There was an awful lot of research and prototype building before "The Gem" was born!

For Zoe Hancock from Black Dyke to say having tried the Flugel for several weeks to say in a British Bandsman article “The intonation is the best that I have ever played, which I feel the other leading Flugels haven’t mastered yet”, sums the instrument up, resulting in the success we’re having throughout the UK, Europe, the USA, Australia, Japan and being very much in demand in Norway.