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 | There are "flutes" of nearly every conceivable type in the Museum Of Fine Art's collection - transverse, end-blown, duct flutes, vessel flutes, whistles, and even a Fijian instrument designed to be playe... |
Sun, 12 May 2013 00:52:03 +1200
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 | Press release from Noteworthy Sheet Music - Transcription of Debussy’s Première Rhapsodie For Alto Flute
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Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:31:38 +1200
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When Washington brought Hessian Baron von Steuben to America, he raised the standards of the American army and brought significance to the inspection ceremony...
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Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:04:47 +1300
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 | Perhaps for us classically trained players, it isn't easy to see what a jazz musician has to know to be successful...
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Mon, 04 Feb 2013 01:43:32 +1300
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 | Fernand Dufrene preferred fishing to flute playing and seemed unaware of his fame and the influence he had in music...
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Wed, 16 Jan 2013 03:44:29 +1300
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 | Though Giorgi patented his vertical flute, he wasn't the first to have the idea as an Italian, Camillo Bergonzoni, patented a vertical flute in 1879...
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Mon, 03 Dec 2012 01:49:20 +1300
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 | There have been many inventors tinkering with flute design, but through it all, the flute of Theobald Boehm still emerges as the best!...
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Tue, 30 Oct 2012 02:44:19 +1300
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 | We can't help feeling sorry for poor Gordon. He seems to have invented rather similar ideas at the same time as Boehm, but didn't have the genius of Boehm for improving them and making them workable...
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Mon, 01 Oct 2012 02:41:03 +1300
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 | Jules Demersseman was born in Holland in 1833 and when only 12 years of age received his first prize in performance...
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Mon, 20 Aug 2012 07:50:03 +1200
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With instruments that could be heard from a mile away on a clear day, it's easy to imagine the duty pair fifer and drummer acting as the soldier's morning alarm clock...
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Sun, 05 Aug 2012 02:50:30 +1200
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 | 'The Monarch of flute players', so wrote the US critics when they heard George Barrère...
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Sun, 29 Jul 2012 02:10:10 +1200
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 | Georges Laurent was a major influence on US players, which has lasted until the present day...
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Sat, 23 Jun 2012 05:30:10 +1200
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 | Eli Hudson was the most extraordinary piccolo player you will ever hear!...
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Fri, 18 May 2012 06:27:35 +1200
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 | Ernesto Kohler is a Heavenly Flute Player, not so much because of his flute playing skills - though he was, by all accounts a very fine player - but because he wrote so many pieces for the flute which ar... |
Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:31:47 +1200
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Ever heard of someone being "drummed out of town?" There was an actual duty call for drumming rogue soldiers out of the company and the fifer and drummer played it...
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Wed, 04 Apr 2012 02:32:55 +1200
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 | You could be forgiven for getting a bit mixed up with the Hotteterre family because there were so many of them! It is Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, the most famous, with whom we will be concerned here...
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Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:08:13 +1300
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 | One of the great and successful players at the turn of the century, Fransella may have been the first British professional player to have had a gold flute...
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Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:53:47 +1300
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 | Jean-Pierre Rampal was the most famous flutist of the 20th century. His influence was enormous and to many of today’s flute players, he was a model to aspire to...
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Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:27:23 +1300
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 | On first hearing Alf Andersen’s jazz tape, the sheer fun of it inspired the formation of a number of jazz groups made up of five flutes with bass and percussion along the same lines....
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Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:21:55 +1300
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 | Marcel Moyse once said that Gaubert was a truly great artist because he never played the same way at each concert; rather, he played according to his feeling at the time....
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Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:36:15 +1300
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