The Enchanted

My flute practically plays itself. From the lowest to very near the highest notes, I can hit them effortlessly, and my fingers easily remember the tunes I played over and over again as a child. Why, I could even get back into business!. A Jazz band perhaps? Hmm

A flute is not a versatile instrument. It will always be soft, nice, friendly. It can do sad or happy and all the range of emotions, and some can make it have a fairy flute conversation, but it can't do, say, loud angry rock, unless you do very weird things with it, that maybe you shouldn't.

It never does loud unless your playing in your apartment after 10pm, like I just did. In an orchestra, the flutes are always miked, and it's still hard to hear them against all the other winds and strings. Flutes just do their little twirly-fluty things out on their own, and their very happy like that thank you very much.

So what does a maverick coyote of the south-west like me do with a flute? I know how to play it, that's one. And I had a sad history with flutes that I just re-wrote when I put my paws on this one. Now the story is, I have my flute and I can play it too. That's two. And the third reason is, it blows! hehe.

Its satisfying to use your breath to make sound. I don't think that sound will ever be as big as I need it to be, but I have a synth for that. I'm gonna stick to the pretty fairy flute sound, and explore it's range. What I love the most about it is it's aerial quality. When you can give your own signing voice the same aerial quality as a flute, that's Big. And if I could program that same aerial quality into my synth, that would be... portable! Fun to be had.

Of course I need to learn to use that keyboard. But It is not portable. It will have to wait for the fall.

I am almost in Amsterdam, life has shifted gears and I like it.

Amourx

Tara