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(feadog41)
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Just the facts, maam. You`re 32 and I`m guessing you`re happy with your career choice. You`re not hoping to become a pro musician, but you would like to re-kindle a hobby from your past that, for whatever circumstance, didn`t get a very good start. You smoke...and if you smoke in Turkey, then you`re getting the very best(?) that tobacco can offer...
All silliness aside, I would suggest either the flute or the whistle...yes, the penny whistle. Can I also assume that you are British?? My god maam, but you`ve got a vast MOUNTAIN of of traditional acoustic and Celtic music right at your back door!!! Buy an old style Rennaisance or Baroque flute with open finger holes and not too many keys! (Or buy a modern flute for a few hundred pounds!) I`ll bet you can get a really nice fipple flute (penny whistle) for between 5 and 7 pounds. You can pick up a whistle or recorder fingering chart at any music store. Then, if you take the time to learn to read music, you can play ANY TUNE YOU WANT! Jigs, reels, hornpipes, strothesbies, aires...you name it: Music for flute, fiddle, bagpipes, or any of a zillion traditional instruments is all inter-related! Because at one time or another, most of it came from the same place.....GREAT BRITAIN! Here`s my last plug---take a look at my screen name..."Feadog" is one of the best makers of Irish penny whistles EVER! I have had more fun and made more cash playing a little feadog whistle in "D" than any other musical instrument I own. Finally, as far as the cigaretts go, don`t buy into the hype that because you smoke you can`t play the flute. It`s not my proudest memory, but for twenty of my adult years, I smoked like a furnace and played as a professional musician, all the while amazing audiences with my vast reserves of lung and diaphragm support. I eventually quit because I got tired of smoking. Anyway, I hope this helps{FLUTE} and I certainly don`t want{FLUTE}to steer you in any {FLUTE}direction based on my{FLUUUTE}experiences.
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