A Little Day Music

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Buying presents for people is not my shtick. Besides, it's against my religion:

14 Jesus said to them, "If you fast, you will bring sin upon yourselves, and if you pray, you will be condemned, and if you give to charity, you will harm your spirits.
When you go into any region and walk about in the countryside, when people take you in, eat what they serve you and heal the sick among them.
After all, what goes into your mouth will not defile you; rather, it's what comes out of your mouth that will defile you."

http://users.misericordia.edu//davies/thomas/Trans.htm

Docetic Christianity is the religion for misers like moi. That why I consider myself a Gnostic. It is because I am is gnosy. I am is always sticking his nose in other people's business. How can it not?

Buying presents for myself is another matter. As much as I detest using my debit card on the internet I couldn't refuse buying myself another flute. It's the flute of my dreams. How could I-am-is not? I've been living without a flute for several years now, and life is not as good without me having one within reach.

So how, you might ask, can this new flute you just ordered and paid for be described as "the flute of my dreams"? Because nothing moves. It only has a blow hole for the embouchure, and six holes for the fingers. It can't be tuned. Any sound that emerges from it happens because of the way it is played. It is made of glass.

http://hallflutes.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Product_Count=2&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=0204&Category_Code=A04

This is the company that makes the flutes from Pyrex glass. I didn't buy it from them because I bought it cheaper at a big online music company that might be able to protect my CC info mo' bettah. Besides, they had it in stock and they ship it free.

There is no telling how long it will take to get here. It won't be as long as it took me to decide to let go the cash for it. I'd like for it to get here tomorrow, but I suspect they are shipping it through the USPO, and that could take weeks.

I get a lot of attention when I play the flute. I had a wooden recorder I used to take around with me in my ruck sack. I wouldn't play it in front of people, but would get off to myself and that would sometime cause people to find me. That's much better for me in general because I am is a counter-puncher.

Having played several different sorts of wind instruments that only made sound when I blew into the end of it, began to wonder if getting a proper flute like they use in orchestras and marching band would suit me better. I resolved that curiosity by buying a used student's flute at a pawn shop.

It was everything I'd dreamed of. If I pressed down the pads on the right combinations of holes it made the sound I had already heard in my mind. I guess I sorta have perfect pitch. At least enough that instruments that are not in tune irritate me when other people are playing, but not much when its me playing.

Not liking to tune instruments has not served me well with the occasional musician I play with. My carelessness gets all over them. Some get mad enough at me they never willingly speak to again. That's why I need to play an instrument that don't need to be tuned or retuned every five minutes because of the humidity in the air.

My digital piano never needs tuning. No one has ever complained. Nobody has ever heard me play it. This Pyrex flute may be different. The information about it that came my way only says that it was engineered and an cast with exacting precision. The sounds that actually come out of it is probably a hit or miss deal.

If the flute I ordered comes from the factory with a good tone, me and the people who hear me play it will probably never question whether it's perfect in every possible way or not. If it even comes close to being somewhat in tune I'll be happy. I just like to have a wind instrument around.

The student flute I had was made by Yamaha. I say "had", but I still have parts of it laying around here and there. I messed up the pads when I tried to clean it up, and when I tried to replace them I lost a couple of the teeny tiny screws that held it together, and the new pads didn't fit, and I got discouraged and left it be.

If I could afford it, I'd buy another classical flute just to have it around. I'll probably be satisfied with this glass flute for the purposes I play a flute for. Every flute and piccolo these people make are less than $100. The average orchestral flute runs at least $4000. Beyond my present means.

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