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.

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hey, cool! Tell him "mabruk" for me, would you?

Shokran!

Wow, Rondo hasn't had summers off? Yikes, summers off seem to be the best thing about an academic schedule. I'm glad he's getting the full strength of that benefit now!

Widad doesn't look bruised at all any more, and she's got a nice new set of teeth. :)

I'm glad! I don't blame her for being wistful about the originals either, but I'm glad she's smiling and talking and eating and looking fine and that she's all energetic enough to gripe at you for not eating her food. :-)