Am I the only one who's worried about this little flautist and think that they need a nice, friendly, teacher to tell them that they need to hold it the other way round?!!

OH yeah i didnt even notice!

When I showed my nan my new flute she held it the wrong way and it looked really wierd!

I know, apart from YAP's smilie he made me, I can't find a good one!

I can't believe you're picking up on that...

I know - I would never have thought about it in the first place. Anyway, where did all the new smileys come from?

A present from our wonderful moderating team.

Hope my daughter doesn't try playing like this in her exam tomorrow

good luck to your daughter for tomorrow !

Thanks!!

Good luck to your daughter, I am sure that she will be fine.

Two Grade 5's I hope so! Thanks Moomalade! Nice to see you back, hope Uni is ok.

Hi IrisH LoonY

Well, no, neither can I really. Either I haven't got anything else better to do or I'm just getting rather old and having too many senior moments..... (possibly both!). Whatever, it was only meant to be a light-hearted comment and no criticism intended. I think the new smilies are wonderful and just love them though I do miss the little guy with the "shades" on.

Here's to the arrival of an oboist sometime or an organist with manic footwork. I think the harp-player is fantastic ,- they must be exhausted with all the effort though. Oh no, here I go again worrying about our new little friends. Take me away someone to lie down in a darkened room ......




Yes, good luck to your daughter for the exam. I'm sure she'll do really well.

Me too!

I also think the harpist rocks - and I knew there was *something* wrong with the flautist but couldn't figure it out.....

I'm not a flautist (obviously) and maybe this is a stupid question, but even if its wrong, difficult and sounds wierd and you can't use the keys . . .

. . . is it actually physically possible to play the flute upside down and left handed - blowing accross the bottom of the hole instead of the top??

Left handed - yes (if you mean, pointing out to the left side of the body not the right)

Upside-down - as in the embouchure hole pointing down not up? - erm, well yeah I can get a note.

perhaps he's just admiring himself in the mirror

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl6790ODtT4 <--- Upside down and then back to front. Enjoy.

(Never one to resist a challenge to do something silly.........)

OK - I tell a lie - the first video got eaten in the ether, this is the one where I managed not to giggle.

Enjoy. Or something........

And yes, I probably need to get out more...

Go on. Play your flute like that on a future forum concert Sarah.

Me and my friend play our flutes back to front in concert band sometimes - its fun!!
It's really weird hearing the sound come out of the other end though!!

And if anyone challenges you, you can just says that's its avant garde, experimental or post-modern. Or one of those other terms

Wow! On the other hand: Omigod, whadavistarted?

I don't plan to make a habit of it..........

Sarah-Flute, did I notice that you had your flute on your shoulder in that video. Tut tut



The band are all left handed too. Have to say though, these smilies are fantastic. How do people come up with them and make them work!!

Back to the little fluter, I think that he is a musicologist who has seen the pictures of early flute players holding their instruments that way and he is trying to see how it alters the sound as he is using a mediaeval keyless flute.

The other weird thing that non-instrumentalist people do - if imitating flute playing - is to have both sets of fingers towards them, rather than the left fingers facing inwards and the right fingers facing outwards.

What IS IT that makes them do that particular action????? Sorry to be a pedant, but I find it really annoying.....

At least they've got the violinist right(handed) although they don't look a very happy violinist ...perhaps it's because they are missing their left arm???

Yes, I'd noticed that too but I was too busy worrying about the flautist , the over-worked harpist, the left-handed band ........ can't worry about any more............. Still think they're all just wonderful!

I just tried playing my flute the wrong way round (to the left rather than the right), and found that although the keys were harder to press, I could get high notes much easier than normal!!