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[email protected] Table of CONTENTS THE FLUTIST QUARTERLY VOLUME XXXV, NO.4 SUMMER 2010 DEPARTMENTS 5 From the Chair 65 NFA News 7 From the Editor 71 Notes from Around the World 10 High Notes 74 New Products 14 Flute Shots 75 From the 2011 Convention Program Chair 39 Across the Miles 42 Illuminating Tradition: 38th Annual 76 Reviews NFA Convention in Anaheim 88 NFA Office, Coordinators, 60 Contributors Committee Chairs 18 62 Student Spotlight: Brook Ferguson 93 Index of Advertisers FEATURES 18 Rudall, Rose & Carte: The art of the flute in Britain by Robert Bigio “It would be a difficult task to name a professional flute player in Great Britain who does not play on one of our instruments,” says a Rudall Carte catalog of the 1930s.