Flutes

Today, I started playing the bass flute in the Jozef Pauly Ensemble; a bass flute sounds one octave below the classical C flute, and needs a slightly different technique, as I discovered today. But that's not all...

The ensemble has two bass flutes, but both former bass flautists decided to stop playing bass and go back to playing the regular flute. Which got me the opportunity to try it. However, the ensemble has two different bass flutes, of completely different make and model (one is a silver/nickel flute in the regular curved form a bass flute usually has; the other is a polyester/copper flute with a different form). Apart from the fact that they're not regular flutes, both bass flutes have pluses and downsides: The silver/nickel model is easier to play on, but is more tiresome (because I have to hold it up, and it's quite a bit heavier than a regular flute). The polyester/copper one will require me to practice quite a bit more, but it's made to rest on my knee, so it gives my right arm a break.

I took them both home for this week, and will have to try both of them out before next saturday. Dunno which one I'll use yet...