I guess it has to be that. Unless he felt “a safe place” was “behind a set of furniture so heavy & cumbersome it would be moved only once in a generation”. In which case he overachieved.
Did you know that such documents can’t/won’t be reissued ? The authorities will provide a letter confirming that a person of that name with Date of Birth of xxx took these exsms and attained these results … but no new certificates will ne drawn up.
One must assume some considerable experiences of fraud led to that decision.
It is indeed. Bird’s Eye maple, heat treated for stability and light as a feather. Plays beautifully too, even for me returning after not much playing for decades. All their flutes that I’ve heard and seen have been highly covetable.
I do like an interesting piece of wood. The Tyrolean harp in my avatar has the column and neck in a striking flame birch. It also sounds superb. I couldn’t sacrifice sound to appearance. But if I can have appearance as well as sound, so much the better.
owowowstoppit. As I have said before somewhere or other on this board, I bluddy love bagpipes. But it’s kind of obligatory to have a pop when a large target presents itself. Something which has got me into a deal of trouble over the years.
Not often enough in some cases. Don’t know if it’s particularly difficult. They don’t use the same scale as the piano either. That’s a compromise in which most of notes are actually a bit out of tune, but it’s what we’re all used to these days.