Having just concluded the annual season of desire and acquisition, these are perhaps words worth hearing. Many of us (myself included) have been among those people, but time after time, I'm reminded 'it's the player'...I've heard inexpensive Folk Flutes by Burns sound brilliant and top-of-the-line Olwell flutes sound less than, in both cases credit to the players.There is no such thing as the perfect flute. I am always meeting people who spend a lot of time and money trying to find the 'right flute'. In general the defect is in themselves, and not in the long series of instruments that they acquire and reject.
So assuming you (and I) have a good flute, whatever it may be, let's love the one we're with and direct our covetous desires at tunes, which one can't have too many of and which are free (aside from time) to acquire.