{"id":185,"date":"2020-03-28T14:20:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T14:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learn-flute.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2020-03-29T15:19:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T14:19:55","slug":"valiant-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learn-flute.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/28\/valiant-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Valiant service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/learn-flute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Murumatsu-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"old murumatsu\" class=\"wp-image-184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learn-flute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Murumatsu-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/learn-flute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Murumatsu-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/learn-flute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Murumatsu-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/learn-flute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Murumatsu-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/learn-flute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Murumatsu-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/learn-flute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Murumatsu-620x465.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>After decades of service&#8230;..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in an age long, long ago I was put in touch with clarinettist <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/1999\/dec\/30\/guardianobituaries2\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Trier<\/a>, whose daughter was selling this flute. I made the trip from Cambridge down to London and was welcomed into his beautiful home, tried the flute, loved it, and sealed the deal. It&#8217;s been with me ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite a \u00a3450 rebuild a few years back, it just wasn&#8217;t up to scratch. Then, when a [new] spring snapped and the flute died, there was a sharp reminder that not only was a better flute required, but a worthy second flute was needed too. You can&#8217;t go on tour without a backup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sad to see the old work tool go into retirement. At the last count it was worth about \u00a310,000 to replace, but actually worth next to nothing for resale. It has done many miles, many concerts, gigs, recordings and teaching sessions. Time for a rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/learn-flute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MuramatsuLogo.png\" alt=\"Muramatsu\" class=\"wp-image-188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learn-flute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MuramatsuLogo.png 225w, https:\/\/learn-flute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MuramatsuLogo-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption>Muramatsu Flute<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in an age long, long ago I was put in touch with clarinettist Steve Trier, whose daughter was selling this flute. I made the trip from Cambridge down to London and was welcomed into his beautiful home, tried the flute, loved it, and sealed the deal. It&#8217;s been with me ever since. Despite a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn-flute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn-flute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn-flute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn-flute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn-flute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/learn-flute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/learn-flute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn-flute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn-flute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn-flute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}