Teacher, thank you for all your hard work. I have listened to many of your instructional videos. I'm not sure if this is your tone style, but your tone has a raspy tonal quality. I maybe using the wrong adjective. Is that on purpose? It does seem to be unique to you as I have not heard that color or tone from others here on YT.👍😁.

Ok so for years I've been constantly annoyed at my flute for having a range that goes too high and nowhere near low enough and I feel this instrument calling to me. Probably won't end up ever owning or playing one but I am now putting it on my mental bucketlist!

मेरे जीवन के सबसे बड़े शौक में से एक बांसुरी 🙏🥰👌

Hi Have been playing the flute for several years but recently my flute stopped allowing me to play the note D It allows me to play all the other notes

I think it's great you're focusing on this. So many flutists sound like they're gasping for air!! (me too!!)

Its odd because the notes in my third octave are not created equally. My G and A sound pretty crispy but my F sharp is barely audible and sometimes my F isnt very resonant.

She's so lucky her mom is a flute teacher! 😊

Muchas gracias desde Buenos Aires!😊

THANK YOU !!!!!!! You were a BIG HELP !!!! To the mirror I go ...

I’m a brass player looking to learn flute. Why? No idea. Got a 40 dollar student flute and am loving these videos! Thank you

Thank you! This is an amazing help. Do you by chance have a video that shows notation while you play a scale? Some things I have looked at say that piccolo music is written an octave lower. I am a flute player, and play in a concert band. I would like to play some little piccolo cues that are in some of our songs. I would really like to hear the octave that should be played for what is written.

Any full band pieces with bass flute?

I got a piccolo recently and have been playing flute for 4 years. I'm trying to learn piccolo, but can only play from 2nd octave D to third octave Eb. It's a struggle to get into the lower octaves, I don't know if its me or my piccolo. Help please?

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I am just learning double tonguing and is having trouble playing the low notes while double tonguing. It cracks into the higher octave. What can I do to fix it?

Very helpful thanks

Hallo dr. FLUTE. I just "found" you😊 Thank you for this great video!!! May I ask what flute you play here? Thank you.

So gooooood ! I love it, it really works🙏 Thanks

You are an amazing teacher!!! I love your tips, it always work. God bless you❤❤❤

Professor, you deserve way more views than these. Your methodology is crystal-clear, your sound and intonation are beautiful and the lessons right to the point! Cheers from Brazil! I'm a recorder graduate and now I'm studying the concert flute more seriously than before. Thank you so much for your invaluable lessons!

I'm 12 years old, but it's too hard.

Since the Traverso and the Barroque Oboe design thinking is to imitate the sound of the singer, just lisen them and imaging that sound in your mind and you will get it>

“Back” was a cleaner, clearer sound to me.😊

Great job explaining this processes, I’m a double (theater musician) and I’ve always wanted to work on this. I feel like I’m on my way. I appreciate you. Thanks.

Thanks. Someone that comes to mind with a relaxed embouchure like the one you described is Mrs. Katayoon Hodjati. It almost looks like she is doing absolutely nothing with her embouchure. She is amazing with that!!!

i'm about to be in the Tigerband at Louisiana State University which requires me switching from flute to piccolo. I have been struggling to get many of the notes in the higher register out but this video helped immensely! Thank you!!

Hey, Doctor Flute. I have a problem, my upper lip is to the right side of my flute plate, and I do know what to do. Is that a problem? Is it affecting my flute tone ? But the most important question is what can I do to fix this?

why am i able to hit like an Ab but not an F or F#?

I recently got braces so now I have to practice differently again 😭

Thank you so much for your embouchure videos! I had a breakthrough, figured some stuff out and I was smiling ear to ear in pride. (bringing the corners of lips in for a smile totally killed my embouchure 😊) Now I only have a lifetime of practicing, refining, and playing music ahead of me! Thank you so much.

Which produces better, clearer results? LefreQue or Woodify sound ring?

Great video. Interested in learning difference between gold and silver risers.

Did you have a song that you create by yourself. pls share with me. I would like to hear it. tq

I love your videos! Thanks so much for all your brilliant advice! ❤

As an older player 55+ with fingers that are just not so nimble, leaving the right and left ring finger holes plugged works well for me. I cannot find a pre-professional c foot closed hole with ordering one from Japan or London so I make do.

Reichert are the best... on a good day when I have time I'll play through all of the exercises. Good for piccolo as well...

Thanks for the video. The term isn’t walled but should be wall. A heavy or thin wall headjoint. Gold should also give a flute more body to the sound. I don’t think you’re going to get much difference in a gold lip plate. By examining the way sound is produced at the strike edge gold may not really make much difference. It’s hard to tell much difference in a video. I’ve had a gold embouchure plate applied and the tone wasn’t much different as I was hoping. Yes the riser would make more difference as opposed to the lip plate. A player should weigh the benefits carefully on parts because of huge price.

Hii, i see lot of ur video, i really want to learn that thing, but in my country no one sells, those who have buy it from aboard, they have understanding about digital banking and how to buy online worldwide, but im not.. if u have cheap and old piccolo or flute that not u used again please send to me, i really love to learn... Thanks mom, sorry my english so broke... Pleaseeeeeeee

Next time it might be a good idea to play them first without disclosing anything about the maker or the materials. The. blindfold test precludes any assumptions and biases. That being said I think you clearly sounded best on the second Song headjoint. Your sound and articulation was most reliable on it, and it was nice. strong sound.

I love your videos Angela, I'm just beginning with the flute and they are helping me a lot <3 <3

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I think my tight embouchure came from years of playing tense in nervous stage situations and practicing stressed about upcoming performances.

Yesss! Slow gets you faster, faster :) I absolutely agree. It's a trick I've been using for years.

does it have the same fingerings as a normal flute?

"I'm sure you can get it from your local store...." Well they are prohibitly expensive, even altos.

Wow... you're so good Dr flute ❤

Yeow. I am a classically-trained flutist but I decided not to pursue a professional career. In 1974 (on the recommendation of my teacher at college) I upgraded from my student model to a slightly-used 1970 Armstrong Heritage C-foot, at the time a top-of-the-line instrument, for all of $550. It has some tuning quirks, but I know them so well after all these years that I automatically adjust on those notes. It's a thin-walled model and was pronounced "a real honker" by my repair technician (also a flutist). It's certainly a very good instrument for an amateur like me, and hopefully I won't ever have to replace it and suffer the sticker shock of today's prices!

Hello ,can you help me,sometimes i feel that my embouchure and also my flute become easy in position and very unstable, lost. Even if I support it with my body. And if I want to sing a scale, the sound is very lost, very 'dull'. What could I do?And also has no weight when is happens

That was amazing. First, let me say i was intrigued that you even made this video...not the usual fodder for "learn to play the flute videos". So...years ago I had a Haynes, drawn, custom head joint. A big bright sound. One day someone gave me this old unplayable flute they had lying around that they didnt want. It is a Sealos, hand built, soldered.. I was intrigued by the low serial number, 118, and the fact that it wasn't built in a factory. I think my Haynes was number 37 thousand and something, or was it 137 thousand? I had the Sealos re-padded, started playing it..and wow. WOW! I sold that Haynes and forgot about it...until now. I had never thought about this until I heard you play. Bright vs Dark tone...maybe the flute you choose reflects your spirit...Love my dark Sealos flute!

Tension is a right pest :) Gaagh.