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Making a serious go and improving my flute playing...
...so I've decided to grow a flute beard. Any advice on style or length to maximize my playing ability (ITM primarily), would be great appreciated. Right now, I'm on 3 days stubble and have only notice a slight improvement in my playing (not related, of course, to my recent increase in practice time).
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I too have started a flute beard. Mine has been growing about a month, and I've noticed some profound changes. Firstly, it makes me look older which has definitely improved my machismo which of course makes me play better. My new found masculinity allowed me to me take up yoga, which has improved my breathing and playing.
So from one month in my advice is to hang in there and let the beard take you where it may!
MC
So from one month in my advice is to hang in there and let the beard take you where it may!
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As J.P Donleavy wrote somewhere, the correct response to questons about why you're growing a beard is, "I'm not doing anything; you're shaving every day." And of course it's those extra minutes saved for practicing that make the real difference, eh? (For the record, I prefer close cropped for music & general appearance, though I've gone in the other direction without notable change in either.)
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From my POV, it doesn't matter as long as you have the little thing below the middle of the lower lip (I've heard it called a "J", although I think there is a technical term for it). If you sweat a lot, as I do, it provides a little extra friction, plus I've found it slows the development of "unsightly stains" around the embouchure hole of boxwood. I keep the J in the summer, full beard only in the winter. A hot vs. cold thing.
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Also called a "Dweezil" by some, apparently, although I've never heard it, nor "J". But I have it on best authority from Patrick Olwell (we were discussing quick-and-dirty solutions to my then-new blackwood allergy), and who am I to doubt him?Congratulations wrote:"Soul Patch"?chas wrote:the little thing below the middle of the lower lip (I've heard it called a "J", although I think there is a technical term for it)
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Dweezil works for me. Although didn't Frank have one first? Maybe we could just call it a Zappa.Nanohedron wrote:Also called a "Dweezil" by some, apparently, although I've never heard it, nor "J". But I have it on best authority from Patrick Olwell (we were discussing quick-and-dirty solutions to my then-new blackwood allergy), and who am I to doubt him?Congratulations wrote:"Soul Patch"?chas wrote:the little thing below the middle of the lower lip (I've heard it called a "J", although I think there is a technical term for it)
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A Zappa:chas wrote:Dweezil works for me. Although didn't Frank have one first? Maybe we could just call it a Zappa.Nanohedron wrote:Also called a "Dweezil" by some, apparently, although I've never heard it, nor "J". But I have it on best authority from Patrick Olwell (we were discussing quick-and-dirty solutions to my then-new blackwood allergy), and who am I to doubt him?Congratulations wrote: "Soul Patch"?
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