DIY

[tinuviel]

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

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[chili_das_schaf]

Biting the bullet ^^

Also, interesting how you have written "bight" xD

[tinuviel]

Oh dear! I can only claim in my defence that I've been doing nothing but Japanese revision since Thursday and I think my language centre died :-S You wouldn't believe how many typos I corrected in this entry, but there's one that escaped...
Thanks for helping with the idiom though!

[garryk]

Well, you seem to enjoy playing your flute a lot and you're doing quite well with it atm me thinks. I certainly reckon that you should keep it up and save to get a better one in a year or so's time. It'll be worth it, you've taken too it quite well me thinks.

[tinuviel]

I'm going to try to keep it up, but sadly my enthusiasm for instruments has a way of disappearing quite quickly. Mind you, the flute is the first "proper" (I'm not counting the ocarina here) instrument I'm learning because I wanted to. I learned the recorder because my mum wanted me to; I learned the guitar, because my dad wanted me to and my godfather had given me one and I learned the clarinet because two of my close friends were learning it and it was somehow "cool". So hopefully I'll keep at it. I just want to be on the safe side - a decent flute can easily cost around 200 to 400 pounds - and that would be a massive waste of money, if it just ended up in a corner...
We shall see really - if you can keep up the guitar, I can keep up the flute :-P

[tinuviel]

I know! For all the other instruments I learned, I always had some sort of sponsor - normally a parent who wanted me to learn said instrument and hence would provide me with everything needed... The flute is the first instrument I'm wanting to learn for me - I'm just not sure if I can do that without another sponsor :-S Lovely parents? Are you already searching for a Christmas/Birthday present for me? Search no longer, I've got just the thing you could get me!