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  • Fourth-graders Heather Adams, left, and Eliza Woodward learn proper fingering during a flute lesson recently at Essex Elementary School.

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  • Fourth-grader Lauralie Johnson, left, plays the flute as classmate Morgan Phippen shows her the sheet music. MIKE SPRINGER/Gloucester Daily Times photos Fourth-grader Lauralie Johnson, left, plays the flute as classmate Morgan Phippen shows her the sheet music.

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  • Music instructor Rich Carpenter helps fourth-grader Ella Ricci find the proper fingering.

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  • Fourth-grader Noah Stevens reads music as he plays the flute.

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  • From left, Tess Richard, Ella Ricci and Noah Stevens, all fourth-graders, play the flute in a group lesson at school.

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  • Fourth-grader Eliza Woodward plays the flute.

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January 25, 2013

Budding flautists

Text and photos by Mike Springer Gloucester Daily Times

ESSEX — They hold their long, shining instruments aloft, struggle to find the proper fingering, and then blow.

Fourth-graders at Essex Elementary School are learning to play the flute.

The lessons are taught by music teacher Rich Carpenter.

The schoolchildren start out playing the recorder in third grade and can then move on to the more challenging flute in the fourth grade, if they’re interested.

“It’s one of the most difficult beginning instruments,” says Carpenter of the flute.

— Mike Springer

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