[Ansteorra] buying recorders (was: iso dance)

[ledonna mcgowan]

Just got my new alto Yamaha 312B and it's wonderful.  Clear, clean tones
all the way thought.  Can get the very high notes (E2) without any of the
fuzz that the Tudor gets up there. Just went and ordered a soprano and
tenor.

Delphina

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:46 AM, ledonna mcgowan <ledmcgowan at gmail.com>wrote:

> That is cool about Purcell!
>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Jeffrey Clark <jmclark85 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Choosing the right instrument can go a long way to helping tuning and
>> balance, and there is a reason most professional recorder players will
>> avoid playing soprano unless they absolutely have to. Unless you have a
>> very well-made soprano recorder, it is very hard not to sound shrill, and
>> it takes some seriouls control to play a soprano recorder in tune with
>> other instruments.
>>
>> Early instruments do not transpose. Everything is read at sounding pitch.
>> Actually, I was
>> looking at a facsimile of a manuscript for one of Purcell's orchestral
>> works, and I noticed that the "flute" part was transposed, after a moment I
>> realised why: it was so that someone playing on a soprano recorder could
>> play the part reading it as if they were playing an alto. So, apparently
>> Purcell's recorder player didn't play soprano that much....
>>
>> --AS Zorzi
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