For Family Home Evening tonight Nina and I are at the Methodist Church in
Pocatello at a flute orchestra concert. The group consists of twelve
flautists (is that what flute players are called?) — 11 women and one man.
The solo guy is in our ward and he’s played his flute with the ward choir
before and is prety good. He also works at the same company that I do and
we see each other most every day. It’s primarily to support him that we’re
here. The music is very good, however, and it’s worth our time to be here.
Jerry is playing a bass flute right now — a very large instrument with a
bend in it. It is kind of shaped like a candy cane, held with the short
side up which has the mouthpiece, then it turns down on the left in a 180
degree turn and all of the finger mechanism is on the lower part. Quite
clever, and I suspect it’s a rather expensive instrument. I should have
brought my camera!
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