Pretty sad if you ask me that this is ending up in an auction house.
A vintage desk (it’s a desk, not a console coz we’re Brits see…) should not be in a museum or in the hands of some Russian oligarch who has run out of toys to buy and needs another coke-snorting surface for his man-cave.
Llike a 300 y/old Stradavarius, an analogue desk like this is a finely matured instrument, and should be put back into service.
As Aristotle used to say, the best flutes belong in the hands of the best flute players…
