![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What was special about the Tring? The collection of ornithological specimens houses 95% of all known bird species, about 750,000 individual examples, neatly tagged and stored in metal drawers. Edwin needed a new flute if he was going to compete with the top echelon of musicians, and he got an idea.Įdwin Rist wrote a letter under another name requesting access to a branch of the British Natural History Museum located at Tring, thirty miles outside of London. When Edwin Rist left to go to college to study music and the flute at London’s Royal Academy of Music, his parents were struggling financially. His parents arranged for him to have lessons from another older fly-tier, and Edwin began to attend conferences and contests, winning several awards for his aptitude and speed of creating flies. He became obsessed with the hobby after he saw fly-tying on television. Not only was he a burgeoning prodigy with the flute, but he was also a heck of a fly-tier. Edwin Rist had a great brain, and apparently, he was good with his hands. ![]()
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