Often called “the man with the golden flute,” James Galway earned his nickname. It applies not only to his incomparable warm tone but also to the fact that he plays a flute made literally of gold.
Galway feels that gold imports a warmer tone than is generally heard by a silver-colored instrument, and he does not stint in any way; he owns about 15 flutes of the precious metal, he says in a YouTube video of a ClassicalFM broadcast of a concert at Zoomer Hall.
