Author: Dutchy
Date: 2006-10-04 14:03
Nothing special, just a handful of plastic sopranos of varying quality (Dollar Store specials, a couple of Cambridges, a Yamaha), an alto and tenor plastic Yamaha, and a fairly nice pearwood (?) soprano and tenor, and a maple sopranino, alto, and bass, none by famous makers.
I bought the bass when I was a teenager, in 1971, for $100 at the local small-town music store, who didn't seem to know what it was, but there it was in the display case along with the kiddie harmonicas and the tambourines. I was already a recorder addict, bullying the entire rest of my family into learning to play just so I'd have someone to play with me. So I snapped it up, you better believe, had to go halfies with my mom on it, as being a teenager I didn't have the whole $100, but hey. I dragged her down there, pointed to it, said urgently, "THIS is a bass recorder." She humored me, bless her. And then she kindly converted a small suitcase to hold the four SATB wooden recorders together in one set with fitted compartments, using cardboard, foam, and fabric, which I still have, and which they still live in, up there on the shelf with Aunt Janet's clarinet.
The sopranino lives in its very own blue-velvet-lined wooden box that it came in. The plastic recorders all live in an old briefcase. No luxury accomodations for them. :D
They are also kept company by a two different size plastic fifes, a tin whistle, and one of those Aardvark plastic "sewer pipe" flutes, which I (once upon a time) learned to play well enough to be able to pick out Christmas carols on.
So it's an eclectic group.
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The Clarinet BBoard
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