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Flute Almanac: Launching the First Edition of the New Global Flute Magazine

We are excited to present theĀ first edition of Flute Almanac, the successor to The Babel Flute, continuing its mission of being a free and open platform that brings together a global community of flutists. In this inaugural edition, we are proud to feature 13 international authors from 9 different countries, showcasing a wide array of perspectives on the flute….

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FLAUTANDO 2023

Peter-Lukas Graf LIVE! – “A musical encounter” Text: Viktoria Eschenfelder – Photos: Stefan Keller A musical encounter This year’s Flautando Day on 4 November 2023 in Boswil was not just a musical encounter, no, it was a personal, entertaining, instructive and motivating encounter with the “doyen of flautists” Peter-Lukas Graf. During our chat during the break, he said: “Everyone…

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Portrait of Eva Amsler

by Stefan Keller Curiosity – Versatility – Authenticity The Swiss professor for flute, traverso, expert in didactics, specialist for dynamic integration (Dynintegra) Eva Amsler lives a fulfilled life as a musician in many facets for and with the flute: old music on modern instruments; new music with electronics; mental training and stage fright; music and art in a broader…

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The Quarter Tone Concert Flute

invented by Eva Kingma with the collaboration of Bickford Brannen By Stefan Keller – What is so special about the quarter-tone flute? – Do I have to relearn everything to play this instrument? – What are the advantages of this instrument? The quarter tone flute, invented by Eva Kingma, developed and built in collaboration with Bickford Brannen & Brannen…

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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 Ā«place of the fluteĀ». Ā«Focus FluteĀ» With the title Ā«Focus FluteĀ», 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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Improvisation

by Stefan Keller Improvisation breaks through all language barriers and enables us to have a dialogue about our instrument, solo, in a duo, in a trio, etc.. This does not require any previous knowledge, only the willingness to enter new territory. I am talking about free improvisation with no rules. However, a few agreements help to prevent the whole…

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Low Flutes

by Stefan Keller The fascination of low flutes is something that has been haunting me for nearly thirty years. What really sets this fascination are the deep “slow” vibrations, the “sonorous sound”, the “resonance” of the different sized tubes, and the unbelievable sonority. In the following text I introduce the individual low flutes from my very personal point of…

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