Just want to say hello to everyone here.
I am from Germany. An adult learner playing the flute. I just had my first ABRSM-Exam in November, Theory Grade 5, because next fall I want to do the Grade 6 Flute-Exam.
I hope I'll get it managed to get into writing in english, be kind if I make any mistakes please.

Schraeubchen

Welcome to the forums!

Hi Schraeubchen!

I'm sure your English is better than my German, but we do have other German speakers (and native Germans) who use this forum, so if there are some things you have difficulty expressing in English, you can always write in German and ask them for a translation.

I hope you'll enjoy your time here, and perhaps improve your English as well as your music!

to the forums!

Thanks for the replys and for the welcome.


I agree with you, a good opportunity to improve my written English.

Hello Schraeubchen!

Good luck in your theory exam, hope you pass

I've been wondering what your name means

Hope you find it useful English-wise and music-wise here, and enjoy yourself too!

Hello and welcome Schraeubchen.

Your English is pretty good.
My German is very rusty - anyway - wilkommen in forum!

Wilkommen!

Welcome to the forum, we look forward to reading about your progress on the flute.

Welcome! I had the fun of teaching a German student a while ago, who was here for a year's exchange visit. She was playing flute at around Grade 6 standard, and I had the pleasure of introducing her to some modern British music (Richard Rodney Bennett's Summer Music) while she was here.

I found it a very interesting experience, and learned as much from her as I hope she did from me.

Congratulations on your impressive theory result, and the best of luck for Grade 6.

Hello schraeubchen and welcome. I'm fairly new here too and have found a great welcome and very friendly people who are happy to give help and tips.

You sound to be at exactly the same stage of flute playing as I am: I'm also an adult learner so lets hope we both make good progress

Happy 2010!!

Thank you all for your welcome!
It feels good to have finally found some people to talk to about all the things that have to do with the ABRSM-Exams.

@skylark
my name means little screw.

@maggiemay
thank you, well I learned English in school for 8 years and I've once bin to Canada for five weeks without the possibility to speak german, after a while I started dreaming in English, I think a good sign. And I have opened leo.org in a different tab to look for words I don't know.

@qandante_in_c
I once played the Conversations years ago was fun to play. I've started to play the flute when I was about 10 years old and had lessons until about the age of eighteen. Now I restarted with lessons nearly two years ago.
It was my teachers idea to take the ABRSM-Exams, and I am so grateful for this. Thank you for the congratulation and for the good wishes.

@sweffling
it realy feels good to have someone going the same way. Did you start to play the flute as an adult? And how long are playing now? Are you going to make Grade 6 this year?

Many greetings from germany
Schraeubchen

Hi Schraeubchen, Yes I began to play the flute as an adult. I wanted to play as a child but in those days I was told that it would not be good for my physical development to try to hold a long instrument out to my side, as I would grow up lopsided, which means, more developed on one side of my body than the other!! This sounds so strange today when lots of young children are encouraged to play the flute. I learnt to play the clarinet instead which I loved but it was the flute which I yearned to play.

In fact, I would like to continue playing the clarinet except for the fact that it would be bad for my flute embouchure.

I learned the flute for three years about 16 years ago and took my Grade V practical and theory and did well. I worked towards taking my Grade VI but life and children took over and I became too busy to play and never actually took the exam. However, I began playing again about two years ago and only now am I back to the standard I used to be. It takes longer as one gets older!!

I am working on playing my Grade VI pieces, as a discipline as much as anything else, and I would like to take Grade VI this year. My only trouble is that I have become very nervous about my playing ability after such a long gap.

How about you? How long was your gap between learning and then returning again to the flute? Are you enjoying your Grade VI pieces and do you feel fairly confident?

Good luck!

Hi, sweffling,

in fact it is more than 20 years between learning as an growing up person and restart but only about 10 years not playing any Instrument. I had lessons as long, as I went to school. A few years later I startet to learn tenorsax but only for about 2 years. And then work and household and some more things occupied my time and music stealed away. I restartet to take lessons in the End of May last year. If I look back and compare my playing now and as a young person I would say it is something totally different. Right now I am close to the standard I had before, but the feeling with it is sooo different.
I havn't picked the pieces for the Grade VI exam yet. I think my teacher and me will look for it next week. My exam will be in fall, so there is still time to practice.
Will you have your Grade VI in spring?

It is really strange that people thought a young person will grow up lopsided when playing the flute. When I was a child I would have loved to learn the Cello, but my parents could not afford to first buy a quater, then a half, then a three quater and in the end a full Cello. But they didn't know that my elder brother, who learned the violin, also would have rather learned the Cello.
Know I get to love the flute more and more. Maybe it also is the difference of the flute I play. I bought a new one before restarting to take lessons. Mine was a 29 years old studentsinstrument and after all this time in need of repair. My new flute is a Altus 907ER and it is such a great instrument. I am really happy with it.

Many greetings
Schraeubchen

Glad to hear you are getting on so well with your flute. I have an altus too and love it.
Bev

Dear Bev,

I really feel lucky with this instrument. I never had such a warm tone on my old flute. Right now this instrument will be good for a longer while (as my teacher said). When I went to buy a new flute I would never had believed, that I will come home with an altus. .

Greetings
Schraeubchen


@sweffling
how about the grade 6 pieces? I started to practice on them and it looks like I will take the Pepusch, the Jardany and I don't know which piece to pick from list C. Actually I find them all pretty difficult.
What did you pick?

Greetings
Schraeubchen

Hi, Violin Hero