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A Journey with the Flute

Manoharan CJoined Diamond membership on 29.08.2026August 31, 20261 min readTransformation

I am from Agricultural Family from a village. I completed my UG & PG in Engineering. I joined as a Professor in Engineering College in Coimbatore. Now I am 57 yrs old.

Learning Flute was one of my desire from my childhood onwards.

Last year I came across Harsh Dave sirs YouTube, about learning Indian Traditional Flute through online class.

Initially I doubted whether this class is true or fake. But still I joined the Basic course.

After attending the class regularly, I came to know about the structure of Indian Classical flute learning.

I was hospitalized at the time of submitting videos for FFC. I was under treatment for quite few months for my cervical disc issue. Unable to play or practice because for collar neck band and also I lost touch sense to my left hand and fingers. By physio therapy treatment for few months I slowly recovered from loss of touch sense Even now I have numbness to my left thumb, index and middle finger.

Now I managed to play flute along with numbness. Some times I miss closing the hole properly because of lack to touch sense.

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