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Re: Recorders

Author: lllebret
Date: 2010-09-28 03:52

Actually, I also think one should start with a Yamaha 300 as it plays extremely well for the money but it is a student model. The Bernolin and Aesthe are upper intermediate instruments akin to an all wood Bliss or Yamaha 650. However, in recorders the price difference is huge - $40 versus 359 earos or so to over $700 for the Aesthe, so I too think the Yamaha is the way to go untill one makes a real commitment to playing the recorder. The problem is that there is virtually no resistence in the Yamaha voicing so its hard to feel what you are doing. I know that if you can already play, you can make the Yamaha sound really good- I also think that the lack of resistance makes it harder to learn on. On the other hand, besides the price, the downside of wood recorders, is that you can only play them so long before the block swells and you risk damaging the instrument if you keep playing it (Bernolin makes a hand finished instrument of resin which has features that cannot be molded so it should play more like an expensive hand made instument than a factory made instrument and its 882 euros less than his boxwood recorders). I guess I'm kind of funny about instruments - I have some plastic recorders but the rest of my instruments (including the majority of my recorders) are top of the line as I don't want to feel that instument is the limitting factor; any problems are mine to work out with practice not an instrument that doesn't respond or has pitch problems, etc. The other advantage of pro instruments are that they hold their value better; intermediate instruments tend to lose their value from the original price where in pro instuments the used price tends to reflect a discount off the new price.

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