hey yall... does anyone know how to get a good tone quality on your flute after having to play the piccolo for a pretty long while??? if you do could you please respond.
thanks much
kristyn

Depends on how long a long time is. But just practice as one of my band friends said its like riding a bike you never forget but you still fall. Keep trying it`ll come back. try loosening a teensy bit your "Pouf" and let your air rest more in the flute.

hey that whole riding the bike thing isn`t true. i used to ride the bike very well and now i can`t ride at all. but with the tone you want to keep practicing the low notes until your lips are loose enough to play regularly and still sound good.
at least that`s what i would do.

It sounds like you might not be used to switching from piccolo to flute. This is a skill flute/piccolo players need to learn. When you practice on your own, switch back and forth. Don`t start out playing anything difficult. Play long tones on the flute, switch to picc, play long tones, switch back to flute, and play long tones again. And etc. Once you thing you have the easy stuff covered, move on to harder things.

Just practice switching between the two, you will get used to the change. Piccolo will help your flute upper registers, however you will need to work on lower registers for flute to keep them up too par. Long tones are a great thing! boring, but nothing will help tone like them... then again, the question of "what IS good tone?" comes into play... and thats a stylistic preference... lol
-Andrew

hey sexy. I sure would like to help you out. when play these notes, blow with a thick stream of air: G, A, B, C(mid), and when playing these notes, blow with a thin stream of soft air: D, E, F. and for high notes C+, blow hard with a thin stream of air.

hope it helps.

a good tone is a tone where it`s pure, as in you can`t hear air against the mouthpiece.

My teacher made me blow into my flute for as long as i could. i would use the headjoint and blow into it, for as long as i could hold at the begging of the class. Try it!

for a good tone, you should try various positions of the flute. Move it up your lips if it`s a bit low, this helped me a lot. Also try rotating the headpiece.

a way to help you is to start playing your flute more on your
time (as well as the picc.) I play the picc. for marching band
pep band and for some of concert band. The hardest thing is
switching to your flute from picc and vis versus. In marching
band I didn`t play the flute for around 6-7 months and it was
extremely hard!!