I never saw or heard of Matt Molloy playing a metal Boehm flute. Good story though. Wonder if I can convince an astronaut to take a whistle into space…
I remember a thread…waaaay back…that was specifically intended to be the place to post pics of chiffers playing whistles in unusual and/or exotic locations.
Yusef Lateef wrote a tune (in the late 50-'s, before the space craze) called “Blues in Space.” He played it on sax on the album but it wouldn’t surprise me if he’s played it on flute, too.
Check out the Flute Forum’s parallel thread: one of our very own Chiffers, Lar, actually has a hands-on in the situation (2nd post from the bottom). How cool is that?