How to Love Your Flute

How to Love Your Flute

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How to Love Your Flute: A Guide to Flutes and Flute Play­ing, or How to Play the Flute, Choose One, and Care for It, Plus Flute His­tory, Flute Sci­ence, Folk Flutes, and More (Paperback)
by Mark Shep­ard (Author), Anne Suber­caseaux (Illus­tra­tor), Paul Horn (Preface)
Price: $11.25
I am a well rounded per­son con­ver­sant in the arts, let­ters, and sci­ences. In the mid-1970s, I was attracted to flute play­ing since Radha-Krishna play flutes and they are one of the old­est instru­ments which can be learned by ear as their early play­ers did. I taught myself how to play sim­ple trans­verse folk flutes, which were inex­pen­sive and easy to carry around. I enjoyed my bam­boo flute and brass fife for sev­eral years.
In 1981, want­ing to expand my play­ing reper­toire, I pur­chased a clas­si­cal flute and How to Love Your Flute by Mark Shep­ard to teach me how to play it. Twenty eight years later, my bat­tered copy of How to Love Your Flute remains with me through many moves as a valu­able reference.
Mark Shep­ard pro­vided every­thing I needed to know to enjoy play­ing bam­boo and clas­si­cal flutes in both pub­lic and pri­vate set­tings, solo as well as with bands and jam groups. He pro­vides tech­nique, music the­ory, and handy ref­er­ence charts. Espe­cially suited for some­one who wants to famil­iar­ize them­selves with their instru­ment and be able to quickly start play­ing music. Highly recommended.

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