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Re-acquainting Myself with My Flute
Tuesday, June 27, 2006I took out my flute after months and months of not even looking at it. I brought it all the way to Bangladesh and Singapore, where I was flagged down by these airport X-Ray guys and asked to explain what the heck was in that case which looked like a gun’s containing an object broken down in three pieces much like a weapon in storage, and most of all shiny and metallic. All that hassle, and I got it back to Manila undisturbed.
Now I open the case to see if I can cough out a few notes to jam along with this instrumental mp3 of Somewhere Over The Rainbow, to surprise Micah who once woke me up with a trumpet rendition of that song. I like that song, actually. And Micah’s trumpet never fails to waken me, with a smile I should add (can you imagine a trumpet blasting in your ear through a cellphone at 7am after having slept at 2am?). I suspect even if he’s playing a lullaby I would be wide awake afterwards.
So I thought I’d learn to duet with the instrumental’s violin melody. But no. I think it’s in the key of too-many-sharps, and I gave up too easily. Next up, Amazing Grace. Ahhh, that one I think I could play along with. I click it on iTunes and…
Success! The instrumental was beautiful (and in the key of no-sharps-and-no-flats, which is even more beautiful). A short two-and-a-half minutes of beautiful music. I can’t play the flute well, but playing with that mp3 made me feel like I was the best flutist in the world (or in the room — which is a small room, I should say).
It made me feel the words of that song in ways I couldn’t when I was just playing it as an accompanist. Something about playing the melody makes you want to sing from the inside out. Makes you want to burst from your lungs to your nose. I don’t know what it is, but it’s something. It must be a great feeling to be a soloist, a melody-maker, a pied piper. And for that brief two and a half minutes, I was one of them.
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