wood flute

[cjsmith]

Went to the Sunnyvale "art and wine festival" (read: chaotic field of baby strollers) and came home with a wood flute. Pretty pretty pretty. I like its sound. I like its appearance, with dark brown toasted-wood etchings ornamenting blond maple. The one thing I don't like is the lack of a low G# or A; it can do an entire chromatic octave above those, but it has the low G, and the gap seems a little awkward. I'm having great fun with it. I can do several simple tunes and am learning to improvise a bit. Its easiest set of fingerings make a pentatonic scale, which is great for pretending that I'm at a pow-wow or that I'm just about to hear the accompanying Japanese drum join in.