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Selecting the Best Pads for Your Flute

By Rachael Simon As a professional flute repair specialist, one of the most common questions I receive from flutists is, “What kind of pads should I get?”. I love getting asked this question, because pads are probably one of my favorite things to talk about. It’s for good reason–there are few components that are as crucial to the sound…

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Acerca de las obras de Astor Piazzolla

por Claudio Barile Haber abordado las obras de Astor Piazzolla y particularmente de sus Seis Estudios Tangusisticos es algo que no hice sino después de la sugerencia de  quien aquí en Buenos Aires fuera mi editor Ivan Cosentino para su sello discográfico IRCO consagrado exclusivamente a los compositores de música argentina. En realidad tenía yo preparado para grabar el…

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FLAUTANDO – Boswil: a famous flute event in Switzerland since 1999

FLAUTANDO will take place on Saturday, 5 Nov. 2022 in Boswil, the «place of the flute». «Focus Flute» With the title «Focus Flute», FLAUTANDO Boswil invites you to an extremely colourful flute day on 5 November 2022 with a top-class line-up of flutists. www.flautando.ch Flautando is aimed at professionals, students as well as amateurs and lovers of this fascinating…

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El tacto y la flauta

Marcelo Alvarez Introducción ¨…Nada hay en el intelecto que no haya entrado por los sentidos…¨ Aristóteles De esta frase de Aristóteles podemos deducir que el conocimiento es estimulado a partir de la acción de los sentidos, pero si nos referimos a la música, cuando y porque medios conocemos a nuestro instrumento?  Que sentidos se ponen en funcionamiento para permitir…

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Focus! Regulating states of being to improve learning

by Robert Cart Inspired by the bel canto school of singing, and based in principals of neuroscience, this article introduces flutists to basic physiological concepts of autonomic arousal.  By utilizing the suggested protocols, the flutist can leverage the autonomic nervous system to improve learning, memorization, and performance.  The great bel canto vocal instructor, Giovanni Battista Lamperti, referred to the…

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