taps

No, not the bugle tune.

How often do you use taps, as opposed to cuts, to separate two notes? Are there instances you find tapping particularly appropriate or inappropriate?

For instance, in Bonaparte Crossing the Alps or the Rhine (or other European geographical feature of your choice), in the first phrase EFG|AA, is it more appropriate to separate the two A’s with a cut or a tap?

Funny you should ask. It occurred to me this past week that I’m probably under-utilizing taps, in favor of cuts and rolls. I’m a newish player, and just really never made a point of working on taps very much.
Now that I’m making a point of adding them in, I like my sound a lot better.

I’m a habitual tapper. Call me Fred Astaire.

Turn on the taps (but no floods here, please!) and see if you can cut it without cranping your style!!!

berry funny :smiley:

Denny wrote

berry funny

Did you mean “berry punny”?

That gush of puns was OTT. I apologise and promise to drip feed them only in future. There’s no need to faucet.

I’ll pipe down now before I’m all washed up and drained out.

To separate two notes of the same pitch, I’ll usually use a cut instead of a tap. As an articulation between two different notes, I’ll use a tap if I have to put more fingers down to play the second note. If I have to take fingers off the flute, I’ll use a cut.

Viz. the first bit of the “Mossy Banks:”

gedB {tap}G3A|BA{tap}GB AE{cut}GE|