Why is it that I always get this sudden urge to play my flute when it's way too late? Sometimes I loathe living in a mid-terrace!!! I need a soundproofed room!

I am the same, I would love to play the Piano late at night (at home.) I think it must have something to do with the end of the day and relaxing. Do you find it easier to play your instrument late at night or in the morning?

If I win the lottery i'll buy us both a sound proof room!!

lol, you're on!

actually by best time to play is fairly early in the day - esp. before I have eaten, or eaten much.... too much food and I can't play at all!

but I do tend to get this sudden urge last thing at night to go play... I need to start playing quiet instruments last thing at night or something!

i always practice better first thing in the morning, seem to loose my concentration the further on in the day it goes. i tend to get into uni for about 9am n practice for a few hours, after bout 4 i'm done!
Lx

QUOTE (sarah-flute @ Dec 28 2004, 07:18 AM)

Why is it that I always get this sudden urge to play my flute when it's way too late? Sometimes I loathe living in a mid-terrace!!! I need a soundproofed room!

Me too.

I always seem to practice better late in the night or early in the morning too. No one to disturb you, everything so quiet and peaceful you can really feel the music! Just wish I could do it more often

I always want to practise ridiculously early (especially on Sundays!) or late as well. I think I need one of those 'silent' pianos!

Yes, just before I go to bed, I get a sudden urge to practice, when I can't when the rest of my family is in bed. I get the feeling I would get told off if I suddenly started practicing my top notes in the dead of night. For me the best time to practice is afternoon/evening.

Well at least us fluatists play quiet instruments. Imagine what it must be like if you play the trumpet of something, you'd never stop worrying about disturbing someone.

My best time whenever theres no-one else in the house... otherwise its starts to feel like a <shudder> performance! lol

Hehe, although our high notes can be quite piercing!

QUOTE (sutty_73 @ Dec 27 2004, 11:28 PM)

I am the same, I would love to play the Piano late at night (at home.) I think it must have something to do with the end of the day and relaxing. Do you find it easier to play your instrument late at night or in the morning? If I win the lottery i'll buy us both a sound proof room!!

Hi, Craig,

Any chance of putting me down for a chateau? A modest size one would do then I could install a nice 5 manual organ (you can pick em up cheap down at our local 'we clear old homes' place....I think...).

I'd be most grateful. The arrangement is reciprical of course, should I win the big one!

R

(Hoping you had a pleasant holiday)

QUOTE (nicki_flute @ Dec 28 2004, 08:47 AM)

I get the feeling I would get told off if I suddenly started practicing my top notes in the dead of night. For me the best time to practice is afternoon/evening.

All the more reason to get a bass flute.

QUOTE (sarah-flute @ Dec 27 2004, 11:18 PM)

Why is it that I always get this sudden urge to play my flute when it's way too late?

Same thing, although I usually do my flute practice around 8 o clock ish in the evening, I usually get an urge to play the piano around 11 o clock or midnight...

well I gues I'm glad it isn't JUST me. Doesn't help that I've slept badly the last few days - think that's part of the problem! I'm behind my usual schedule all day, and that includes my late practice session... instead of the fairly reasonable 8-9 ish, I get to that point in thinking "hmmm, some more flute practice..." at 11.... oops

My brain starts shutting down for the night by about 9 so I don't get this urge.

QUOTE (sbhoa @ Dec 28 2004, 01:23 PM)

My brain starts shutting down for the night by about 9 so I don't get this urge.  ;)

If my brain shuts down at this time, it would be terrible... Because I'm generally still doing homework at this time...!!

Is that 9 in the morning Subatomic_star!!!

Me as well!!

QUOTE (sutty_73 @ Dec 28 2004, 04:46 PM)

Is that 9 in the morning Subatomic_star!!! Me as well!!

No In the evening, although homework is generally carrying on until 11 ish at night, occasionally after midnight...

My brain never wakes up until about 9 in the evening anyway so it's a good job I play the flute (and still can't manage the high notes) so my late night practices don't disturb the neighbours too much. Imagine if you were learning the bagpipes...

QUOTE (woodwind @ Dec 28 2004, 05:59 PM)

Imagine if you were learning the bagpipes...

If I was learning the bagpipes I would probably have had them thrown out the window by now, courtesy of my family!!

QUOTE (sarah-flute @ Dec 27 2004, 11:18 PM)

Why is it that I always get this sudden urge to play my flute when it's way too late? Sometimes I loathe living in a mid-terrace!!! I need a soundproofed room!

I woke up hearing this wonderful tune a while ago. I was humming it the next day.

QUOTE (david_t @ Dec 28 2004, 06:06 PM)

I woke up hearing this wonderful tune a while ago. I was humming it the next day.

Iv been humming the great escape since one of my friends started humming it in music (about 3 weeks ago!)

I sometimes want to practice piano or sing late at night but I don't think my parents would like it! It's quite frusterating though, because I like to be in the mood when I practice and if I'm in a practicing mood at midnight, I want to practice. I'm a night person though, I love staying up late so maybe that's why. My mom says artistic people like staying up late and do some of their best work at night. I guess I'm artisic!

I seem to work well under pressure, so the best time for practicing is half an hour before my piano lesson. Of course I'm a devoted musician...

I always want to play my viola late at night!

I have found out I want to play just before I go to bed :-|

I must say I feel sorry for all of you who have to worry about neighbors...I live a mile away from the nearest one. I love to play piano late at night and I usually don't get done with my flute practice until fairly late. My dearest family has finally given in and tries their best to ignore me.

My problem is that I always seem to get the urge to go for a long run about 11 pm.....it never seems to work when there are no streetlights.

I have no choice but to play after 9:00pm during the week. Would love to have time during the day to practise. I am best in the afternoon and hate practising when I am tired. Last night for instance. It was rubbish!

I find playing the piano is a nice way of relaxing and switching off just before bed, though it tends to make my bedtime later than planned. But I never feel like singing that late in the evening - too much hard work!

It's a pity there isn't an electric flute that you could play and listen to yourself through headphones. Or is there?!



Amber
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It's a pity there isn't an electric flute that you could play and listen to yourself through headphones. Or is there?!

There IS such thing as an electric flute but the sound is only amplified so you couldn't listen to it through headphones.

I thought there probably would be. Every time I come up with an idea for a new invention I discover that someone's beaten me to it. But, maybe there's hope for me to come up with a wonderful "Silent flute"

[goes off to her drawing board, armed with newly sharpened pencils, to be creative]



Amber
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[comes back for white lab technician's coat with Biros in top pocket, and protective eyewear. After all that's what inventors wear, isn't it?]

Well what about for a silent flute, a hollow piece of metal with keys on with a cork in the end

Oh great. Someone's already beaten me to it.

QUOTE (nicki_flute @ Jan 6 2005, 06:32 PM)

Well what about for a silent flute, a hollow piece of metal with keys on with a cork in the end

Hahahahaha... haven't laughed so much for a while.

Then there's a vision of a silent sub-contra-octo-bass flute as a length of oil pipeline with man/woman* hole covers all along it and a sort of sluice gate at the end to close it off (complete with hand wheel).

*what's politically correct? Personhole covers?

Yamaha make silent brass instruments. I guess they can't do the same with wind instruments as the sound comes out of more than one hole. However, I've heard of electronic saxophones. Whether they're silent or not is another matter

lol

I guess the difficulty with an electric flute is that to be of any use, especially for practicing, it would have to react and produce sound in the same way a flute does without actually being at all the same - because as soon as the sound is made by the airstream hitting the edge of the headjoint, it isn't silent any more... but how can you have one that produces an electric sound the same way? you'd have to plaster it all over with electric sensors that knew what a particular amount of air moving past it in a certain way would produce... I'm sure it would be possible, it just seems like it would be really difficult and expensive. whereas with string instruments you can just remove the soundbox and amplify a different way. I'm probably making no sense, but I know what I mean... lol... making a silent one as you say wouldn't be so hard lol but making one that's useful would be difficult it seems.

silent brass instruments? sounds intriguing... are they the kind where you can plug them in to a set of headphones or speakers?

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Hahahahaha... haven't laughed so much for a while.

Glad I cheered you up

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Then there's a vision of a silent sub-contra-octo-bass flute as a length of oil pipeline with man/woman* hole covers all along it and a sort of sluice gate at the end to close it off (complete with hand wheel).

If it is that big then perhaps it has fallen out of the beanstalk - Jack's of course

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Oh great. Someone's already beaten me to it.

Sorry Amber! *visions Amber stomping back to her lab, returning with her normal clothes, white coat cast aside*

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I'm probably making no sense, but I know what I mean

You were making sense!

QUOTE (nicki_flute @ Jan 6 2005, 09:20 PM)

QUOTE I'm probably making no sense, but I know what I mean You were making sense!

YAY!

QUOTE (Amber @ Jan 6 2005, 06:46 PM)

Oh great. Someone's already beaten me to it.

Well then why don't you create a device to stop our flutes getting cold in the winter and going sharp? Would be very useful. *Makes puppy eyes at Amber*

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our flutes getting cold in the winter

What about a glove thing with holes where the keys go? You could have it in different colours!

QUOTE (nicki_flute @ Jan 8 2005, 12:04 AM)

QUOTE our flutes getting cold in the winter What about a glove thing with holes where the keys go? You could have it in different colours!

Sweater for the flutes ??

Yes, that is right, for competitions you could make a 'uniform'!!

wouldn't a sweater rather affect the tone of the flute???! though maybe that would help in the flute mute stakes...

Didn't some of us 'seriously' discuss setting a business making flute warmers up on the viva flute board (someone do a search under 'scarves' and see what somes up)

We were thinking of making little woolen tubes to slip over our flutes between playing in concerts to try and keep the heat in.

QUOTE (Subatomic_Star @ Jan 7 2005, 10:55 AM)

QUOTE (Amber @ Jan 6 2005, 06:46 PM) Oh great.  Someone's already beaten me to it.   Well then why don't you create a device to stop our flutes getting cold in the winter and going sharp? Would be very useful. *Makes puppy eyes at Amber*

Oh that's easy. Just stand in the Airing Cupboard when you play it.

Hardly worth putting the white coat back on for!

Next invention please?!?!



Amber
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How about something to prevent a chocolate grand woohoo to melt in the a hot, hot day before I give it to clarinetlover from MY to UK (is that correct ?) ?

QUOTE (Student @ Jan 10 2005, 08:56 AM)

How about something to prevent a chocolate grand woohoo to melt in the a hot, hot day before I give it to clarinetlover from MY to UK (is that correct ?) ?

A mini fridge?

Amber - a challenge for you....

A flute which prevents spit coming out of the end but lets the sound out

yay a mini fridge, im getting one of them sometime soon! seriously i am!

its good for keeping grand chocolate woohoo and alcohol in!

How about an electric piano ? No, I don't mean that piano. The kind that send a electric surge up your finger when you play a wrong note especially scales. (HA HA HA, evil scientist laugh .)