Why I started to play the flute

My first introduction to the flute was attending concerts at my older brother's High School. At 10 I thought the girls (and sadly it was the stereotype) who were playing "Annie's Song" were the height of sophistication...and when I got to high school I was going to trade my recorder in for the flute. Sadly the woodwind teacher retired the summer before I was due to go up to High School and it never happened....25 years later...I bought myself a flute and started having lessons:)

I played the recorder from the age of 9 and then came my 13th Birthday parents asked what i wanted after trying to get a note out of my cousins flute the easter before. I went to a local music shop and found they had a second hand flute started lesson and then my 18th Birthday got my second flute and now i have 3 plus my piccolo. Who would have thought some 23 years later still playing

When I was a child, my parents wanted me to play clarinet so that's what I did. When I had my 40th birthday I wanted to try something new. I was sitting in the audience at a classical concert and I saw the shiny silver flutes and I knew then that I wanted to learn to play the flute. Although I like the sound of a wooden flute, I still love the silver shine of a metal flute. Here I am 6 years later, studying for Grade 7!

I actually wanted to play the oboe. I have no idea why! I just thought it'd be fun.
I was 6, and had tiny hands so Mum talked some sense into me and I got flute lessons.
I'll have been playing for 12 years in September!!

When we were at Primary school (year 3) we were told this is a flute, this is a violin, and this is a clarinet, having helpfully got some year 6's in with their instruments. You can play the flute or the violin now, or wait until year 5 to play the clarinet. You can imagine what beginner violins often sound like, so I chose the flute. Haven't got the slightest regret though.

I decided that I wanted to play the Flute after listening to my Nanna's James Galway CD at about age 6, after several years of persuading my Mum and Dad I started when I was about 9 - at that point we didn't know about curved headjoints and fifes - I had previously played the recorder but I always found it difficult because my fingers were too big.
I don't regret all that persuading and a massive thank you to Sir James :)

I started playing the flute in yr. 3 when we all had the option of starting violin, oboe, trumpet or flute. I hated the sound of the violin and i can't stand the trumpet and the flute looked really majestic. My teacher was dreadful though so when i was in yr. 4 i found a new flute teacher. I'm now in yr. 7 have played the flute for 5 years(but my first year was awful) and have done my grade 5!!!

I started playing the flute 2 years ago in september.I started playing the flute after my sister got a new flute and the shop sent her old one back because they couldn't sell it so I thought I might give it a try.I really enjoyed it so I tought myself a most of the notes and then started lessons.

Have just discovered this lovely website, congratulations to everyone who makes it happen! Guess I'm the oldest one here - I started playing flute at 28 [having scraped a violin at school]. I stopped and started when life and kids got in the way and took it up seriously last year, doing Grd 6 & 7 Trinity. Now I'm just about to face up to Grd 8 at the age of 50! So fingers crossed...

I am Surpised I only started flute 3 years ago and now I am doing Grade 7

I was four and I went to a school concert my brother was playing in. I was really bored and was trying really hard not to fidget. I remember it vividly! A girl came on stage with a flute and I was fascinated -I thought it was shiny and pretty. She played Morceau de Concours and I was transfixed. The obsession began!! I hassled my poor parents relentlessly to let me learn, but they couldn't find a teacher that would start me so young. I was given a fife (& cried!) and begrudgingly started the recorder. Just before my 7th birthday, I had my first lesson and was given my first flute (Tooty!!).

I joined the Recorders Club at School when I was six and my passion for music was born. I knew I would like to go on and play something else but I wasn't sure what to play. I went to my School Music Concert to listen and decide. As soon as I saw one of the girls pick up her flute and play I knew the flute was the instrument for me. I started lessons in September 2008 on the fife and got my flute in April 2009 and have loved every minute since.

i wanted to play recorder but kept getting flute and recorder names mixed up, so when my mum asked me what i wanted to play i said the flute. I've never regretted that mistake!

you can call me werido if youlike because I also play otherinstruments they are:
Piano Gr4
Descant recorder Gr2
Treble recorder Gr1
Harmonica
tenor recorder
guitar Gr2
Oboe Gr6