Yes, the flute is different than other instruments mostly because of how it is played (yes, you hold it sideways), but there is a special list of things that flute players know just too well when it comes to their instrument.
1. Trying other instruments and having to change to a different embouchure than the usual.
2. Parallel to the floor. Parallel to the floor. PARALLEL TO THE FLOOR!
3. If the piccolo is in tune, something good will happen that day after practice.
4. If the flute is held at an angle, all hell breaks loose.
5. It takes ages to get the flutes perfectly in tune.
6. Being asked if the flute is a piccolo.
7. Is it flutist or flautist?
8. Boys can play flutes.
9. If there is a male flute player, it can sometimes feel like Indiana Jones finding the lost ark.
10. The hellish sixteenth notes but then again what woodwind player wants to murder those notes?
11. Trying to show non-flutes how to hold a flute feels like trying to teach a dog how to write.
12 Did I mention if the flute is not parallel to the floor it's like summoning the demon?
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