Elisabeth Hobbs

[...] inspiration, and got out my flute and tried playing it upside down! Yes, I placed it between my upper lip and my nose and tried using my LOWER lip, rather than my upper lip to direct the air. In a few [...]

[...] a suggestion by?  Forget about desirable; is it actually even possible to play the flute upside down? Turning the embouchure hole downwards towards the floor and placing the [...]

[...] discernible improvement to the tone quality, and certainly with no hope of the kind of embouchure flexibility that the baroque flute demands for good intonation.  Was Mahaut just flattering his [...]

[...] on the new way of playing the flute (the Nieuwe Manier om Binnen Korten Tyd op de Dwarsfluit te Leeren Spelen) has much indispensable advice for flautists, most of which remains as instructive now & [...]

[...] start to flutter around like confetti. One director after another is appointed as the small-time investors seek recognition or status in recompense for their goodwill and cash. And so the fledgling [...]

[...] afflicted flute playing correspondent. On a completely different note, Tim Barsky, in his flute beatbox FAQs, suggests that “the flute itself can be turned upside down and played with a trumpet [...]

[...] Antoine Mahaut, in his 1759 treatise on the new way of playing the flute (the Nieuwe Manier om Binnen Korten [...]

[...] odds, but hey, they’ve worked for tuppence for years to get to this point. But these nascent businesses are not really businesses at all – they are a huddle of scientist with a brilliant [...]

Musicians become musicians because they have a passion and a talent. They also have high levels of self-discipline and perseverance. To become a profe [...]

[...] of scientist with a brilliant idea, a lab somewhere else in the city, data servers in some off-site cyber crypt, and no experience of how to grow a company. Within a week or two, the office becomes a [...]