Weird Flute is Weird!
Here's a little creepy story for you all.
I have a Pine Flute- made in the image of a Cedar Flute.
And I play this flute often- becuase it's ubber cute and I like to indulge in bad flute playing.
Thing is, over the weekend at the Annual Drum Festival, I purchased an Ocarina in the figure of an Orca- decorated with Central American designs from a Central American Aboriginal.
Now I got home and started to play it- and I really TOOK to it. I mean, within minutes I was playing the theme form Lion King and Phantom of the Oprah... something about the finger placement on the Ocarina really hits it home with me.
But after, I didn't want to feel as if I forgone my Pine-made-in-the-image-of-a-Cedar Flute, so I figured I'd play the same tunes on it. Thing is, it wouldn't play. And I'm not saying like- oh hey, I got the fingering wrong, I mean: It just wouldn't play.
I was blowing, but no sounds was coming out. So I figured it was clogged? I was shaking and blowing to clear the pipe and still no tune.
Eventually, it gave a dull squeaky sounds, and i figured that maybe the moister of my breath did something to it... and I also thought: Well, I think I made my Flute jealous. Yarg!
Today I did the same thing, indulged a bit in my Ocarina, but then went on to my flute- and still the same story.
Except this time, I removed the little ornament on the whistle hole so that I could blow really hard into the pipe and clear it (I'm still thinking clog?). Instead, I made the loudest note ever on my flute.
Apparently, in some strange turn of events, my Flute no longer needs the actual ornament to produce the whistle sound. It's the opposite: If i put the stopper on the whistle hole, it makes the sounds as if it was off. If I remove it from the hole, it plays as if it was on.
WEEEEIIIRRRDDDDD.
I have a Pine Flute- made in the image of a Cedar Flute.
And I play this flute often- becuase it's ubber cute and I like to indulge in bad flute playing.
Thing is, over the weekend at the Annual Drum Festival, I purchased an Ocarina in the figure of an Orca- decorated with Central American designs from a Central American Aboriginal.
Now I got home and started to play it- and I really TOOK to it. I mean, within minutes I was playing the theme form Lion King and Phantom of the Oprah... something about the finger placement on the Ocarina really hits it home with me.
But after, I didn't want to feel as if I forgone my Pine-made-in-the-image-of-a-Cedar Flute, so I figured I'd play the same tunes on it. Thing is, it wouldn't play. And I'm not saying like- oh hey, I got the fingering wrong, I mean: It just wouldn't play.
I was blowing, but no sounds was coming out. So I figured it was clogged? I was shaking and blowing to clear the pipe and still no tune.
Eventually, it gave a dull squeaky sounds, and i figured that maybe the moister of my breath did something to it... and I also thought: Well, I think I made my Flute jealous. Yarg!
Today I did the same thing, indulged a bit in my Ocarina, but then went on to my flute- and still the same story.
Except this time, I removed the little ornament on the whistle hole so that I could blow really hard into the pipe and clear it (I'm still thinking clog?). Instead, I made the loudest note ever on my flute.
Apparently, in some strange turn of events, my Flute no longer needs the actual ornament to produce the whistle sound. It's the opposite: If i put the stopper on the whistle hole, it makes the sounds as if it was off. If I remove it from the hole, it plays as if it was on.
WEEEEIIIRRRDDDDD.