You Know You Are An Irish Flute Player When....

Borderpiper · Post by **Borderpiper** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 10:14 am

When you practice your tonguing in the car along to flute CDs.

or when you manage to get a semitone scale out of someone's NHS crutches.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:32 am

Cathy Wilde wrote:As if playing the flute decently isn't hard enough .... you take up the uilleann pipes in a harebrained scheme to improve your flute playing.

At the very least it helps you feel much, much better about your fluteplaying.

River Otter · Post by **River Otter** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:39 am

. . . when you're tootlin' with skill for each sparkling quadrille, for the dancers are fluthered and bet.

Sillydill · Post by **Sillydill** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:26 pm

Had a wonderful dream where you were playing the flute and it sounded really really good. Then start to think you sound just like Micho Russell, then to wake up and realize you had fallen asleep with the WFO CD playing.

I thought I was finally improving!

phlute626 · Post by **phlute626** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:10 am

You can tell the temperature and relative humidity of your performance environment by the amount of "flute drool" on your pants, neighbor, and the floor.

You may not know what day it is but you do know the relative humidity in your makeshift humidor because that's REALLY important!

fel bautista · Post by **fel bautista** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:34 am

Cathy Wilde wrote:As if playing the flute decently isn't hard enough .... you take up the uilleann pipes in a harebrained scheme to improve your flute playing.

That's not hair brained! I play fiddle so I can put the tune into my head so I can get it out on my pipes.

So, now, I play both fiddle and pipes poorly.

ImNotIrish · Post by **ImNotIrish** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:38 pm

When you stop wondering if you're a flute player.

Jim Troy · Post by **Jim Troy** » Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:01 am

..... you end all your emails with , "A Tootle Air !" , to all your French trad pals

(and do a little hand spring , when they cop it )

dcopley · Post by **dcopley** » Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:36 am

You are standing quietly minding your own business. Someone looks at you strangely for a few seconds, tilts their head from side to side, and then walks up and tells you that your left shoulder is lower than your right shoulder.

Dave Copley
Loveland, Ohio

Jim Troy · Post by **Jim Troy** » Sun Nov 09, 2008 7:18 pm

you wonder if collagen would improve your embouchure instead of your love life...

ImNotIrish · Post by **ImNotIrish** » Sun Nov 09, 2008 10:01 pm

Jim Troy wrote:you wonder if collagen would improve your embouchure instead of your love life...

Good one!

pandscarr · Post by **pandscarr** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 5:07 am

You wonder if Botox would fix your wrinkles but ruin your embouchure...

Wormdiet · Post by **Wormdiet** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:21 am

- when your biggest monthly expense is gas for driving to the session with the guy that plays the Rudall

- When you take friends in the car, and when every 4th tune comes on over the Ipod, you exclaim "I've taken classes with this guy!"

- When you have a peace sticker on your bumper and a pistol case in the trunk, and see no contradiction.

rama · Post by **rama** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:19 pm

when they stop paying you to not play

joshD · Post by **joshD** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:01 pm

When you have a whistle for the red lights