there’s a keyed cocus Olwell flute waiting for you at home… 
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and you’ve got 15 minutes left to put in at your job. 
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and you’ve only got a 1/2 hour with it when you get home… 
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because you have to play hockey… 
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and you’ll be exhausted when you get home late … 
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yet knowing you will force yourself to stay awake to fondle it and play with it. 
IT"S HERE! 
Pics or it never happened, Migs.
First, retire. Then you’ll have more time for the hockey AND the Olwell. I know how hockey is though. I had a friend who drove 150 miles one way after work on a weekday to play in a hockey league, and back in time for work the next day. He didn’t play the flute though.
I was going to suggest that you change into your hockey equipment at home (skates excepted) thus giving you an extra 15 minutes to play the flute until you left for the rink 
…but then the smell from your gear might somehow transfer to the cocus wood …ugh, disaster 
…So, I’ve decided you did the best you could under stressful circumstances
Pics, we want pics 
Paul
Congratulations, David! I’m sure you’ll have many happy years with it.
Wow -
As a Colorado based Hockey player also I understand the need to do both things. Thou on IR for most of the last 2 years. ( keep thinking I am good to play again and re injuring my hip) So I now don’t have to choose.
Congratulations on the new Flute. Hope you have many great hours playing it.
DGB
okay…so i hardly slept.
lol
lovely morning with my long-awaited Olwell (yes…9.5 years to be fairly precise).
it’s fun to play, by God. and fits my hands like a glove.
why so long a wait?
a few factors, not the least is likely that Pat was locating, as he calls it, “AAA cocus”…i’m glad he did, too.
it is. it really is. (yes, yes…photos…coming, i promise)
and the custom work i asked of him…
and the already long waiting list
and…
well…no matter. It’s here. And i’m glad i waited.
you might all recall a boxwood flute Pat made for me not long ago. Gorgeous and a wonderful player.
It was an “accident” however, that Pat had forgotten I’d changed my choice of wood years ago.
So either the custom-cut flute became kindling or I accepted it…and continued my wait for the cocus one.
Pat was very generous with his patience on the issue and it worked out nicely. I have a beautiful boxwood flute for personal playing and small session, and the cocus now for the bigger sessions and gigs, etc.
Some serious resources indeed but what’s a lifetime flute without the small bit of “pain” behind it.
now…if Crawford would get my box done! lol. Ben, the man’s killing me.
Great news, Dave! I wish you good health to enjoy it, man.
2012 ought to be the year when my 6 keyed blackwood Olwell is ready. The anticipation is already killing me. I might have gone for cocus, but I honestly couldn’t afford the extra cost.
As already stated, mucho pictures pronto!!
m.d.
Congratulations! Sounds great just from the few words of description you’ve given already. You’re a fortunate man.
Hopefully with your order out of the way Patrick is already working on my Blackwood Pratten type, keyless, three section, all wood flute (no tuning slide or silver rings), promised for May?
By the way, when Patrick says “by May” does he mean by May 1, or sometime thereafter?
I never knew I had this amount of dogged patience in me … it’s killing me
K.
Are we talking real Hockey or Ice Hockey here? 
I wanna see pictures of David in his kit!
(no, not really…)
haha
Ice, Jem…i’d forgotten that the sport has a different meaning on that side of the water w/o the qualifier before it.
proof? if the link works, here’s last year’s photo
http://team274581.pointstreak.net/viewphotos.php?aid=4200&s=5
Does Pat mean May 1 when he says May.
Yeah…pretty much…kinda…sorta. 
link: nope, requires log in
Jem,
When you refer to “real” hockey, surely you refer to a lesser form of hockey called “field” hockey? David plays the real thing.
P.
oh boy…i can see it brewing already.
Ha! Seriously, I carry no torch for any form of the game, though I think the historical primacy of ordinary hockey with a ball is unarguable? FWIW, I think the most attractive form of the game I’ve seen is the indoor variety with a ball - faster, more continuous more skilful and more exciting than outdoor field hockey, but without all the silly and gratuitous violent barging etc. which mars ice hockey as a spectator sport (at least if one wants to see the basic premise of the game pursued rather than the violence!). Mind, it’d be even better if they changed the sticks and the rules so they could use both sides like in ice hockey. (Just to upset traditionalists/purists…)
(See, I knew this thread was about important stuff - hockey - really…)
I suppose that of the 4 classic N American sports, Ice Hockey is probably the next most interesting/entertaining after Gridiron (which at least has a properly shaped ball, even if they take far too long deciding what to do with it…) - 'cos baseball and basketball are utterly tedious (and no, I don’t like cricket or silly-fussball). 
as one who played competitive football in school…
…professional baseball in the minor leagues (albeit briefly)…
and competitive ice hockey today (“no” checking, which essentially means none of the gratuitous violence Jem seemingly abhors…but we can’t eliminate the “incidental” contact that occurs)…
… I have to say with that authority that ice hockey trumps them all in terms of fun, difficulty and speed of play.
Anyone can play football. Get in the way and you’re a blocker. Hold the ball and run with it.
Baseball requires the coordination of hitting a round object with an oblong rounded object, catching with one, tossing with the other, etc.
But ice hockey…put simply: you cannot play ice hockey if you can’t skate.
And that alone is a difficult enough task.
Then there’s the skill of the game once you’ve “mastered” skating…forwards, backwards and sideways.
Truly a humbling sport.
But the single best aerobic workout in team sport you’ll find … IMHO.
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now…back to my flute!
Ah. The player’s perspective is of course quite other than the spectator’s. I am strictly the latter. I don’t find ice hockey very watchable - nor outdoor field hockey - and certainly not football (soccer, not gridiron, which is OK on telly with bits cut, [hell, even cricket can be OK well and hard edited!!!]), for all I’m waaaaaaayyy out of step with the world at large on that last. 
I really enjoy watching rugby, but never had any aspiration to play it!
Did someone mention a flute? (Or golf? 
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Ah-h-h well, there you have it Jem: a topnotch flute player who plays an Olwell cocus flute and who also plays real hockey.
It can’t get much better.
P.
Maybe not. But there’s this guy… monster flute player, incredible dancer, producer-director, business tycoon, solid boxing credentials, snappy dresser (ok, that’s debatable). I could probably come up with his name, but it might get another whole thing started again.
Sorry, don’t mind me.
You forgot to mention the holographic tape.
Rob
p.s. Mazel tov, David. All the joy to you.