Flute Lessons

Flute Lessons Just for You

This is what we do for over 35 years.

Music Makers Calgary is the perfect place for young kids, teenagers, adults and seniors to take Flute lessons. High qualified teachers ready to give you the best learning experience possible, respecting your own pace and ability.

All individual lessons are prepared to fit your needs, being that for deep theoretical understanding or just to learn how to play a specific music that you love.

Get in touch to learn more and schedule your first Flute lesson.

Benefits of Playing The Flute

Beyond the pleasure of it, playing the Flute is a lot more than just having a good time. Some studies across Canada and other countries suggest that playing the Flute can help with:

• Improves your breathing and lung capacity
• Improve memory capacity
• Enhances your coordination
• Improve reading and comprehension skills
• Exposes you to cultural history
• Fosters your self-expression
• Relieves stress

Greatest Players

• Marcel Moyse
• William Kincaid
• Julius Baker
• Jean-Pierre Rampal
• William Bennett
• James Galway
• Jeanne Baxtresser
• Emmanuel Pahud
• Gareth Davies
• Jasmine Choi

Construction

Can be made out of Bone, wood and metal.

A flute produces sound when a stream of air directed across a hole in the instrument creates a vibration of air at the hole.

The player changes the pitch of the sound produced by opening and closing holes in the body of the instrument.

To be louder, a flute must use a larger resonator, a larger air stream, or increased air stream velocity. A flute’s volume can generally be increased by making its resonator and tone holes larger.

Generally, the quality called timbre or “tone colour” varies because the flute can produce harmonics in different proportions or intensities. The tone color can be modified by changing the internal shape of the bore, such as the conical taper, or the diameter-to-length ratio.

Other sizes of modern flutes

• Indian flutes
• Chinese flutes
• Japanese flutes
• Sodina and suling
• Sring

History

35,000 years ago somebody was playing the first flute. With a V-shape mouthpiece and made out of vulture bone, this flute is also considered the very first instrument in history so far.

Was the Sumerian who first wrote about the flute in poems found on the tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, 2100-600 BCE. The babylonians were, probably, the first to write musical text, one of them named as embübum, Akkadian word for flute.

Indian culture and mythology also had the flute as an essential part of it rituals and storytelling.

The German Theobald Boehm, in 1832, greatly improved the instrument’s dynamic range and intonation over those of its predecessors, introducing keys in the instrument, which is also used in a variety of other instruments like Saxophone.