Bad flute-dream

Irish Flute
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Never snack out on channa masala just before bedtime…

I had a bad flute-dream last night. I had just received a new flute, and it was wonderful: all the keys were exactly in the right places for my funny grip, it was lightweight, easy to play, and it sounded fantastic. As dream-me was putting the headjoint and (fully keyed) footjoint back in the box, I glanced at the center section and saw that it had suddenly taken on the same curve as your average banana. Horrors! I snatched it up, dreamily, and immediately grokked that the moisture in the bore had made the wood go all wibbly, like a Gummi-flute. “But it’s cocus!,” thought dream-me, aghast. I squinted hard at the grain, my trained eye perceiving the telltales of cocus, and yet the flute was shockingly, hideously…bendy! AAAARGH!!!

Indian food aside, I believe I’m being haunted by the ghost of the fish-roll shakuhachi. Anyone else ever have bad flute-dream?

Rob

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And here I was expecting to read “This one time, at band camp…”

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I once dreamed of a gorgeous flute. After I woke up, I looked for it in my room. But it wasn’t there. :frowning:

I got that flute in the meantime, though. :wink:

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In a Woody Allen movie a woman at a cocktail party
says: ‘I finally had an orgasm but my therapist says
it’s the wrong kind.’

Allen says: ‘I’ve never had the wrong kind of orgasm.’

i’ve had flute dreams but no bad flute dreams.
They’re all flutes I want and I dream I have them.
For me, flutes are Christmas morning.

Enjoyed your guitar playing on the video you
kindly posted.

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What would Freud say about your flute dream?

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Sigmund Freud: "Sometimes a flute shaped like
a banana is just a flute shaped like a banana.’
From ‘Critique of Pure Drool,’. Auslang University Press,
1923, p. 887.

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Thanks, Jim. Glad you liked the bit of backing. At the risk of hijacking my own thread, there’s more of the same sort of thing here:

http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/comhaltaslive_206_1_denis_liddy

http://comhaltas.ie/music/detail/comhaltaslive_206_4_denis_liddy/

I should point out, going back to the dream, that the worst part wasn’t the banana-esque curvature of the dream-flute, but the feeling of the bore collapsing between my fingers. Aside from the fish-roll, the other possible source of nightmare-fodder involving bore constriction was a conversation I had with Pat Olwell regarding thin-walled antique flute tenons and over-tight applications of stretchy thread, with predictable results. Not that I want to discuss that in this thread (no smart remarks now), but isn’t it funny how bits of real life get twisted in the dream-world?

Rob

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Perhaps some Pakistani “Irish flute” makers snack on this during their work breaks …
:laughing:

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Nothing that one of those spam ads for C*allis or whatever won’t fix up!! :party:

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Good idea…maybe take a tablet, cut it up, and mix it into my bottle of bore oil. Oh wait, it was only a dream. Saves me answering any spam.

Rob

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THIS IS CRAZY!! I love to cook indian food. You should sample my masoor daal. I have this dream all the time that my flute goes limp. I pick it up and it just flops like those clocks in a Dali painting. I swear this is true! The funny thing is, is that in my dreams, I can still play the floppy flute.