FAQs

Raising your musician requires a long-term emotional/financial commitment 

Benefits of Renting

• Practical way to determine child’s interest in the instrument
• Convenient pay-as-you-go contracts
• Short-term contract that may offer rent-to-own as an option
• Repair/theft covered if renting from local stores

Renting Downsides

• Monthly rental fee may have extra/hidden fees. Ask
• Rent-to-own may be more money in the end than purchasing
• Used flutes need specialized cleaning supplies
• Be sure to review vendor’s Better Business Bureau rating

Benefits Of Buying

• Can be costly up front, but may be the preferable choice
• Better quality instrument in top condition
• Gives child a greater sense of commitment/pride.
• Parents take a greater interest in child’s development

Buying Downsides

• Can be expensive long-term commitment needing upgrades
• Switching instruments, becomes expensive to buy another
• Most new instruments loose resale value

Student Frustration Factor

• After initial excitement fades, basic things may seem difficult.
• Frustration can dissuade children from going further.
• Pushing through this period are signs they can commit long-term.

Proven Support Systems

• Ensembles (friends pursuing similar interests) help sticking to it
• Parental support helps balancing fun exploration and rigorous discipline.

Is My Child Too Young To Start?

• It is easier to teach children when young
• By doing so, they reach the enjoyable phases of music mastery sooner.
• Inspiration and passion produce commitment.

These Proven Acts Trump Age

• Supportive home environment
• Listening to music. Seeing others play. Going to concerts
• Big-picture vision (what music can lead to in artistic beauty and/or career)
• Determination of commitment (stick to it potential)

Flute Difficulties

• Blowing
• Difficult to hold for small children (arms not fully grown)
• Only comes in 2 sizes

Recorder As Stepping-Stone Instrument

• Easy to blow and hold; lightweight
• Durable, inexpensive
• Fingerings transfer easily to the flute
• Only 3-6 months before transferring

Safe To Buy Signs

• Child is self-motivated
• Shows excitement. Explores instrument on their own
• Child’s potential benefits outweigh financial risks.

Deciding to Purchase?

• Get valuable model/purchase advice from lesson teacher
• Teacher works with trusted flute brokers getting best price.
• Instrument certificate guaranteed against factory defects.
• Teacher checks out flute in your lesson before you buy
• Try Before You Buy! Never buy from the Internet

ENJOY THE MUSICAL PROCESS WITH YOUR CHILD

HAPPY FLUTING!

• Increases the capacity for memory, sharpens concentration
• Aids in coordination of motor and comprehension skills
• Promotes listening skills and breathing
• Produces alpha waves soothes and calms
• Refines time management and organizational skills
• Builds commitment, responsibility, discipline, perseverance
• Boosts team and social skills and personal confidence
• Exposes to art and cultural history
• Gives sense of achievement
• Elevates performance skills and reduces stage fright

• Call us flute-player or flutist but not flautist!
• Call us flute-player or flutist but not flautist!
• The word origin of flutist is from French flûtiste, older than the word English flautist, which came Italian flauto.
• Flutes are one of the earliest instruments and mentioned in the Bible.
• The flute is the closest instrument to the natural singing voice.
• Flute sizes from piccolo, C flute, alto, tenor, bass and contrabass flute.
• Piccolo and the C concert flute are the highest pitched instruments.
• Flutes are made of bone, wood, glass, ivory, plastic, resin, brass, nickel silver, silver, gold and platinum.
• Theobald Boehm helped create the modern flute between 1831 and 1847.
• King Henry V, Napoleon, King George III, George Washington, Quincy Adams, James Madison and Leonardo da Vinci, Caruso, Mancini, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Alan Poe played the flute.
• As the most popular instrument, millions of flute-players are in the world
• Here’s a cool link to show the mechanism of the flute!

Whenever you write a poem or story, class essay or draw artwork, your original works of authorship are protected. As a creator, you have the right to let or not let others do the following:

• Make copies or distribute your work
• Perform your work publicly
• Display your work publicly on Internet or television
• Make adaptations or new uses of a work, or translating

A Legalities Lesson

• In general, it is illegal for anyone to do any of the things listed above without the composer’s permission
• Exceptions/limitations to your rights as a Copyright Holder are in Fair Use (Copyright Act of 1976) codified in Title 17 of the U.S. Code.

Why Should I Care About Copyright?

• Gives rights preventing people copying and doing things with artists work
• Allows musicians to get paid for the wonderful music we enjoy.
• Respects artists rights to control what people can and cannot do with it

Which Works Are Protected by Copyright?

• Recordings, Musical works, including any accompanying words
• Literary works (includes computer software)
• Dramatic works, (including accompanying music)
• Pantomimes and choreographic works
• Pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works
• Film and other audiovisual works
• Architectural works

Which Works Are Not Protected by Copyright?

• Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, discoveries, or devices, (but written or recorded descriptions, explanations, or illustrations of such things are protected)
• Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans; mere listings of ingredients or contents (some titles and words might be protected under trademark law)
• Un-tangible forms of expression: improvised speech or performance that is not written down or otherwise recorded
• Works of information commonly available, containing no originality