Re: Subject: Re: [Harp-L] What other instruments do you play?

[Arnold Wiliem <arnoldw.id@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's interesting Elizabeth. How could you manage to learn many different
wind instruments at the same time?

To me learning flute and improving my harmonica playing at the same time is
quite challenging.. especially I haven't got any flute teacher yet. Somehow
I got an impression that harmonica can be studied in self-taught method
while flute needs a formal lesson to get at least the foundation so that we
can get rid of the bad habits which will be troublesome in the future. Well
that's only my personal opinion based on just 2 months experience learning
two wind instruments at the same time (I've been learning harmonica for
about 1.5 years). Nevertheless, I do believe wind instruments share similar
characteristics. Some techniques in one instrument could be brought to
another instruments.

Happy to hear someone is blowing flutes besides the lovely sound of our very
tin-sandwich instruments in this list.

Best Regards

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:28 AM, <EGS1217@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Arnold, I also fairly recently acquired a flute (have always loved flute
> music - Nicholas Gunn comes to mind), and am struggling a bit with
> it....although most of the book/cd combos I've bought to study for the flute
> sound wonderful on a 16 hole chromatic. Their sound blends
> beautifully......as well as struggling with my new saxophone and clarinet :)
>
> SmoJoe just helped me set up the latter two: he's proficient in several
> saxophones, clarinet, trumpet, etc, but is way too modest about his
> abilities. I have an old cassette of his where he plays all of these
> instruments. It's good enough to be a CD.
>
> I sing (but not in public) and play piano and keyboard as well.  Am also
> working on 'doubling'...with chromatic and keyboard at the same time - since
> I'm improv-ing - making up some interesting music on the keyboard so I can
> have it as backing for my chromatic play.  One of these days....
>
> Elizabeth
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> Message: 11
> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:53:22 +1000
> From: Arnold Wiliem <arnoldw.id@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] What other instruments do you play?
> To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> I just started learning flute, quite hard though. Unfortunately, harmonica
> n
> flutes can't be played simultaneously. Anybody has the same "double"
> combination as me (i.e. harmonicas n flutes)?
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