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| 06/16/2008: "Panic"
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Tomorrow is Monday, June 16th, which is the designated *panic* date for our Oregon Country Fair preparations. Many embryonic flutes in the pipeline, and the only question is how many of them will be brought to full term by the second weekend of July. The next three weeks would be an excellent time for flute inquiries, since many will be available for consideration over the home stretch. I used to attend a dozen or so big art/craft fairs every year, but no more: the OCF is the only major event remaining on the docket, thank heavens.
I'm much more critically discriminating when recommending instruments over the Internet than in a face-to-face interaction, especially when the meatspace interaction takes place in the context of a chaotic craft fair. Customers who obtain flutes over the 'net get the cream of the crop in most cases, since a customer who can't play-test the goods in person deserves my best shot.
On the other hand, if you show up at a fair booth and are attracted to something that might not be my very best effort, go for it! Actually, I should return to doing do three or four major meatspace shows a year in order to clear out the back-stock.
--Not to imply that we'd sell inferior goods under any circumstances! Nope, even the second-tier flutes are *ahem* sublime works of musical art worthy of any discriminating collector's attention. I discard many flutes in the early stages-- many more than are actually completed. In fact, some of the finished ones I'd carelessly classify as second-rate might even be superior in many respects-- especially for casual beginners or others who aren't attuned to such nitpicky standards. After all, how many of us are seriously invested in playing in the third octave of a bamboo flute?
--r.
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