How to Love Your Flute: A Guide to Flutes and Flute Playing, or How to Play, Choose, and Care for a Flute, Plus Flute History, Folk Flutes, and More

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Summary: invaluable resource to flutists
Review: As a flute instructor, repairman, player, and director, I find this book, Mark Shepard's "How to Love your Flute" an invaluable resource to the flute community. It includes new aged techniques as well as classical ones, also folk flute. Tis is a great book.

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Summary: invaluable resource to flutists
Review: As a flute instructor, repairman, player, and director, I find this book, Mark Shepard's "How to Love your Flute" an invaluable resource to the flute community. It includes new aged techniques as well as classical ones, also folk flute. Tis is a great book.

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Summary: Glad to see this Classic Flute Book Back in Print
Review: I am a maker of traditional Japanese shakuhachi flutes since 1970. Mark Shepard's wonderful edition dates back to the early years of interest in ethnic flutes here in the USA. It inspired a lot of people and has had a "cult following" for decades. Along with his other books on flute construction, How to Love Your Flute has established Mark as one of the pioneers in the field.

Here at Tai Hei Shakuhachi ... we offer resources for folks interested in making their own flutes. I've received calls from people searching for this book even a decade after it disappeared. In no other book about modern woodwinds will you find thorough instruction and extensive knowledge combined with such insight and wisdom. I pushed Mark for years to get this unique resource back in print and am so glad it is readily available once again.

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Summary: Concentration on history - not methods for playing
Review: I purchased this book having played flute only once (very much a beginner). This book provides a lot of history about the flute but doesn't provide very clear and in depth instruction on how to play. So, if you are looking for an instruction book, this is not the one for you.

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Summary: Concentration on history - not methods for playing
Review: I've only been playing flute for about a year now, and I really enjoyed this book. It not only showed me new techniques and how to play by ear, but it also taught me about the flute and its history. It is an excellent price for such a good book. I definitely recommend it.

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Summary: my favorite flute book ever
Review: I've only been playing flute for about a year now, and I really enjoyed this book. It not only showed me new techniques and how to play by ear, but it also taught me about the flute and its history. It is an excellent price for such a good book. I definitely recommend it.