Hi there, everyone !
I'm coming for some advice here.
I'm only doubling on clarinet and sax and am seriously considering adding the flute. First because I think it's a lovely instrument to play (well, I never tried, but I guess it must be), and also because it certainly would be a great step further in this ww doubling thing that is obviously going on here for me.
Now, I could start with a student level flute. Problem is, I started with a student level clarinet. It quickly showed its limitation and I bought a second-hand top Buffet Crampon clarinet. This meant extra money (not that much actually because I got it from a old man who used to play in the army band but who doesn't anymore and he sold it to me for a really low price) and most of all some adaptation time. I noticed I had taken bad habits to make my old (well old... My "new" one is older but you get my point) clarinet sound acceptable which I had to get rid off before I was able to have that nice wooden sound I've always sought.
2 years ago, I bought a student-level alto sax that flirted with the intermediate saxes to start getting my hands on saxes. I loved it for the first year and so but now I'm starting to reach its limits.
Anyway, that leads me to some questions, if you folks have time to answer them.
I know some are resilient to those "doublers-friendly" instruments, but my request here is not that much asking for such an instrument but rather if it would be best to directly buy a good flute rather than start on a low level flute ?
I think I've also heard many say that doubling didn't mean you could skip steps in learning an instrument, but wouldn't even a kid starting the flute benefit from having a top flute ?
Finally, what flute would correspond to these criteria ? I know about the Yamaha YFL-4 and -5 but don't know anything more than that about flutes.
I think I would start with closed holes as I have stumbled across a few if any advantages of getting open holes.
Thanks again for your time and have a great day !
Pierre
I'm coming for some advice here.
I'm only doubling on clarinet and sax and am seriously considering adding the flute. First because I think it's a lovely instrument to play (well, I never tried, but I guess it must be), and also because it certainly would be a great step further in this ww doubling thing that is obviously going on here for me.
Now, I could start with a student level flute. Problem is, I started with a student level clarinet. It quickly showed its limitation and I bought a second-hand top Buffet Crampon clarinet. This meant extra money (not that much actually because I got it from a old man who used to play in the army band but who doesn't anymore and he sold it to me for a really low price) and most of all some adaptation time. I noticed I had taken bad habits to make my old (well old... My "new" one is older but you get my point) clarinet sound acceptable which I had to get rid off before I was able to have that nice wooden sound I've always sought.
2 years ago, I bought a student-level alto sax that flirted with the intermediate saxes to start getting my hands on saxes. I loved it for the first year and so but now I'm starting to reach its limits.
Anyway, that leads me to some questions, if you folks have time to answer them.
I know some are resilient to those "doublers-friendly" instruments, but my request here is not that much asking for such an instrument but rather if it would be best to directly buy a good flute rather than start on a low level flute ?
I think I've also heard many say that doubling didn't mean you could skip steps in learning an instrument, but wouldn't even a kid starting the flute benefit from having a top flute ?
Finally, what flute would correspond to these criteria ? I know about the Yamaha YFL-4 and -5 but don't know anything more than that about flutes.
I think I would start with closed holes as I have stumbled across a few if any advantages of getting open holes.
Thanks again for your time and have a great day !
Pierre
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