Violin as first instrument, flute as a second?

[maggiethecat]

DD will soon be invited to apply for intrument training at school starting in Sep. She already does violin but has expressed an interest in the flute. Her permanent top front teeth have come through and others are making appearances.
Would it be ok to go for flute as a second intrument? Not sure if it will work well with violin training which I'm guessing will be her focal area.

If she is interested, I would encourage her. DH has a natural talent for music and has had since he was a toddler. He always felt it 'wasn't a proper job'and his parents did nothing to dispel this. At 34 he decided to go for it and is now a full time musician. We are very proud of him ( and so are his parents!)
I'm not suggesting hot-housing or pressure, just opportunity!

I agree with advice about learning piano as second instrument - particularly if you ds eventually does theory exams and goes beyond GSCE. Don't see benefit of doing two orchestral instruments. All my dcs have done strings and piano and they've complemented each other well. (eye wateringly expensive though...and that's with one instrument free at school)
Good luck!

I was very fortunate that although I struggle with rhythm, and sight reading, that my parents allowed me to try a number of instruments.

I could only get to grade 4, as beyond that you need theory exams, and had to have rhythm. I have grade 4 in percussion, violin, piano, saxophone and flute.

On the other hand, my sister, who doesn't suffer from my lack of rhythm, has grade 8 in both piano, and trombone, as she focused on these two and didn't want to learn other instruments.

IMHO I would say your dd is 7 years old, would love to learn another instrument, let her do it. Who knows if she's going to be in the orchestra when older, she may decide at 14, that she's having fun, and doesn't want to have formal lessons. So be it, give her the opportunity now, whilst she wants it.

I hear what you say. We were planning to buy a piano anyway since she was fiddling around on ELC keyboard. I'm inclined to let her try out flute just for the fun of it and see what happens (spoke with ex professional flute player yesterday and she said that she did not see any conflict between the two in terms of playing. On the other hand she said cello/violin as Gaelic has said would be a problem and a brass and wooodwind would not be recommended - it is reasurring to know that there should be no significant inherent difficulty between violin/flute).
I think she'll have fun anyway and that the more difficult decision will be if she has to make choices later on.