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Re: Recorder - Sorry if too off-topic

Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2006-08-07 21:34

One of the most enjoyable experiences that I've ever had was with the St. Louis area yearly musical competition back in the 1960's. In addition to the usual solos, trios, duets and the like on "normal" instruments, one year a group of like-minded folks at my high school pulled together a recorder group.

I don't recall what it was that we played (something with a pretty pedestrian bass line, says the "fake bassoon" player of the group), and I remember that the "horns" were begged and borrowed from multiple sources. We worked it up over a month or two of after school systems, and were quite the wonder when we showed up with "flutaphones" instead of our real horns for that one session.

Personally, I'd rather avoid the uneven spacing and cross fingerings that are part and parcel of the fipple flute world. But, it sure was worth it.

leader of Houston's Sounds Of The South Dance Orchestra
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