch em closely and try to do it on ur own...
ofcourse at first you wont know what they do exactly.... but once u get the trick, u aint gonna forget it ever...
my dad plays the flute well... i learnt it by watchin him :)
get a harmonica instead
+ u can get the set of harmonica for each scale.
its extremely small ( each of them)
and u can load it in yr pockets for musical emergencies
max for 40 bucks
hey just wanted to add that
the harmonica sounds much better than the flute.
and if you like listening to blues, then its perfect
also since you like Alice In Chains,
the harmonica on the song "Don't Follow" from Jar Of Flies is simply incredible.
i started learning the carnatic flute abt 6 yrs ago and am still learning:):)..success, thy name is perseverance!:)good luck!
Post a Comment