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Hi there forum friends, I am back in the forums again - feels good !! I have been playing the flute for two months now and am loving it - I have decided to not do the dip for the mo - hoping to do a grade 4/5 this year on flute !! v v exciting !! HOW ARE ALL OF YOU ?
Hello Trudi 
So you've succumbed to the lure of the flute! Sounds like you've picked it up very well - do you have lessons?
So you've succumbed to the lure of the flute! Sounds like you've picked it up very well - do you have lessons?
QUOTE(barry-clari @ Aug 3 2009, 02:23 PM) 
Hello Trudi
So you've succumbed to the lure of the flute! Sounds like you've picked it up very well - do you have lessons?
OH yes by THE best teacher - Atarah Ben Tovim !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
QUOTE(trudihiggins @ Aug 3 2009, 01:24 PM)
QUOTE(barry-clari @ Aug 3 2009, 02:23 PM)
Hello Trudi
So you've succumbed to the lure of the flute! Sounds like you've picked it up very well - do you have lessons?
OH yes by THE best teacher - Atarah Ben Tovim !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you remember her '80s children's TV programme?
QUOTE(barry-clari @ Aug 3 2009, 02:26 PM)
Do you remember her '80s children's TV programme?
no - I was travelling around the world in the 80's !!!!!!!
QUOTE(trudihiggins @ Aug 3 2009, 01:30 PM)
QUOTE(barry-clari @ Aug 3 2009, 02:26 PM)
Do you remember her '80s children's TV programme?
no - I was travelling around the world in the 80's !!!!!!!
where I was travelling for the most part to and from primary school in the early 80s!
Glad you're enjoying your fluting. Does your clarinet still get plenty of exercise?
How on earth have you managed to get to diploma standard in two months? 
I know that you do occasionally get people who do grade 8 a year or so after starting the flute. However, they are usually people who have huge holes in their technique and manage to scrape through because the pieces suit them and the peculiarites of their technique. I saw a youtube clip recently of a lass who passed grade 8 a year after starting, and she sounded pretty awful... (and I'm surprised she passed unless she played a lot, lot better in the exam). 
But diploma standard in two months... 
Sorry to be doubting, but are you sure that you are diploma standard? And if you are that standard in such a short space of time, why not not grade 7/8 as a practice run if you want to do a flute exam before you do the diploma?
She wrote G4/5 
QUOTE(Flossie @ Aug 3 2009, 01:33 PM)
How on earth have you managed to get to diploma standard in two months? Pretty sure Trudi means a clarinet diploma : she's a very efficient clarinettist
QUOTE(Flossie @ Aug 3 2009, 02:33 PM)
How on earth have you managed to get to diploma standard in two months? I know that you do occasionally get people who do grade 8 a year or so after starting the flute. However, they are usually people who have huge holes in their technique and manage to scrape through because the pieces suit them and the peculiarites of their technique. I saw a youtube clip recently of a lass who passed grade 8 a year after starting, and she sounded pretty awful... (and I'm surprised she passed unless she played a lot, lot better in the exam). But diploma standard in two months... Sorry to be doubting, but are you sure that you are diploma standard? And if you are that standard in such a short space of time, why not not grade 7/8 as a practice run if you want to do a flute exam before you do the diploma?
no the dip was in Clarinet - I have grade 8 clarinet and last year was going to go for the dip - the flute is all new like !!! and I will be taking an exam this year but it'll be 4/5 !!!!!!
QUOTE(Babybird2 @ Aug 3 2009, 01:35 PM)
She wrote G4/5
Yes, but she says that she was intending to do the diploma and has decided to do grade 4/5 instead - which makes it sound like she is of the standard where she could do a diploma if she wanted to.
To be diploma standard in two months is awfully quick even for someone with exceptional talent. Edit: just seen the other replies and it makes more sense now.
Clarinet was the missing word!
QUOTE(barry-clari @ Aug 3 2009, 02:36 PM)
QUOTE(Flossie @ Aug 3 2009, 01:33 PM)
How on earth have you managed to get to diploma standard in two months? Pretty sure Trudi means a clarinet diploma : she's a very efficient clarinettist
why thank you mr Barry clarry - heard you're not bad yourself !!
True
Well, it's all been cleared up now
Well, it's all been cleared up now
QUOTE(trudihiggins @ Aug 3 2009, 01:40 PM)
QUOTE(barry-clari @ Aug 3 2009, 02:36 PM)
QUOTE(Flossie @ Aug 3 2009, 01:33 PM)
How on earth have you managed to get to diploma standard in two months? Pretty sure Trudi means a clarinet diploma : she's a very efficient clarinettist
why thank you mr Barry clarry - heard you're not bad yourself !!
Well, if our paths cross in the future, we can push ourselves to our clarinetty limits and see what happens!
QUOTE(trudihiggins @ Aug 3 2009, 01:40 PM)
why thank you mr Barry clarry - heard you're not bad yourself !!
Ah yes... as Barry would say... he can find his way round a clarinet pretty well...
Gosh - sounds like fun !!!!!!!!!
QUOTE(Babybird2 @ Aug 3 2009, 01:41 PM)
QUOTE(trudihiggins @ Aug 3 2009, 01:40 PM)
why thank you mr Barry clarry - heard you're not bad yourself !!
Ah yes... as Barry would say... he can find his way round a clarinet pretty well...
Yep, that's a b-c saying without question! You do know me quite well, don't you Claudia?...
Of course I do 
QUOTE(trudihiggins @ Aug 3 2009, 01:42 PM)
Gosh - sounds like fun !!!!!!!!!Well, if ever you're in England/London, or I'm in the bottom left hand corner of France, we'll go for it
QUOTE(barry-clari @ Aug 3 2009, 02:46 PM)
QUOTE(trudihiggins @ Aug 3 2009, 01:42 PM)
Gosh - sounds like fun !!!!!!!!!Well, if ever you're in England/London, or I'm in the bottom left hand corner of France, we'll go for it
Ok - you're on !!!!!!!!! I was in Hastings not long ago - but my clarinet was left behind - poor old clarry - I promise to play you very very soon - I wll have to when the Chamber Orchestra starts up again in September
QUOTE(trudihiggins @ Aug 3 2009, 01:51 PM)
QUOTE(barry-clari @ Aug 3 2009, 02:46 PM)
QUOTE(trudihiggins @ Aug 3 2009, 01:42 PM)
Gosh - sounds like fun !!!!!!!!!Well, if ever you're in England/London, or I'm in the bottom left hand corner of France, we'll go for it
Ok - you're on !!!!!!!!! I was in Hastings not long ago - but my clarinet was left behind - poor old clarry - I promise to play you very very soon - I wll have to when the Chamber Orchestra starts up again in September
ooo...I'll PM you Trudi
Welcome back, Trudihiggins. Good to see you here again
Nice to see you around again, Trudi! All the best in your new persuits.
QUOTE(katyjay @ Aug 3 2009, 08:25 PM)
Welcome back, Trudihiggins. Good to see you here again
Thankyou Katyjay, noodle and DaisyChain - it's nice to be back !!!
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