The daffodills look lovely today
I had forgotten how much I love Dvorak's 9th, I also realised that the tune I always hum absent mindedly is the main theme.
I played a beautiful instrument a few days ago - an end blown flute, it had two holes and as a result played a drone when you wanted it to. It was gorgeously tuned and only 450. I considered it for a moment then laughed at myself. After I have an english horn maybe I'll start buying oddities. It reminded me of the flute I played at a folk fest in Victoria once though. That one was a transverse flute in G, more traditional really, and so wonderfully made - I'm used to trying wooden flutes and being dissappointed at the tuning and tone, but this one was beautiful - I had enough money too, it was only about $60, but they only took cash and my dad wouldn't lend me the money because he was in his father to the two year old who oddly looks like a 17year old role. I didn't persist, as I've always found asking for money extremely difficult anyways, but despite myself I kept talking about it as time passed because I had loved the sound so much, and eventually my dad felt so guilty for not loaning me the money that he ended up buying me two horribly tuned endblown flutes. haha. ah well.