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Author: tetiana
Date: 2003-01-31 00:48
This is a wonderful board: informative, entertaining, inspirational. But I also play the recorder. And while I get lots of inspiration, information and entertainment to motivate me in my study of the clarinet, I have not happened upon anything comparable for recorder players. Can anyone direct me to a site?
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Author: Sandra F. H.
Date: 2003-01-31 01:23
I recently asked alot of recorder questions, so you might want to search the threads. There are alot of recorder/clarinet doublers here. Sandra
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Author: ron b
Date: 2003-01-31 01:56
Hi, Tetiana
I seem to remember there were some rather lengthy and quite informative discussions about recorders, as Sandra says. Just post your message and see what happens. You might be pleasantly surprised at the response. Mark C. is pretty good about things like that as long as we don't get too rowdy :]
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2003-01-31 15:02
Tetiana -
There is, or at least used to be, a recorder mailing list. I was on it for a while, but there wasn't enough oxygen to keep the mind alive.
The problem is that most recorder players are at the level of the average 2nd year beginning band junior high school clarinetist. I think it's because recorder makes a sound without an embouchure and has no keys, so players never learn the discipline of competent music making.
Even in New York City, it's hard to find competent recorder players. The decent ones are hot after a professional career, and with the rest, it's a case of you can't soar like an eagle when you're yoked with turkeys.
One way is to go to a couple of American [Canadian] Recorder Society workshops, see if there's anyone interesting there, and talk with the faculty for leads, or get into one of their groups. Another possibility is to call the local college to find harsichord and baroque flute, oboe and violin players.
I play a fair amount of baroque music informally. Mostly I play recorder, but if my tenor isn't strong enough to hold, say, a violin line in a trio sonata, I'll play it on C clarinet. It works fine once you adjust to the lower volume level, which is good practice for clarinet.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: tetiana
Date: 2003-01-31 20:13
Thank you Sandra, Ron, David and Ken. I did look up the threads about recorder playing and you're right, there were quite some chats going, especially about model and brand names, different registers (my head spun!) and the like. (I'd just like to add my 2 cents worth on that subject - I didn't see anyone mention the Aesthé - it's made by Boudreau, but it's a bit lower end than the ones actually called "Boudreau", more affordable (around $800 Can or about there for an alto) -a fabulous instrument, hand finished and gorgeous to play.
Ken, I'm lucky enough to live in an area where recorder playing is actually very much alive and well and I belong to Cammac and go to their summer sessions where I have a wonderful time playing triosonatas with gambists or jamming with whatever combination of recorder players (or virginalists, vocalists or string players) happen to be available with whatever music we happen to check out of the library.
During the year though, time doesn't permit much for the recorder beyond my solitary practising. I don't have the time to join a recorder ensemble (and there are quite a few in the city). It would be great if I could I sneak a few minutes now and then to check out an informative board dedicated to recorder playing and learn things that I never knew I didn't know. Frequently in browsing throught this board I learn things just by the questions other people ask.
It would be great to be able to open a thread on a bulletin board where someone asks, for instance, what the difference is between an Italian and French approach to baroque ornamentation, or whether using very gently a pipe cleaner on the recorder mouthpiece is safe, or why van Eyck doesn't seem to be played as much as this beautiful music deserves, or whether mineral oil is safe to use, or how to get a clean high F# (the one with the knee) on the alto without knocking out your front teeth. And so on.
Maybe one day...
Tetiana
P.S. If you have time, Ken, maybe you could just field the F# question - Telemann's inventions seems to have them all over the place.
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Author: Rev. Avery
Date: 2003-11-25 21:56
Thanks. I just joined it. I love Recorders. I love my Ocarina. And I really love my Clarinet ![[grin]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie5.gif)
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