I learned today that master flute and recorder maker Friedrich von Huene died on Sunday [http://slippedisc.com/2016/05/early-instrument-maker-has-died/].
I was in his shop in Brookline, Mass, several years ago and he and his wife were in a hurry to get to his weekend home in Maine. I grabbed what I needed so I wouldn’t hold them up, but he wanted to show me some flutes he had in production. He gave me a tour of his workshop and the flutes he was working on, surely making him late. (If I remember correctly, the tides played a big part in rowing to the island in Maine. His wife tried to hurry him along, but he kept on going.) He was enthusiastic about introducing his world-class recorders and baroque flutes to a rank amateur.
The world has lost a real gentleman and craftsman.