I just bought a new flute from Top Wind. It's the best shop I've ever been in. It's where the good flautists in London go to hang out and drink coffee. I've been invited back there if I'm ever in London again.
The owner casually said something along the lines of "whenever James Galway's in the store and someone asks him which flute to buy he says buy a Marmatsu, but when William Bennet's in he says to buy an Altus". The fact that their visits seems to common is fucking amazing.
Also, yesterday I was at the Hornerman museum and I saw 3 of the 122 Claude Laurant crystal glass flutes.
England is so fucking cool.
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