In fact, they do! Although I prefer to carry mine in my boot. Am considering a flute bag for the saddle dees, though, for on-board encouragment. Thus, if a gentle tap doesn’t work, I’ll just give 'em a loving little … polka! (GRRRRROOOOOOAAAAAANNNN)
I’ve heard Drowsy Maggie as a canter…
Would a polka be a collected trot?
Hmmm. Maybe an especially animated piaffe? Or passage?
Actually, my big green baby gelding basically polkas every time I put my leg on him! 
Oh no! Not one of those dressage people, with the funny pants, tall boots and those strange shirts!
Oh, you mean the stock ties!? Actually, those were originally designed to be used as arm slings or tourniquets in an emergency. See? Who says dressage is for wimps? 
Actually, I’m a shorts-and-muck-boots and zip-on-the-chaps-over-them sort of person. Although I have to admit those funny stretchy pants are getting more and more comfy the fatter and less-stretchy that I get! :roll:
The spouse just sprung for the streaky things! The jeans were not fitting in the new boots…
She’s gotten her legs quiet enough that spurs are on the list…
I’m thinking I could use a new flute, about Christmas, if this keeps up!
Denny
Congratulations to her! Getting your spurs is an accomplishment, esp. on big bouncy horses!
And to you, on your new flute: 'Cause you’re gonna deserve one, especially once the saddle business starts. You think we’re bad about Olwells v. Noys v. Grinters v. Whatevers? Wait 'til the Amerigo, Albion, Passier, Rembrandt, Barnsby and Theo Sommer, etc. pages in the Dover Saddlery catalog start being dogeared … 
Actually, it is funny – the money I’ve saved since I quit showing would easily buy me one of every kind of flute I could ever want! But nooooooooo, I’m pouring it all into a little farm with a lot of work and thus a bunch of lovely pasture-ornament horses instead … (what a doofus am I!)
spurs…it is! She’s doing well. They are mostly for the short wide blonds, Fjords. The thoroughbreds have enough forward in them.
She got lucky on eBay for the dressage saddle. (Passier-CB Folk) I’m hoping she gets as lucky with a jumper saddle, or not… I want keys.
'course the farm needs, too!
Denny
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This brings to mind the only problem I am having with the Burns. The sixth (D) hole is so small and smooth that my third finger sometimes gets lost. [/quote]
I had the same problem when I tryed the small handed burns flute at “Lark in the Morning”. The spacing is so different that my finger was landing about a 1/2" farther down the flute, on the ring… I don’t like the offset holes, I think that it would mess you up later, when you went to a standard straight holed flute. But it is a easy reach!
Jon
Thanks for all this great discussion on beginning flutes. I’m not a flute player yet, but am strongly considering buying one because as a whistler I’m not making it into the lower octave often enough for my family. I can only play higher whistles because of a deformity, unbeknownst to me all the time I was playing normal-reach instruments (clarinet and tuba don’t have these problems). I am having serious trouble with my new low D whistle because of double-jointedness in my fingers. My hands are at least average or even large, but it hurts to reach because the ring finger joints hyperextend.
Are any of you in this boat too? I’m considering buying a flute because I figure the horizontal aspect might give my fingers more of a chance for a natural curve. Advice, please!
Jennie