I have been quite lazy with updating lately *lol* Possibly because nothing really exciting has happened. Got my second round of jabs for Burma on Tuesday, had friends over on Friday (2 of which came 3(!) hours early when the invite was for 7 in the evening >:-( ), booked my ticket for Japan (my poor, poor bank account) and have been very bad ( Read more... )

After my accident this morning, I went online and had a look to see if I was the only one who had trouble with this particular brand of flute, or if I had just been careless in some way... No, apparently I haven't ( Read more... )

Urg. You know that you went for the cheapest flute you could find, when you already have to do the first patch jobs on it 3 weeks after purchase. Since yesterday I hadn't been able to play a Fa (F for English people) for the life of me. I kept thinking it was me not getting the blowing technique right until I discovered this morning that I could ( Read more... )

My tone is improving! I got a really nice clear tone out of my flute today. I found the flute is an excellent method of relaxation when my nerves are starting to play up, so I've just put in about half an hour of practice in my break. One of my flute books has lots of technical stuff in it (how to breath, posture, etc. etc.), which annoyed me when ( Read more... )

The flute arrived today ^^ Yay! You can see that it is a bit on the cheaper side, but the sound is lovely non the less, so really I don't care. Annoyingly enough amazon seems to take longer to send things to me within the UK than the music shop was to send me my flute from America, hence there are no books to learn from at the moment. Doesn't ( Read more... )