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I played piano, flute, and guitar.
Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.
I am classically trained in piano, flute, and voice.
I took up a few sessions online to learn to play flute.
The sarangi, the ney flute are pretty ancient instruments.
The tonality of the flute almost has a mystic element to me.
My father started me out on the flute and I began going to teachers.
I can play piano, classical flute, guitar, bass and I'm OK on drums.
Growing up, flute riffs was big in rap back then. It's what I listened to.
I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
Jazz flute's funny. And I'm a big Latin music fan, Tito Puente, Tina Cruz, all that stuff.
Basically, I like to pick up my flute, which is a pretty instrument, and play pretty on it.
I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.
I started off with the flute and French horn, and then I was playing trumpet in the jazz band.
Some people say 'flutist.' Others say 'flautist.' I just say 'flute player.' That's what I was.
I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.
When I was seven years old I played the flute, then by 11 I quit being a musician and got into Djing.
The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute.
It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.
I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer.
I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
I used to raise the devil when my father made me practice the flute and my mother made me take piano lessons.
Be it flute, piano or any instrument, there would always be a reason to bring in the particular feel into a song.
I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.
The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.
Bassoon is not an easy instrument to play and to pick it up and play it like a flute or a saxophone is quite an accomplishment.
Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'
I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
I also always carry my flute. It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.
Even back when I played 'straight-ahead,' I mixed it up. I played some free-form, classical adaptations, solo flute stuff. It was New Age in its own way.
I can play the flute. Music was my favourite A-level, and I used to love composing my and stylising my voice to sound like 90's singing sensation Tori Amos.
Hip-hop and jazz have always been intertwined. Even the G-funk thing. You listen to 'The Chronic,' there's flute solos and everything. It's always been there.
We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.
For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me.
You got to play the flute as a flute, like that. You can't play like a tenor concept on soprano; it sounds wrong. But some guys do it, and they think it's O.K., but not so!
My training in music has been very eclectic - as first a flute player from classical chamber music to jazz, Greek, Brazilian and African music to contemporary concert music.
Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining a flute and then making that sound materialize. That's easy!
I used to play flute and clarinet at school, and although I wasn't thinking about making a living or getting a pay cheque, I already knew I was going to play music all my life.
The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
When I was signing up for the University of Southern California's music program, I flipped a coin to decide my major. If it came up heads, it would be flute - tails would be voice.
The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.
I found that the flute was too limiting. Soon I bought a microphone, then loudspeakers, then an echo, then a synthesiser. Much later I threw the flute away; it was a sort of process.
Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.
I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
I am pretty sure when Kenneth Branagh came up for 'Thor,' nobody at Marvel thought, 'Yes, that Kenneth Branagh is masculine enough to do action: just look at 'Henry V' and 'The Magic Flute.''
My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can't be expressed otherwise.
Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
I don't really know the story of the Pied Piper. I don't read stories, first of all. I just remember either a rabbit or a rat leading people out of the village with a flute. That's all I can tell you.