Woodwind Flutes Classical Bamboo Flute Musical Instrument Chinese Traditional Dizi Transversal Flauta For Beginner (C Key)

Um, you get what you pay for. I'm a tin whistle player so this is a bit different for me,I ordered the Car, did my research on keys and fiddled around with tuning it but no matter what I try I cannot find the right key, nothing matches with it, not in Control or the starting note G. Buuut for the price it certainly looks pretty. Still it's good practice.

I'm just getting into Dizi flutes and this was my latest acquisition of the five major keys. I began with the C and then got a G to actually get better before trying the C again (I can play my C bamboo flute now, but I like the D better, and bought a $90 one of that key after trying a cheap $20 one.)So, having bought and played 6 Dizi flutes and 3 Xiao over the last two months I can compare this to those.This is the 3rd one for cheapest, I paid $20 or less for each, and this one is better than those. Much nicer looking too. This one looks great and feels nice, wouldn't think it's only $20 from just that, but it plays better too. The Nicoshine one I bought in D key before I decided to feed the bear and buy a good one, (choosing that key for my main preference essentially,) and both it and my cheaper G both look like mass produced plastic things, even though they are bamboo. The silk thread ties aren't going to win any prizes and the basic overall impressions are you could buy them at Walmart in the toy section.Those mass produced ones are harder to play, with machine drilled finger holes, barely touched by a tuning knife to get a basic overall 'In Tune', however a lot more needs to go into the tuning of each hole, and this is what sets the most expensive Dizi flutes apart from the rest. A Master Tuner will adjust each key hole to each playable octave, helping to prevent the harmonics from the other octaves from bleeding through- for example playing the second octave up and hearing the lowest octave note too, mixed in with the one you're trying to play. For a beginner this is double trouble because you don't know if it's your technique or the flute.All that said, the other two cheap ones bleed horribly above the first octave. I struggle with keeping my air tight enough to keep from playing both tones constantly. This one is not as bad by half, but it does bleed a little, definitely more than my $90 D key Dizi. It looks like the flute was tuned before being painted, and the paint is in the finger holes, coating the inside edges. Makes for a nice appearance but I suspect it will have an effect on that combined tones issue. I don't have the skills to fix it so I'm going to go with what I have.I would have given it 4 stars if it was $30+, but for $20 the value went up to 5.I recommend this one for you, as long as you can already play flutes and can trust your air technique. Might be a bit difficult for a very new beginner to learn the mouth blowing part. Ohh and the thing came with a ridiculous whistle mouthpiece/dimo shield for your chance to laugh at. A cheater mouthpiece for a bamboo flute. Why not buy a regular whistle like the tin/Penny whistles the other guy talked about? Makes no sense to me.P.S. the Dizi are keyed to the Major Keys, the five most popular from longest to shortest are the C, D, E, F, and G. Most of the music is in G notation online, but it doesn't matter because Dizi work on the Do Re Me Fa So La Te concept, meaning Do on one flute is Do on all the rest in the same spot. The fingering number system is crazy in my opinion, fingering number #1 is three fingers closed from the Head, two fingers is #2, the only one I agree with, one finger is #3, and 4 fingers closed from the Head is #7.🤦‍♂️You need to watch some YouTube videos. And they send a fingering chart with the flute. I recommend using tape at first instead of dimo for first timers. Just as the flute can confuse your technique, so can the Dimo if it's having a bad day.I watch YouTube videos for learning songs. Some have the fingers of the performer displayed. This is the main reason I bought the F key. I didn't have one and this song I want to learn is being played on YouTube on an F key, so to get the same sounds from the same finger placements I need the same key. After learning I can use the same fingering on any of them and it's usually that only the tones change higher or lower - the song plays the same. Thats what I meant by using the Do Re Me system for the fingers. One Key's Do is also the same spot as the rest. Do begins at the beginning and up from there.The system is actually simple, but it took my American brain a bit to get the hang of.😎

So sad that my daughter had to find the bugs first when she opened this as a gift... I turreted the reviews but...just unbelievable!....!!!!!