I went up for a meeting with Jonathan Myall about my Fife Book. While I was there I had a look at the Baroque flutes he had in. My friend, Robert Goodman, plays Baroque flute and he really, really loves it. I went to his excellent concert just before Christmas when he performed on his beautiful Ardel Powell flute. We’d been talking the day before I went up  to Just Flutes and Robert mentioned he’d seen a flute he was hankering after on their website, one made by Rod Cameron. I’ve been thinking about buying a plastic Aulos Baroque flute (it’s what experts recommend people start on) and Robert kindly said I could borrow his and maybe I’d like to bring the Rod Cameron one down on approval. So I did!

I came home very excited ………… but as soon as I put the flute together and tried to have a blow I remembered I’d tried playing the Baroque flute before and didn’t manage as the stretch is much too big for my hands!!!! So frustrating!!!!! It felt a little better this morning when I had a second go, but I’m not prepared to damage my hands just to play the flute. There maybe a solution or maybe I need to buy a nice Boehm system concert flute ….. Just Flutes have a very nice sounding Sankyo ……………  

I’ll let you know how Robert gets on with the lovely Rod Cameron flute soon.