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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
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On 17 Mar 2025 21:16:37 GMT
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> Luckily even in grade school if I wanted to play a flute I'd play a
> goddam flute with no remarks from the peanut gallery. I put it aside
> for decades, preferring stringed instruments, but an interest in tin
> whistle for Irish tunes led my to Irish flutes (wooden simple-system)
> and eventually to a Boehm system again. 

Love the sound of the flute as an instrument (from classical to your
Thijs van Leers,) but I never could get the hang of the embouchure.
Still need a lot of practice on breath control and fingering with the
recorder, but it saves me the trouble of having to deal with that ;)