flutist

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Long before Mr. Galway dreamed of making a full-time career as a flutist, he spent hours a day practicing, playing in local "flute bands," learning by listening, and eagerly studying under a steady progression of nurturing - and increasingly sophisticated - teachers.

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  • They tune to a different flutist, follow a different drummer. —  AndhraCafe.com
  • He worked in Irakere as a flutist, keyboard player, and arranger and through the group was introduced to a host of internationally known jazz and Latin musicians, including Dizzie Gillespie, Paquito D'Rivera, and Chick Corea. —  Westword | Complete Issue
  • Baum, the flutist-composer, has recently been absorbing Ives, and last year's —  Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
  • The flutist was set up behind the piano, leaning into the microphone as "I Saw Her Standing There" was given a wild, new, inventive treatment for a hopping lounge crowd that kept the cocktail servers on the run. —  Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
  • Wait-listees are often chosen because they have special talents -- the orchestra needs a flutist, the English department wants more poets.
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  1. = French flûtiste = Spanish flautista = Portuguese frautista = Italian flautista = Swedish flöjtist; as flute + -ist.
 

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/ˈflutɪst/
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