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Flute and trumpet lessons

27 replies

Hopemore · 07/10/2013 21:49

Hi.

My 6 years old has been asking for trumpet lessons. I think this is because they do it at school at some point (not sure if it is in Y3 or 4).
Apparently she can't wait.
She also likes flute.

So I just want opinions if she is in the right age, if it is worth paying for private lesson for her to try out and where I can buy a flute for her to play at home (not a toy one). I have seen few ones on eBay, from Germany and China, but I am not sure if I should buy it or not.

TIA

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TheOneWithTheNicestSmile · 07/10/2013 23:25

agree about curved-head flute; younger children have very short arms!

you can get outfits with both curved (for now) & straight (for later)

DD2 started out with piano lessons at 6-ish but got stuck when it became more complicated - she then started flute at 7-ish & did very well with that (went up to Grade 7 iirc)

GoAndDoSomeWork · 07/10/2013 23:18

I think for both you need adult teeth front teeth to have come through. flute you need long enough arms although curved headjoint resolves some of this most 6 year olds would probably not be big enough. You could get her a plastic fife to start playing around on if she is keen on wind/ brass instruments and doesn't fancy starting on recorder. Otherwise she could start on violin and/ or piano to get her understand in musical notation and move on to wind/ brass instrument of her choice in a
year 5 or 6.