The Flute's Magical Music
Copyrighted in 1971 by the Zen-On Music Publishers Co. of Tokyo, Japan, the Takahashi Flute School (part of the Suzuki Method,) was designed to aid beginning flutists in their journey to become professional. It is set up as an individual practice method book, with obvious references to a needed listening source, but never gives one. Takahashi’s method is to teach fundamentals via elongated paragraphs and step-by-step instructions on how to properly handle, hold, and play the flute. This is followed by a very short section of exercises intended to aid in the text portion of the book. At the very end is a small fingering chart, for a reference of those notes new to the student. In my opinion, this book would not be a successful tool for a beginning flutist. The first half of the book is completely read-only, whereas Takahashi has assumed that by reading such the student will understand and formulate his/her own way of playing. For a student new to music, text-only is very difficult to comprehend, especially when there are words that both the child as well as the parent may not know. This is coupled by the fact that the original book was written in Japanese, so the translati
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Approximate Word count = 2192
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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