[Ansteorra] buying recorders (was: iso dance)

Jeffrey Clark jmclark85 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 06:25:26 PST 2012


Glad to hear that you like it. It should be able to get up to high B, but I haven't quite gotten the c to speak (needed for one of the Telemann sonatas). I you can get up to a g (half of the thumb, 1-3|1-3 and a little of 4) you can play most of the SCA dance tunes where they lie.

--AS Zorzi

On Mar 1, 2012, at 7:34, ledonna mcgowan <ledmcgowan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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