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I agree with Tunborough here... even allowing for historically evolving recorder bores, e.g. medieval, renaissance, baroque etc. I also thought Narzog's 'bagpipe or whistle?' question quite apposite. Far from suggesting we might call that instrument a bagpipe, the intentional absurdity of the questi...

Smoother transitions between registers, especially when slurred.

Gary90 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 16, 2021 4:13 pm It goes to show with anything, that theres a mob that insist you have to have gucci equipment or instruments (im not saying humphrey isn't good).

I think the point was not just judging by equipment, but not recognising Humphrey as Humphrey.

Julia Delaney wrote: ↑Tue Jul 13, 2021 1:12 pm The young player has taken my words at face value (he's a very good player). He is still coming to our session and is writing down the names of "essential" tunes, to learn on his own.

And that sounds like a good result!

-some better way to create and control quality vibrato, no matter what note(s) are being played -a way to improve how sliding notes can be played, so you can more easily slide through a range of notes in one long unbroken sound. I think these two are entirely under the player's control already. We ...

I left them out deliberately!

And if the cut ends exactly when the tap occurs, that's another one less. And that wouldn't be a roll. A long roll (starting with the main note) will have five sounds (three main pitches and two blips). A short roll (starting with the cut) will have four. There are places where you'd want one and p...

david_h wrote: ↑Wed Jun 30, 2021 3:43 am How about making a head that fits the PVC pipe and try things like coating the insides of lengths of pipe with glue and blowing sawdust and such like up them?

Isn't this effectively still an experiment in reducing bore volume as well as roughening it?

Nanohedron wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 10:33 am Whether on paper or pixels, dots is dots, not mastery.

The problem here is not dots, but the particular use of them. Dots are useful, ears are useful, and musical ears are vital when one doesn't match the other, but the real issue is clumsy, graceless gatecrashing of the session.

As well as the hole not being under the finger like the key, consider the aspect of the key being a closed-standing key where the hole would be, well, open. So you'd be making the opposite movements from normal to use it as well as having to keep your finger on it for at least Ds.

...As the bore gets narrower the fundamental gets weaker and the 2nd octave becomes easier to achieve. ... Not what I would have expected to hear. It's simple physics. My narrower bore high-D whistles, Oak, Generation, Feadog, I find to have an ear-splitting second octave and the highest notes-- B,...

Honestly, I'm just a dilletante-hack on whistles, but I don't see how a B-to-high-D can be slurred. Of course it can; you just need the right coordination of finger movement and slight breath pressure increase, which becomes second nature with time. I'd also normally do it XOOOOO to OXXXXX rather t...

She actually says it herself as they stop:
The Dogs Among The Bushes.

"Crested Hens", AKA "Crusty Chickens". Not if you play it in its original key (D dorian > D minor), in which case you want an F, a Bb and maybe a C instead (although I think I play forked C here)... But of course you want an Eb key anyway if you're getting keys! Extremely few fl...

NicoMoreno wrote: ↑Fri Apr 30, 2021 9:36 am But the exact measurement is likely subjective...

Yes, it could be narrower than some assumed general standard or narrower than a particular maker's standard. So there can be no exact meaning when one maker's 'narrow' could be another's 'standard' and so on.