This article first appeared in Pan, March 2010. I am indebted to the then-editor Robert Bigio for providing originals of the article from his archive, and for encouraging me at the time to write a piece in celebration of Harry Seeley. I visited Harry and his wife Barbara on a snowy January day and was made to feel welcome with smiles and a light lunch. The article wrongly states that Ewen McDougall retired in 1983, whereas in fact he and his wife moved to North Yorkshire where he set up a workshop and made a series of superb flutes engraved with his own name until his untimely death in 1999. Also it is worth adding that Angus Harris returned to FMG in the mid-1990s and worked alongside Harry to produce that last great sequence of thinned-throughout wooden flutes.