T. Gomez

It's Arrived

My new flute arrived from Second Voice Flutes, an F# made from English Lime. It sounds really nice and looks amazing. Hat off to David for such a wonderful creation.

Amazing - Randy Granger Improvising In a Stream

Pt Rajendra Prasanna Master Bansuri Player

This master bansuri player will be playing at the southbank centre in London in September 2012

Richard BlackHawk in the Zone and sounding fantastic

About to try out some software which should make it easier to transcribe music from audio and video. Currently looking at Transcribe! But haven't have time to have a good look yet. UPDATE: have transcribed two of three pieces of music/video and this software has definitely saved me a lot of time and enabled me to do something I would have struggled to do without it.

So much, so quickly

So, I haven't updated this blog in a while and a fair amount has happened since the last lonely posts. Flute update I now have five flutes - low D drone by Kuzin Bruce, low A# bamboo by NZT Designs, mid C Anasazi pueblo by Earth tone Flutes, mid A by Charles Little leaf and a mid A# PVC aroura flute which I made myself by following the instruction kindly provided by Clint Goss. Mostly I'm now managing to improvise at a basic level and keep in time. Went to the flute circle on Sunday and played along with everyone on a few of the flutes. Sounded real nice. Music update Been going to music lessons to learn the basics and general music (not instrument specific). I think I now finally understand timing and can read 'roughly' the score and play along slowly.

P L Miles

Your Native American Name Is: Ohanko Kosumi

According to this site, "Your name means: Restless One who Fishes for Salmon with Spear"

What's in the title

I got a wonderful book for Christmas called "The Native American Flute - Understanding The Gift" by John Vames. The first thing that struck me from the accompanying cd was when John said "Three Holes Covered" and it just stuck.

It's a very good book and has got me much further than I would have got without it.

Excercises on Cedar Mesa Site

Was sent a link by Geoffrey from the flute portal as Scott has finger charts and articles about the Anasazi flutes. However, I found more information about writing music so I had a go and this scribble is what came out, which is exactly the kind of thing I want to throw into my music scrap book :D