#1Flautist or Flutist?

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#2When the top octave is too sharp and bottom octave is too flat

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#3Sitting next to new pic-colo players

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#4When none of the flutes in the band are in tune

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#5When you can’t make a nice sound with an empty stomach

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#6When look down on 2nd flutes just because they think that it is such an easy part when it is not

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#7When the most exposed part of the piece is the most complicated part

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#8Tuning the piccolo

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#9Composers believe that flautists don’t need to breathe

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#10When band directors expect perfection right from the start

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#11Being part of the most hated instrumental group

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#12That moment when you think it’s the end of the world straight after dropping your flute

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#13Chapped lips

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#14When everyone com-plains that the piccolo is too high when you are playing as written on the score

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#15When someone sitting next to you presses a key on your flute white you are playing as a joke

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#16Flute and piccolo play-ers are playing too loud that they can’t hear what they are playing

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#17You cannot make a nice sound on both piccolo and flute when doubling because your em-bouchure gets messed up

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#18Tuning.

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#19Having spit on clothes and have a round wet patch

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#20When a non-flute player air flutes and you feel the urge to correct their hand positions

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#21When you’re the only person who cannot flut-ter tongue and everyone else shows off

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#22When you don’t have a B-foot and the piece wants you to play low B

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#23Jumping from high to low registers in the mid-dle of a fast run

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#24The price of gold flutes

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#25When the composer gives you one bar at 120bpm to switch from flute to piccolo

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#26When the principal flute chair is several years younger than you

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#27When one person who is slightly out of tune makes the entire section (or band) sound horrible

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#28When you have to play a top A in pianissimo

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