In real life, where most hats aren't magical, a bar is the perfect place to find an orchestra on short order.

--Geoff

Frederick's views of the female gender have been gone into here before. He DID play quite a bit of music with his sister when they were growing up together, and considered their duets more or less the high point of his existence. But that didn't so much transfer to other ladies, and his latter-day fluting was exclusively in the company of men.

Gilbert is handling the strageness of his position Most Excellently.

- Count Dolby von Luckner