Hello,
I received my Hamilton practice flute yesterday evening 
Very nice instrument and cheap price 50€
I have a question, how do you play:
…m…m… :roll:
[____o_O_o__o_o_o___°]
or like this
:roll: …m…m…
[°___o_o_o__o_O_o____]
It is not easy to have a sound…first octave d,e,f,g,a,b,c, I can hear something…
Second octave, nothing…D,E,F,G,A,B
Do you have any procedure to play it?
Thanks a lot,
A short, fun and good tutorial for absolute beginners can be found at the M&E flutes website:
http://www.irishflutes.net/mef/Tutor.htm
Check it out! 
If you play whistle right-handed (ie. left hand on top, closest to your face), your flute should be pointing to the right of you when playing.
Jens
Thanks for your fun link.
I am left-handed but I play whistle like this, left hand (down) right hand (up)…
I would like to play flute with same position of course.. my flute should be pointing to the right of me when I am playing, correct?? 
All the best,
I’m left handed and I started to play in a keyed flute, so I had to learn it in the way of right handed people.
If you play keyless instrument you can do it in one o the two ways, but if you want to play in the future keyed flutes I give you the advise of doing in the way of right handed people, so you could test any keyed intrument, because keyed flutes for left handed aren’t common. Of Course you can buy a new left handed intrument made by some makers.
Serafin.
I’ve had sort of the same problem as you Stef. I play the whistle with my right hand closest to the fipple and consequently I play flute to the left. The issue smoro mentions is existent. If you play left handed, you can’t try out other peoples keyed flutes, but you can still play keyed if you order a leftie flute. There are acctually lefthanded instruments from the 19th century as well. I’ve heard the Firth Pond for example made them. I now play whistle and wood flute left handed, and Böhm flute right handed and it’s no big problem with that. But if you as you say play the whistle right handed you should hold the flute to your right, it will be easiest. I don’t think that this is really a left vs. right hand issue, but more about what you are used to.
Cheers
In addition to the issue smoro brought up, you should be aware that on many of the high-end flutes, the embouchure is tweaked on one side to produce the best splitting of the airstream, and therefore the best tone. The other side may not be given the same treatment, so the flute will only be designed to play one way, usually to your right. Of course, these makers will be happy to make the embouchure for you to play the flute to your left if you ask, just as they will usually arrange the keys for a left hander, but it does again raise the issue of being able to try out different flutes.
On the other hand, one of the big-name players (is it Conal O’Grada??) plays left handed on a right-handed German keyed flute, and just somehow manages to use the keys anyway. Probably not something I would recommend that you try…
Steven
When I started out with cheap whistles 1.5 years ago I didn´t know (didn´t think) about left vs. right playing. Started out with right hand closest to mouth.
After been playing for some time I decided to buy a flute and wasn´t sure if I wanted to switch or if I wanted to continue with my “natural style”.
Today I receive my precious flute from Terry McGee and I ordered the keyless flute with an equal/symetric embouchure… i.e. both sides are identical so the flute can be played both ways with the same voice .
Don´t know if I will start to play it “the other way” yet, have to think about it. Really it´s most an issue when/if going keyed as mentioned by others here.
/Peter
I think you’re talking about Cathal McConnel, who plays (ifI remember) a right-handed Ruddal and Rose left-handed. So except for the player and the flute, you’re right . . .
I’m pretty sure Conal is a Hamilton man. Love his playing, and sound.
Well, think of it, the maker cut the embochure by hand and then fine-tuned it by hand, by playing it a little and adjusting, playing some more… unless he’s making a left-hand flute, he’ll make it right-handed, because that’s how he’s test-playing it. Even in Baroque flutes that have a simmetrical embochure, this will happen.
g
The Hamilton practice flute I have is very clearly right handed - the far end of the embouchure is cut away a little bit (probably to sharpen the playing edge) and the mouth piece is turned in by half the embouchure hole diameter.
I don’t know if Hammie makes the practice flute in a leftie version, but it won’t hurt to ask him.
About the awful hissing noises coming out of the instrument - don’t worry, keep on playing, take your time. Your lips and face muscles have to learn a lot of new stuff which won’t happen overnight.
cheers,
Sonja
With the flute it shouldn’t matter if you’re a leftie or a rightie, both hands do equal work. If you’re a leftie but hold the flute in the standard way, you will have an advantage in that your stronger hand is taking care of the single-handed rolls (A and B), which are hard for right-handed players.
Plus, if you play left-handed, you’ll have to have special flutes made for you with the keys on the other side, etc. Just play it the standard way.
g