Niccolò Paganini has been a figure of inspiration and speculation for countless musicians after him. Marieke Schneemann is by no means the first to play Paganini’s finger‐breaking Caprices on the flute, with all the necessary transpositions that requires, not to mention a virtuosity at least matching that required to play them on the violin, but she is the first to do so on a ‘period’ flute: a wooden conical ring‐keyed flute by Louis Lot, Paris, 1860. Ms. Schneemann has been first and foremost a musician in the Netherlands flourishing historically informed, period instrument movement.