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...town of Proskurov where Pincas Glantz and Isaac Fishberg played in the local band under the Czars. The patriarch Isaac Fishberg, 94, is still as spry as a Bessarabian goat. He lives with his grey-haired wife Fannie in a little three-room apartment in Brooklyn. Isaac is a flutist. Last week Isaac conducted the Fishberg family's Passover services with true patriarchal dignity. Fishbergs from Manhattan and The Bronx, with their wives and children, put away their fiddles and trombones to visit him in Brooklyn. Vigorous, blue-eyed Isaac, his grey, cropped hair covered with a black skullcap...
...Doctor,' said the flutist, 'the teeth of my present bridge are too long and they have nasty spaces . . . between them. I have no support for the mouthpiece . . . and the air flows right out between the necks of the teeth. Now, doctor, can you close up these spaces . . . and grind out some sort of shelf . . . to accommodate the neck of the flute...
Next morning Dr. Epstein's phone rang. It was his secretary. " 'Mr. X [the flutist] has just broken a tooth in his new denture. And oh, doctor, he is whistling now.' 'Make my coffee a little stronger this morning,' I said to Mrs. Epstein...
...They Do It? The most harrowing problem which confronts flutists is not how to play the flute (which is easy), but how to play it well (which is not). Of the thousands of U.S. professionals and amateurs, nearly all are admittedly terrible. Their difficulties arise from the nature of the flute. Except under the most expert control, its tones have a whistling, flatulent quality which even a flutist's best friends pass over in discreet silence. Its lower tones tend toward the hoot. When it is played loudly it goes sharp, when softly, flat. Only the greatest virtuosos...
Today, the flute has a few master exponents. Among those who do not belong to the Flute Club are Wayman Carver, a brilliant hot flutist who has played with some of the best Negro jazz bands, and Alberto Socarras, also a spirited syncopator, whose rumba band was last week at Broadway's Café Zanzibar. The finest legitimate flutist in the U.S. is William Kincaid, a courtly, silver-haired, Honolulu-raised native of Minneapolis, whose abilities ornament the Philadelphia Orchestra. Like all great flutists, Kincaid has a chest like a bellows. He developed it while a child, swimming...