This afternoon, I spent some time at Parc René-Lévesque recording my progress on the C-foot flute I acquired this month, playing from memory an excerpt of Maurice Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte. Since I’m only a beginner and started just a month ago, there is still so much to improve. But I’m deeply attached to this instrument — for its beautiful timbre and the textures written for it by so many French Impressionist composers, especially Ravel — not to mention its