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Post by El Gringo on May 2, 2010 12:42:42 GMT
Has anyone went and bought a flute of their own because of listening to Jethro Tull? And, how well can you play it?
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tullist
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Post by tullist on May 2, 2010 15:36:00 GMT
Has anyone went and bought a flute of their own because of listening to Jethro Tull? And, how well can you play it? I have twice been given flutes, once in about 73, that one I did nothing with, the second one in 82 got a great deal of use between about then and 95, a period when I was working only one job and was acquainted with free time. I got good enough that old ladies who lived in the building I did then, (especially my dear next door neighbor whose nameplate said I Anderson (Ivy) would claim that I played beautifully as well as a couple room mates/girlfriends of that time period. This second flute has a degree of pained energy about it in that it was given to me by an old friend in 82 who had come into possession of it thru her childhood best friends parents, this best friend had, along with her boyfriend, committed a dual suicide, jumping to their deaths into the Pacific Ocean. It has always been on loan even though that loan has now extended to 28 years. That girl, who I hired into the brokerage industry, has done alright, owning the largest brokerage firm on the Chicago Stock Exchange. Me? less so.
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jason
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Post by jason on May 4, 2010 0:33:34 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on May 4, 2010 9:51:13 GMT
even if you didn't play the flute there are some lovely ones to collect on that site
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spenny
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Post by spenny on May 4, 2010 11:27:33 GMT
My wife owns a flute. She has had it for approx 20 years. She hasn't played it for at least 10 years. She doesn't like Jethro Tull though. :-(
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Post by maddogfagin on May 4, 2010 18:24:56 GMT
My wife owns a flute. She has had it for approx 20 years. She hasn't played it for at least 10 years. She doesn't like Jethro Tull though. :-(
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Post by angusprune on May 5, 2010 20:26:33 GMT
Bought one about 5 years ago to try and broaden my horizons (I already play guitar and a bit of mando) but gave up after only a short while as somehow I just couldn't get the hang of the fingering - plus chronic asthma didn't exactly help Besides which, the book + DVD I bought only showed you how to play stuff like "Three Blind Mice" and "Frere Jacques" rather than "Bouree" or extended jazz/blues extemporisations accompanied by humming, snorting and/or spitting....
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Post by nonrabbit on May 5, 2010 21:33:59 GMT
.... Besides which, the book + DVD I bought only showed you how to play stuff like "Three Blind Mice" and "Frere Jacques" rather than "Bouree" or extended jazz/blues extemporisations accompanied by humming, snorting and/or spitting.... ;D
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kleynan
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Post by kleynan on May 7, 2010 15:23:31 GMT
I recently picked up the flute, and I have Jethro Tull to thank for that. Ive only been playing for about 1.5 months, but ive got some of the easier Tull songs down.. working on Bouree right now..
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Post by El Gringo on May 16, 2010 0:27:32 GMT
I'm half way there to buying a Pearl. With some overtime and grass cutting $ I'm thinking about 2 months. ;D
Wife's got an old ...old Bundy that I played around with, but its kinda crappy and the pads are shot.
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Post by steelmonkey on May 16, 2010 4:42:39 GMT
Me? I got a flute well before i had ever heard of Tull...in about 4th grade...joined the school band and picked last from the instrument pile...so a runty weakling was I that I purposefully picked an easy case to carry...knowing i would be staggered by a trombone, trumpet or even clarinet case on the walk to school in often icy denver...that and knowing that the hathaway twins: jenny and doreen, both played flute and i would get to sit next to them in band class....yes...libido driven in 4ht grade and proud of it. I played all through school years: bands, orchestras and school plays and even went to a music college where i soon realized being one of the better flute players in a denver high school didn't mean much compared to the real musician kids from the east coast...but i continued to tote flutes and still have one, springs sagged and valves rusted, in my closet...my daughter was unimpressed by my recent play along with SFTW...of course...playing the recorder parts...yes, PARTS ( two at a time) THROUGH MY NOSE...along with Mother Goose is a hard act to follow!
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jason
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Post by jason on Mar 1, 2011 19:06:10 GMT
I have a few different kinds of flutes. I play the pipes a fair bit and just got ordered a low D whistle.
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Post by ash on Mar 1, 2011 19:51:58 GMT
Yes I been playing over 30 years and just because of Ian. I have an Altus 907 open hole flute below How well can I play? Well I can play Boris Dancing and Griminell's lament no problem and others
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 1, 2011 22:08:33 GMT
I chose flute for school band, years (ca 1967) years before I discovered Tull (1-1-72). I chose it cuz i was a weakling who could not possibly tote a manly instrument case like tuba, trombone or even clarinet back and forth to school ( cue Python schtick on walking to school...)...but was manly enough in my head to shun violin/viola.....worked out well.. I got to sit next to the slutty Hathaway twins, Jenny and Carol, for years in school band and was ahead of the game when I did stumble on Tull and taught myself Bouree and bits and pieces of My God and TAAB. Lost interest during puberty and drugs...never even graduated to open hole model but did get picked in about 8th grade to be one of about 10 Denverites to get a 'master class' with John-Pierre Rampal.....got as far as a first date with Jenny Hathaway when I was about 16 and contrived to make her look into the glove compartment of my Falcon...so she could see I brought contraception.....got kissed but not much more...
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Post by futureshock on Mar 2, 2011 0:38:29 GMT
Well meanwhile back in the year about 1976 or so, I had a piggy bank the size of a pigs nostril, so after hearing the Tull records around then, I finally won over Santa and got a fresh off the rack Artley for Christmas. So a "Tull-influenced flute purchase", confirmed. I remember the store employee in Windsor Ontario actually started playing Tull's Bourree in the store, so I could hear the flute, because I'd never played one before, but had this quite strong inkling that I could be good at it. Since then, gone through many flutes and now have a collection of whistles and related ethnic flutes, but ironically, I'm currently between "silver C" flutes. I had two of them two years ago. I am considering another new CD and to be quite honest, I've tested a few intermediate models and there's just no way I'm going to work through another recording process with these student model flutes that just don't have the lively and easy response or tone of the quality intermediates. Flutes any "better" than that, aren't necessarily better than that, I've read so many reviews I've figured that out. It's still a game of having to do the search thoroughly, and I'm convinced that many manufacturers really don't do a great deal of research into the design options of the headjoints, tone holes and lip plates. If you check out what the smaller shop specialists are doing, you realize the larger manufacturers are often just pumping out the same flute, essentially, and the only difference in their models is the metal content, not the important design improvements you'd expect. Those flute manufacturers who have quality to offer will often go to great lengths to give you the details of what those improvements are. They will regularly be consulting pro flute players and those in the education system to see what is working and how to improve things. No details = suspicious operation!
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Post by futureshock on Mar 2, 2011 0:52:34 GMT
As to the issue of "how well do you play?", when I'm in good practice, I got to the point where I was in quite good control of the instrument's tonal possibilities, played with very good control of phrasing, rhythm and tonal color to match the song sections, worked on having lots of air capacity (running and stretching helps), and had a good capacity to play in the common keys.
I was never nearly as accomplished as an orchestral player who will be able to play fluently in far more keys and perhaps have that perfect and reliable neutral flute tone, but if you give me one of their $5000 - $10,000 flutes and let me practice with it for a week, my tone and (easy to intermediate difficulty) phrasing would be as good as theirs. I've always focused on the tonal flexibility as much as the notes. That's how I hear it and play it. Won't hear that going on in orchestras.
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Post by futureshock on Mar 2, 2011 0:56:20 GMT
Yes I been playing over 30 years and just because of Ian. I have an Altus 907 open hole flute What do you prefer about the open hole option? Rolling the notes? Better intonation?
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 2, 2011 3:44:14 GMT
Just looked back and saw I answered twice....and bungled one of the slut twin's names in the first draft...Doreen was a different flute playing junior high crush i got nowhere with. I always thought open hole was the real thing:requiring better technique, control and overall competence....I was never able to master open hole and figured it was sloppy fingering ( the flute...not the Hathaway twins) and a sign from the universe that my talent had reached it's limit at medium etudes and some bits of Tull.
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Post by ash on Mar 2, 2011 18:13:47 GMT
Yes I been playing over 30 years and just because of Ian. I have an Altus 907 open hole flute What do you prefer about the open hole option? Rolling the notes? Better intonation? I find the fact you can an do glissandos and pitch bends by sliding your finger over the hole very useful for playing a lot of Ian's music as he does that a far bit. I do believe there is a slight tone advantage over a closed hole model and I have played both. I would never go back to a closed hole flute but there not for everybody and I just like the over all feel from them
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Post by brickalathick on Apr 4, 2011 15:27:29 GMT
I used to.
Too lazy to be good.
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Post by jackinthegreen on Apr 28, 2019 21:01:17 GMT
Has anyone went and bought a flute of their own because of listening to Jethro Tull? And, how well can you play it? Yes. I bought one in 1971 purely from hearing Tull. I still have that same flute, it has had new pads fitted some time ago. I also have a newer one. I hardly ever pick it up these days, but when I was into playing it I could play a lot of Tull stuff, the solo in Song for Jeffrey I liked, the solo in Life is a Long Song, Bouree and Serenade to a Cuckoo, but not all of the improvised bits, I also learned a few Irish reels and jigs etc. I am thinking of buying a low whistle......and would like to try a wooden flute.....
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