One of Nicola Boud’s favourite places in Paris is the atelier run by her instrument-maker friend, Agnès Guéroult. Not far from the Opéra Bastille, the workshop is off a little courtyard and entering it, Boud says, is like stepping into a clarinettist’s wonderland.
‘You walk into this happy chaos,’ she says. ‘It’s quite messy, but so charming. There’s equipment everywhere and wood shavings all over the floor, and it smells like linseed oil.’
