From my very little expierience (just few years of swimming around flutes and brass instruments),
starting a new instrument, especialy brass one, is a bit new and diffrent to the common mind.
its really the opposite of obvious. I've been whistling into the ney for 2 weeks now, and its amazing.
I remember when I got it, there was nothing I could do with it.
but after few hours of trying, playing with it, in baby steps, things actually change.
it really does remind me baby's first steps.
after weeks or month of trying, no balance at all, nothing stable, then something comes out, and its a really beauty, it really is amazing
especially if you have the patient for it.
everyday that passes, every morning I wake up, every night of sleeping, I wake up into the next day with a feeling of more connectedness to the ney. I keep its fire, and its a real beauty to my life.