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Puzzle Page - July 2009
Written by Owen Auger   

Flute Fingering Puzzle

For each note printed along the top of the grid below, work out its standard flute fingering and follow the flute key list on the left to circle the correct letters underneath the note (the first column has been shaded for you). Once you have finished, read the circled letters from left to right, top to bottom to read a quote from G. K. Chesterton.

 

flute fingering puzzle

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"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."

 

Note Sentence

Why is Abe angry at his greengrocer Ed? The letter-names of the notes in each bar below form the words of the answer (one word per bar), but the letters of each word are scrambled. Unscramble the letters of each word to form the answer

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"Ed fed Abe a bad cabbage - Abe gagged."

 

Riddles

1. How can you throw your flute so that it goes a short distance, comes to a stop, then reverses and goes the opposite way? You cannot tie anything to your flute or hit it with anything.

2. At my school flute choir’s concert not one girl in the choir played a note, but the concert was a great success.

Can you explain?

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1. Throw the flute up vertically. It will come to a stop and then fall back down.
2. The members of the choir were all boys.

Owen Auger,flute auckland NZOwen lives in Wellington, NZ and is working in the energy industry. He has played in a number of concert bands and has conducted the North Shore Youth Symphonic Wind Band. He is also a keen advocate and player of jazz flute.