Itchy nose?
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Itchy nose?
With the topic of allergies in another thread, I wanted to ask to see if any one else has experinced this. - After playing intensely for some time (maybe an hour or more) the end of my nose gets itchy. I don't think I'm allergic to blackwood, never had any problems with the skin rash. I've had the flute for over three years. It only happens after I've been playing for some time and goes away shortly after I quit.
Tom
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I've had that happen but only irregularly, and sometimes with metal flute as well.
I tend to put it down to something vibrating intensely (i.e. the flute) very close to the end of your nose, rather than any kind of allergy.
--James
I tend to put it down to something vibrating intensely (i.e. the flute) very close to the end of your nose, rather than any kind of allergy.
--James
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What he said.Alan wrote:I think my allergy is to recording as I almost always get an itchy proboscis right in the middle of what would be a decent 'take' and I rapidly become hebetudinous and abandon the endeavor. :x
And, I have no recording equipment, in part because I have an allergy to spending such money, a very real allergy, thank you.
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It happens when it's the most inconvenient, too: when there's no session to hide behind. So you try to tough it out and then your eyes start tearing up and rolling as if you're bound and gagged and weasels are eating your feet or something, and of course you can't thrash your head around too much for obvious flute-related reasons. So you go with spastically contorting your posture and everyone thinks you're "getting into it".
I'm thinking there must be a way to give the nose a quick scratch. I mean, we take the time for breaths, so one should be able to take a breath and take a quick swipe with one's beak at the flute to do the job at the same time. One can always discreetly clean it later if need be.
Although it sounds like a good idea, I'd avoid the embouchure cut. Those babies are sharp.
I'm thinking there must be a way to give the nose a quick scratch. I mean, we take the time for breaths, so one should be able to take a breath and take a quick swipe with one's beak at the flute to do the job at the same time. One can always discreetly clean it later if need be.
Although it sounds like a good idea, I'd avoid the embouchure cut. Those babies are sharp.
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Re: Itchy nose?
1) Perhaps noses could be sensitive things.Tjones wrote:With the topic of allergies in another thread, I wanted to ask to see if any one else has experinced this. - After playing intensely for some time (maybe an hour or more) the end of my nose gets itchy. I don't think I'm allergic to blackwood, never had any problems with the skin rash. I've had the flute for over three years. It only happens after I've been playing for some time and goes away shortly after I quit. :P
Tom
2) Perhaps the power directed into the flute could then be represented by a power radiating from the flute, @ Hz.
Could a sensitive nose detect that?
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Thanks Alan, for expanding my vocabulary. Now I need to find an opportunity to use it.Alan wrote:... hebetudinous ...
wordsmith.org wrote:hebetudinous (heb-i-TOOD-n-uhs -TYOOD-) adjective
Dull or lethargic, especially relating to the mind.
Thanks, Nano. Now I'll never look at weasels (or my feet) the same way again.Nanohedron wrote:... and then your eyes start tearing up and rolling as if you're bound and gagged and weasels are eating your feet or something ...
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