It has nothing to do with the fact that he can afford a nice flute. It has everything to do with his ENORMOUS ego. He is going around on the forum writing private emails to people and insulting them left and right. There is a lot more to this..

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For the record Leigh, I did not vote your post down. I think that your post was very insightful and we can all learn something from it.

These two women accused me of <<stealing other vendors flute photos and posted to pass as my own flute which I do not own!>> and <<they are sure they have seen the photos on ebay!>> this is a serious accusation!!! I then posted a youtube video immediately to show them I own the Sankyo Artist NEW flute! But they then said <<you have prove nothing>>, and then they Voted all my posts and my supporter's posts down to -7 so that no one can see them, and they vote their own posts to +4.

Is this your way of Adults educating your future generation? That you can accuse weaker or younger people anything as you like and then when you found out your accusation is groundless, you just blow them away, so that no apologies needed, wow, doesn't this remind us Iraq?

If the moderator feels it's alright, then why not just delete all my posts and leave their post on forever, since this is your forum after all.

You can only vote a persons posts down or up one time. I guess it wasn't just me that got irritated with your attitude.

Going around to my friends and bashing my flute playing on youtube only makes you look jealous and insecure. I do hope you realize that. I am going back to bed...

Kara, I don't know why we come to this....!! We were good friends on youtube until I posted a long post praising my Yamaha 211! You then just jump on me with your friends.

Your friend Suzie sent me a private message first, I explained to her on everything...and added:

"I knew Kara for a long time, she was my youtube video viewer and commenter for many years. She has good tones although without good skills."

And then I sent a copy to you on your youtube message. I did not going behind your back to say bad things about you, I copied the message to you! And I only sent it to Suzie! no body else, why you again falsely accuse me that I am send messageSSSS to your friends behind your back saying bad things left and right??!! You want to paint a bad picture of me again?

You have been critizing me on youtube and on this forum on my playing, why can't critize you in return? I actually mentioned your tones are good, commented to your video 100% positive, and messaged you several times to praise you. Why can't I say what I feel about your cracking notes, uneven passage notes, and sometime your C is +40 sharp?

I am not perfect, I am still a student, and you are not perfect but with a good tone. Let's critize each other and improve...instead of going mad at me!! Did I ever go mad at you when you critized my playing many times before?

If I offended you and made you feel unhappy with my private message. I am sorry. Let's be cool. No need to bring it to the forum.

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If you stop saying bad things again about me on this forum, then I am gone, never post again in my life.....bye.

pyrioni, you really need to calm down and lose the ego.

woo, you can play OK on a yamaha.
don't be such a cocky jerk

lol

Why can't I say what I feel about your cracking notes, uneven passage notes, and sometime your C is +40 sharp?

You can say it, but please keep in mind that I was play testing a brand new flute that I was not used to WITH a headjoint that was way too loose for it on top of everything. I did not put it up there for bragging rights as you do or to be criticized on my playing. I put it up there to see what people thought of the flute and for their opinions. I wrote in the title that I was play testing a flute. It wasn't my flute that I was used to. Besides, you are the only one that had said anything bad at all, the rest of my comments were all positive. Even a top notch professional that holds a position in a major symphony that posts on this forum had nothing but nice remarks. So please forgive me if I don't take a 14 year old's comments with little experience as the gospel truth. I can take criticism from a professional flutist who has a lot of experience and background to back up what they say, no problem.

You came on here for one reason. To talk and brag about yourself. You posted your videos to show off. That is not for the love of music. Where is your heart and soul and passion in your playing because I don't hear it? Vibrato? You are just a babe and are out of your element. Please take your ego else where as this is not the place for it. Without tone, emotion and heart in your playing you have nothing. You just end up being a highly trained robotic flutist.

Without tone, emotion and heart in your playing you have nothing. You just end up being a highly trained robotic flutist.

Finally, someone who understands good music! =]

There are so many robo-flutists out there. And flutists who brag, but not all are bad. If you put videos on Youtube, of course there are going to a range of comments. You just have to take things with a grain of salt. Some comments are from true pros, and some are from 14 year olds. All you need is a good mind, a big heart, and something between your ears. =]

i have a silver plate and prefer it to some of the nickel plated ones i have played.

"bashing my flute playing on youtube only makes you look jealous and insecure."

Hey vendor, helpful friendly saleswoman, look who's feeling insecure? My videos are still there and will still be there until the day youtube shuts down. But when I brought my professional friends to analyze your perfect videos that I was so jealous of, but videos are gone.

Friendly advice: your embouchure is too tight, that makes your notes crack all the time and many low notes unclean, also it makes your left hand notes sharp. Better start loosen your embouchure now or else as Pahud always put it "you will sound like this for the rest of your life!"

I fully accept all your every point of critiques with sincere thanks!!! Yes, I spent too much time on scales, etudes and technique trainings, trying to master my techniques before age 17 (Trevor Wye told us after age 17 our body will slow down, harder to learn good techniques, so better master all our techniques before 17), I am lacking musicality and vibratos in my playings is true. But music has to be learned in one's life time right, there is no hurry for me, after 17 I will learn all the music in a conservatory. For now I am a robo-musician.

Thank you all for your advice and critiques, it is those critiques make me improve and strong.

There is a saying in Chinese: "you can bully an old man, but never bully a poor kid, for the kid will become rich oneday"

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>"I wrote some Advanced Technical Exercises (Practise Book Six, page
> 12) while on holiday, and on my return, tried them out on victims of
> different ages as under:
>
> Two 15/16 year olds, Then six 18 year old first year students at the
> Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, Four Post -Graduate
> students aged between 23 -26.
>
> After six months daily practise, the youngest were playing these
> exercises at about twice the speed of the 26 year olds.
> Over the next 20 years, this pattern repeated itself over and over.
> Of course, there were some kids who were slower and some post grads
> who were faster, but as a general rule, it seems that you need to
> establish a technique when young, in fact before 'maturity' at the
> age of 16 or so, before the body begins the aging process. It's
> harder to acquire a good foundation after that. Not impossible.
> Harder. Athletics coaches know it well. My doctor friend told me,
> that ageing begins very slowly at about 17.
>
> So, the message reads, 'It's better to practise today than leave it
> until tomorrow'
>
> Sorry for the sermon, but I started playing at the age of almost 16,
> so I know! I can't write more. I need to do my scales.
>
> Trevor Wye"

When you have a clue what you are talking about THEN talk to me. I told you that it was NOT my flute that I was used to AND the headjoint was way too lose on it, that WILL cause cracking note. I took my videos down because they were only up there to begin with to get peoples opinion on 8notes to see what they though of the flute that I was trialing. So I cracked on ONE note! Give it a rest. I could go on and on about your many faults, but why bother? I have nothing to prove and don't need to put video after video up of myself on the internet. The only people that I have to prove myself to is the one's that hire me, not some little 12 year old. Playing flute is something I do on the side, I don't care what you think of my playing. Flute is not my life, I have more important things as an adult to take care of. You have just made a complete fool out of yourself once again.

By the way.. my videos are still up on youtube for friends to view. Sorry, you aren't on my friends list, so I guess you can't view them. Pity...