… when it seems that too much of a good thing is barely enough. I just took up flute recently and have managed to accumulate a couple of Olwell bamboos, an Alan Mount polymer and a Boehm system metal flute. All nice instruments, but I was keen to try wood. Well, today when I went to Customs in Sydney, not one but two wooden flutes were waiting for me. Their simultaneous arrival was pure accident.
First, on loan, is a Casey Burns mopane—the regular keyless model, not the new beginners’ model. Then, in another package, there is my very first owned wooden flute—a 6 keyed blackwood LeHart. With two new friends like that, which way do you turn? Well I turned both ways this evening and I know I’m going to have a lot of fun learning to play these beasts.
I must be serious about learning flute. For a bit more than the price of the LeHart I could have bought another button box and I’d know how to play that straight away.
