Thanks guys, that helped a lot.

Dotted Quarter Note, please accept my apologies, I had you mistaken for someone else, and I am sorry for my rudeness towards you.

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Being from the UK, Most people usually start off on closed hole flutes and then move to open hole when they get more advanced. I have played on both and hear no differnce in them, the only advantage of open hole is the larger array of extended techniques but not everyone wants to play crazy music. It just comes down to personal prefernce a really.

I started out on a closed hole, but then switch to open. I think that once you learn to play open holed that it will be hard to go back to closed. I own two open holed and they are more difficult to play since you have to cover the hole completely, but once you learn. Oen Holed is my prefrence.

"...I think that once you learn to play open holed that it will be hard to go back to closed...."

Definitely not the case for me, as explained at the end of my last post.

Hi Jerema, I haven`t seen you in a while on here, nice to see you back.

I can`t imagine why anyone would think a closed hole flute would be harder to go back to??? If anything, it would be easier.