i have been playing the flute fo about 8 months, but i also want to start playing thr piano. if anyone plays the flute and the piano- please help me!!

what would you like help with?
the flute and piano are very different, but I suggest you do learn to play the piano, as it is a good skill to have if you intend to enter a higher learning in music (university or whatever)
I dont play the piano, and I really wish i had learned when I was younger. I find I have a disadvantage when it comes to theory, and keyboard harmony, and just general musicianship.
so if you have the opportunity to learn piano, do it now!

I play both, I suggest you to play flute for another year or so, until you can play every note (a low to high chromatic) within 10 seconds (i mastered it), don`t give up one easily. you can play both, they don`t interfere... i don`t know what you need help on.

i play both. I find the technique in playing piano far easier than flute, but that`s just me. Anyway, come back soon and tell us what you need help on.

well, i want to learn the piano at home, at least for now,
my mom says i shouldn`t start it, and i know she will not get me another teacher for private lessons(i have private lessons for flute), and i dont think she would buy me any books.(i have a keyboard to learn from at home).i do not know why she says that- she plays the piano a little bit herself, but wont teach me either!

Anyways,thanks for answering!

Maybe she wants you to get really good at flute first, so anything you learn in piano won`t get you confused. I remember my piano teacher telling me to keep raising my fingers because they`re not suppose to be flat like they are in flute.

maybe....

To focus on confusion issues is silly, unless you have an extremely low capacity brain.

Do your lips and tongue get confused over the processes of eating and talking?

nope...

I play both...I`ve played piano since I was 5 and flute since I was 8. I really don`t know what you want to know. Since you already play flute and know all the notes and how to read them, piano shouldn`t be too hard to start off with. (However, now that I`m getting into harder and more classical music, I`m getting pretty frustrated!) There are no fingerings or breathing to learn. Just imagine all the notes with the same fingering, and they all go in a certain order across the piano. I can see someone having trouble with the piano when it comes to the bass clef, though. The notes are in different places, and reading & playing two clefs at the same time could be difficult to someone who`s only used to one. I would suggest taking up piano. It`s a great thing to know how to play, and it makes other instruments easier to play. I hope I helped.

It`s also a great way to learn theory and chord structure, and if you ever intend to study music seriously at the college level, it`s a required core course. When I was an undergrad music major, we were required to take 4 semesters of class piano and pass a proficiency exam. The kids who studied piano prior to admittance had this requirement waived. They only had to pass the test

I`ve played the flute for 5 years and am grade 8 standard. I have also done theory. I took up the piano 5 months ago and i think that learning the flute has definitely given me an advantage to learning the piano, as i can read music easily and i do not find it hard to count awkward rhythms. For this reason, my tutor has put me in 4 grade 6 this semester. I would advise that you learn the flute for a year or so before you start piano, as it will give you an advantage, and learn some basic theory first. U will not find it so difficult if u do this. It is a good idea to learn piano, as it is very useful for composing, and, like someone else said, it is a neccessary requirement for conservirtoires (well, here in England anyway!)

I think that playing the flute is way easier but if you
already know the notes on your flute then the only hard thing
on the piano should be the bass clef because those are
different notes. On the treble clef the notes are the same on
the flute you just have to find the right key. I taught myself
how to play piano (currently working on Fur Elise) and I thought
that was better than having somone teach you because then you
don`t have anything due on a certain date. The easiest way to
start is to purchase a piano book that teaches you how to start
GOOD LUCK!!