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Author: Holy Svyatoj
Date: 2002-05-12 09:06
Hi , i'm a newbie on recorder.
After self-learning for a week , i 've got serveral problems.
1. I saw some charts on 'trill' and 'flattement' for recorder,
may i know what is it ?
2. Also , i 've heard of double tongueing for flutes ,
could it apply to a recorder ?
3. I am using a soprano recorder , when reaching C6 ,
it seems that the sound isn't quite accurate , what is the problem ?
4. I found some fingering needed for covering the bell ..
my question is ... what should i use to cover the bell ?
Thanks ^^.
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Author: bassoonbob
Date: 2002-05-13 21:40
i can answer number 4 for you. you can cover it with your leg or use your pinky if its not in use
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Author: cas
Date: 2002-11-22 18:10
Flattement are/were an ornament used in the baroque period. It is a fast alternation with a pitch that is less than a half-step lower than the principal note. In the baroque, vibrato was not used, so this was important for expression, especially at the ends of phrases and long tones.
Double and triple tongueing are essential to recorder technique also. Note however that baroque and classical double tongueing is diffferent from modern technique. Modern technique is either ti-ki-ti-ki or di-gi-di-gi. Historical double tongueing is more like diddle-iddle
Closing the bell is alos part of more modern technique. It allows you to produes a good high C#, high Eb, high A and high Bb, and other notes. There is alos a special type of recorder made with a bell key to facilitate this-see Waitzman
High C (high F on F instruments) is hard to produce at first. Read Waitzman and Jones for background. It is very very important to relax your l.h. thumb. It is truly amazing the effect this has! Also, for certain high notes, it is useful to vent the thumb in such a way that venting happens above and below the thumb-see Waitzman. this technique is not well known, but works wonderfully in the mid-upper high register
good luck
cas
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