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Born in 1956 in Montreal, Jean-François Beaudin decided at an early age to become a flutist who could make his own instruments as well as play them, taking the celebrated figure of J.J. Quantz as his ideal. After two years of study at the University of Montreal, he moved to the Hague in order to work with Ricardo Kanji and Bartholde Kuijken at the conservatory there. In Amsterdam, he had the privilege of studying with Australian recorder maker Frederick Morgan, who became a major influence in his life when he introduced Beaudin to the fine art of flute drawing... Beaudin soon developed his own style, and his drawing of a flute by G.A. Rottenburg in Kuijken's collection became well known among museum professionals. Since then, several museums with important flutes in their collections-including the Musée instrumental de la cité de la musique in Paris, the Musikinstrumenten-Museum in Berlin, the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, and the Dayton Miller..