Feral Flute

Breathing. Short, deep breaths in. Long, slow breaths out. This is how wind players breathe. Faster air exhaling means shorter, less musica...

Perfect pitch is the ability to identify a note or key without any other musical reference. Only about 1 in 10,000 people have perfect pitch...

Improvisation is one of my favorite ways of performing live. And comparing different styles of improvisation gives some interesting insigh...

Pan is one of the most well known Gods to play the flute or at least a flute family instrument. I’m not even going to try to list the son...

I was talking with a friend about his new key-less flute and he was lamenting that he would have to find songs in the same key as the flute...

I am dyslexic. Except that I may not be. The label of dyslexia still covers an incredibly wide range of issues and I suspect a number of l...

I never wanted to be a composer. I ornamented tunes and slowly learned to improvise but just never had any desire to write music or even to...

My father once said he was an indigent farmer and I was one of the indigents he was raising. How right that joke was. I grew up in the fores...

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