In short, yes, do some work on your finger position- sloppy is NOT good!- but don't go buy an open hole flute to do it. There are absolutely some folks who have a lovely light hold of the flute and delightful light, fast fingers on even an inline, open hole flute- but if you look closely at the flutes of many very accomplished players, they have plugged many of the open holes to facilitate proper finger position. This grip is not good for the flute's pads or adjustment, and is especially bad for the person's hands. (This is especially true with the left hand inline G key). Forcing a hand to conform to the exact placement of an open-hole key will often simply lead to the student gripping the flute strongly in order to seal the key to sound the note. Yes, you must have your fingers very light and fast, not gripping the flute hard, so you can play fast passages without getting a blurry, slurry mess of unidentifiable notes.īut simply using an open-hole flute won't get you there.įlutes are all pretty much the same size (in terms of the placement of the keys) but hands are not.
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