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Call Carolyn and schedule a meeting with her. When I bought my Miyazawa, we spent three hours non-stop for me just to try flutes. I think I played on more than 20 or 30 different instruments before I decided which MODEL I wanted, then I played on like 4 different versions of that model before I found MY instrument. And Carolyn is a goddess at fixing instruments. So I would follow the advice of her teacher.

Honestly, I wouldn't buy a Pearl. They are sturdy instruments, but there are FAR Better flutes out there. Go to www.flute4u.com That's the website for Carolyn Nussbaum's flute shop in Plano, TX. That's where I got my concert flute, and it's my baby. =] I haven't played on anything better in my life. Some of the top brands I'd look at are: Miyazawa (I have the Miyazawa Classic... expensive, yes, but well worth every dollar) Jupiter Trevor James (These flutes used to be CRAP! But they've cleaned up REALLY nicely and are extremely nice for the price) Miramatsu (Not as nice as the past three, but still pretty nice) Powell (Our flute player that was first chair for the last 3 years played on one of these, and it had the most gorgeous tone I've EVER heard out of a flute) Those won't do you wrong! They are pretty pricey... but Carolyn usually has used instruments that are almost as good as new, some even better than new, for like half the price.

GRANDMAS! No doubt! Movies on Friday... should I watch The Hulk or The Happening???

was gone from the site for the longest time! Welcome Back!

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My four years we did Corpus first, San Antonio 2nd (my least favorite trip personally...) Galveston was Jr. Year and this past year we went to Washington DC. It was awesome. =]

Uh... major change for me. I'm only going to be at UNT for a semester now, then I'm going to try to transfer into Georgetown, George Washington or American Universities. I've changed my major as well from music comp./ed to political science and pre-law. It's weird to think I'm not doing music anymore though...

Yay! John Mackey has joined the crew! Awesome! I still have yet to hear a live performance of any of his pieces... but I'm going to change that as soon as possible!

I heard that Marcus is still doing a themed esque show like they have been... but not the cheery Marcus show we are used to... Maybe Bell and Marcus will switch places on ideas??? That'd provide for an interesting competition!

AND Rush Hour. Most amazing string quartet EVER written.

probably thinks the best instrument there is a percussion one... which would make her incredibly mistaken. =]

doesn't know what instrument lhsFLUTEr plays. =]

AWESOME!!!! My hero!!!! lol.

had a baseball team playing in the play-offs... I actually saw part of the game on tv. lol

was bi-sectional for a brief period of time.

that's very ambitious thinking right there... I looked at our football schedule and it's going to be harder next year than it was this year. I think our football team has it in them to do well next year, cus after all we DID beat the first place team in district by over 30 points... Anyways, for 5A band, I would have said that I could expect to see Mansfield Timberview making top 5 at least in Area B next year... but then they moved to 4A... =[

has a name that relates to playing trumpet, but has a picture of him playing the saxophone...

It's invisible!!! What should I eat???

Our last concert was last night. It was perfect. =] We played Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral as our last song and it ends at like quintuple forte (or at least, our version did. lol). It was so loud and it was just perfect... like in-tune and balanced and everything. As soon as we were done playing a guy in the audience was just like "WOAH!" hahaha. it was the most memorable concert I've had, and I'm glad my band career ended that way.

Our final band concert it tonight. Sad to think that I'll never play my instrument again... =[

So I went to our guard clinic for next years girls. There were I think 40 girls signed up!!! Only like 5 returning girls, but there are one or two future freshmen that have quite a lot of potential. Sadly though, our luck always leaves us with less than half the girls in guard at the end of marching season that originally signed up. I'm thinking we'll have about 15-20 girls next year.

Haha, Ironic... What's the music? If it's "Bells For Stokowski" I think that makes it three years in a row that "Bells" gets performed on a marching field... first Rowlett I think, then us and then James Bowie.

Rumors about our marching show are starting to circulate... It's interesting what I'm hearing, but I'm going to keep them to myself for now until I have a confirmation about them. Let's just say, they really really really really have me excited, and I'm not even going to be there next year. =]

Our Final Concert is NEXT THURSDAY! the songs are: Concert band: I Am And I guess two other songs? not sure. lol. Symphonic Band: Amazing Grace Symphonic Dances No.3 and another song that I can't remember at the moment. Wind Ensemble: Four Scottish Dances Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral Vivification Bach's Fugue a La Gigue a random Prelude by Bruchner Finale from Ticheli's Symphony #2- Apollo Unleashed It's going to be another insanely long concert!!!! We just got back from our trip to Washington DC. The trip was AMAZING. =] Results: Concert Band: Best in Class Sub-Non-Varsity, 3rd Place Non-Varsity Symphonic Band: Best in Class Non Varsity Wind Ensemble: Best in Class Varsity and Contest Grand Champs.

Signs scares me... I hate aliens. lol. But the music to that is actually pretty cool. I think it'd make for an interesting show.