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Re: Recorders

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-10-01 19:52

>>I respect Lelia's knowledge of yard sales, but all of the Koch recorders I've seen have been low-end instruments. You recognize them by their simple shape, single holes and a brass pin running from side to side near the top of the head joint that holds the block in place.
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Koch must've made different grades of recorders, then, because my cocobolo Koch recorders don't resemble that description at all. They've got the double holes, an elegant shape, separate head and foot joints and no pin in the block. The intonation is first-rate. They're made of rosewood or cocobolo. I don't know whether it's significant that I bought them in Pennsylvania at different times: at the Renninger's Extravaganza in Kutztown and at Shupp's Grove in Adamstown. These are the only Koch recorders I've ever seen. Ken, I wonder whether some store in Pennsylvania stocked a particularly high grade, if the ones you've seen are inferior.

Lelia
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