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Never Piano! -- Part 8

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Never Piano!

Part 8: The Other Side of The Story




The Never Piano story started on my journey in a string orchestra learning to play the violin. All of these happened about a year or so after I unsub from FFXIV. However, my music journey actually started much earlier, about a few months after my unsub. At that time, I signed up for a class at a local community college learning how to play the flute.

Before the violin, there was the flute.

Remember on very first day when I went to my violin class, the teacher asked me why I chose the violin? I said to him, “I think I am trying to run away from the flute”.

I think that pretty much summaries what happened. My first private flute teacher I mentioned in side story 3 was part of the problem. However, it is actually quite complicated.

I suppose, this time, maybe we should start with the flute side of the story.




The truth is even after I joined the string orchestra, I never complete quit the flute. Even during the time I was learning the violin, I still find time here and there practising the flute. I still have a teacher. Not the one who was trying to sign me up into her MLM, but I did manage to find someone much better.

Time, however, was the problem. With a full time job, housework, I have to find time practising the flute and the violin, going to class and attending orchestra rehearsal. Honestly, I don’t really have much of a personal life left.

At some point, it was quite clear to me that I really need to let go of something. It is either the violin has to go, or the flute has to go. If not, my job has to go. I would love to say unless god shows up in front of me make to choose one, I would be unwilling to let go of either of them. However, I think I was at my limit.




It was early 2019. I was about 8 months into my violin learning. In the orchestra, we were working toward the second concert. I was looking at the course catalogue of a local community college. They offer a wide range of courses, and I took a group flute class from them the year before.

In that particular college, there were two flute teachers. The one I took classes from, she specialized in Jazz music. Her class was fine, but I don’t think I am too keen on Jazz, and definitely want nothing to do with improvisation.

On the other flute classes, there was a name I have never seen before. I looked up this person’s name. It turns out that she cooperates with someone else that I attend a masterclass before in a local conservatorie.

Back then, when I was more interested in the flute, I went to a few master classes at local music conservatories. I did it totally out of curiosity. You basically walked in and observed a private lesson between the conservatorie students and a very famous flutist. The upside is, those classes are free. The downside is, very often these lessons for high level players hardly make any sense for me. Sure, we can always nitpick on someone else playing no matter what level they are. However, I will probably never play at that level. There is very little learning I can take away to improve my own playing.

All, except one masterclass with one very famous flutist, I managed to walk out with two things that are useful for me. Yes, even for a newbie at my level.

This new teacher in the community college is a frequent collaborator of this famous flutist.



I hesitated initially because my schedule was really too packed. However, I thought, if eventually I have to give up on the flute, let’s try a few things before calling time’s up. I signed up for the group flute class taught by this new teacher, Miss E.


Comments (3)

Siglinde Skysworn

Sargatanas [Aether]

As a teacher myself, I'm really interested to see where your learning journey with the flute went!

Sigurd De-mizar

Phoenix [Light]

Wow, Siglinde you teach the flute?

I like the flute a lot, however it is not easy to learn. A lot of things happen internally in the month or in the core, so it is often vague on what exactly going on. In contrast, violin movement is external. While it is quite clear, but you do need do a few things correctly all at once. The difficulty on violin is intonation. The difficulty on flute is tone production. I feel like playing violin is like driving a car, while flute is like riding a horse.

Siglinde Skysworn

Sargatanas [Aether]

Oh! I am not a music teacher, I know very little about music, hahaha. I teach math and science. However, whenever I see students talking about their teachers or professors I am always interested - what draws them to a particular teacher, what about the teaching style they liked, and what they view as important in a teacher, even if it is not my field.
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