Recently I’ve had loads of people telling me about physical problems they have when playing their flute. It isn’t good, it’s very worrying.
Coincidentally, someone I know in Australia, Karen Lonsdale, is doing some important research in this area. Would you be willing to help her by completing her survey? It is part of Karen’s DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) studies at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.
The survey takes very little time to do and you will be helping yourself and others. Karen has offered to write us an article, or a series of articles for the magazine. Let me know if you decide to do it. The link is below (if it doesn’t work for you, send me an email:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=FWSgOGyKE 2baBSSrdzfmP5kA 3d 3d
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Thank you so much for the blog link. I’ve just remembered that for web sites, there is a different way to access the same survey…..I only just realized when I tried to cut and paste that link that I sent you in the email. Anyway, if sending via email, the link you have is correct. If on a web site, for some reason, the link you need to paste onto a website is ( I guess in html):
Click Here to take survey
Thank you SO much,
Karen
I’ve just completed the survey – hope it helps!
I did the survey yesterday, hope it helps.
I am now writing a report for GCSE Music – and I don’t know what to say in it!
Thomas
Just completed the survey. It was really interesting. It would be good to read the results some time in the future.
I had an audition yesterday for the NYOW. The flute playing went really well but the horrible piccolo was sliding all over the place on my sweaty lip!! (Not that I’m always sweaty, it was just very hot and a bit stressful)!!
Good to get it over with though.
Hope everyone’s Ok,
Jack
Ooo! I’m auditioning for NYOW too! My auditions on Sunday… but I’m not too nervous because I don’t expect to get in… its just for the experience. What scales did they ask you Jack? I’m a bit…well… rubbish on my scales because I only entered for the audition 2 weeks ago, and hadn’t been learning the grade 8 scales before then because I’d been concentrating on the exercises in one of Moyse’s books. So I’m a BIT panicky about those!!
What did you play in the audition Jack?
Has anyone else auditioned for any orchestras recently? How did they go?
Cathy
Hi Cathy,
Sorry not to have replied before, I think you’ve probably been for your audition so telling you to prctice the 3 octave Cs, including chromatic, is probably a bit lame now! There were also a couple of the nastier melodics but I can’t remember which ones! The good news is that you can only get 6 marks for scales anyway so lets not sweat!! I played the 1st movement of the poulenc and 2 movements of a Bach. Didn’t know what to do on the pic so I played a couple of fast movements from the Telemann Fantasies!!
I don’t expect to get in either, I think I’m too young. There was a very stressed violinist leaving as I arrived and a seriously annoyed trombonist! The people who auditioned me were really friendly so I’m not sure what the problem was!!
Hope it went Ok for you,
Jack.