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If you make a fipple, internal duct, flute that has a Recorder style fingering then it is by definition a Recorder. It's as simple as that really. A recorder has a very particular bore profile and mouthpiece geometry. Even the interior profile of the windway is carefully considered. All of this pro...

If you make a fipple, internal duct, flute that has a Recorder style fingering then it is by definition a Recorder. It's as simple as that really. References to Saxophones. Boehm flutes and Venmos are just deliberately misunderstanding what was being said. Also, when was a fipple flute ever a bagpip...

Sedi wrote: ↑Sat Aug 14, 2021 9:33 am I'd say it's still a whistle. But John Bushby, who makes the Shearwater whistles makes a recorder-whistle - plays like a recorder but sounds like a whistle. I'd call that a hybrid-instrument.

It's a recorder.

A curious thing is when you examine a Sindt whistle (actually, I've only ever had my hands on a Killarney), then you should realise that it is a development in materials but not fundamentally in design. It's basically a Thin Weasel style fipple (and subsequently numerous other wooden whistles) but d...

As a quick reply to Bcoopmando.

It's not about "new" learning techniques or the use of technology during practice. No-one here has expressed any issue with that. I strongly suspect none of the people in this thread have any issues with that as long as people are learning from good sources.

...a description of players as "exhalers" or "inhalers", an equivalent to our hard/soft players. That's very interesting! Those descriptors don't make sense to me (how you can play a recorder by inhaling?) but they must make sense to recorder players. I'd like to see a descripti...

Low F Susato whistles would be worth considering. I've had one for 22 years and it's all the Low F I've ever needed. m.d. I've just acquired an older Susato (low) F. Until very recently the lowest whistle I owned was a Chieftain A (a great whistle btw. pre-Thunderbird). After the obligatory soak, w...

Adjustable from soft to hard blower would be mine. Yes! I would love to have a Colin Goldie with two little adjustment knobs, one for the back of the ramp and one for the front. So the windway could be adjusted to various heights, and could be angled in various ways. Colin would really only need to...

I got my second injection two weeks ago yesterday, and this weekend's "Folk in a Field" festival (Norfolk) is going ahead with social distancing rules etc. It'll be good to play out with the band again

I see this thread has been revived, and I had a memory of something I'd seen ... It was at the Early Music Shop, "FlautiSept - Disinfectant spray for Recorders" https://earlymusicshop.com/collections/recorder-accessories/products/flautisept-disinfectant-spray-for-recorders Personally, I mi...

Are we all so certain that it's good news that such an important (in our world) recording and producing company has succumbed to the worldwide corporate behemoth of the Universal Music Group? I think that you can tell that I don't. The whole thing feels more like a bit of predatory asset stripping b...

BigDavy wrote: ↑Mon May 03, 2021 3:17 pmlooks like a Killarney rip off

Oh, the irony ....

Wow. Is that what they call a mosh pit? I'm not sure how serious you're being :-D It was an (apparently lame) attempt at humor. Ah, mosh pits ... that's where they rip their shirts off and start headbutting each other. I think that sort of thing only goes on at dances in the wilder parts of the Wes...

Yeah, "staid" :-D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEi3hCAVmn8 Wow. Is that what they call a mosh pit? I'm not sure how serious you're being :-D English ceilidhs (yes, we nicked the word ceilidh many years ago as a "cooler" word for what are English Country Dances) at festivals c...

Trad festivals generally being somewhat more staid events: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/newsbeat-56951642 I don't know what trad festivals you've been going to, but "[s]ticky floors, queues for the loos, that sweaty smell and, inevitably, losing your phone" describes some pretty well! Ye...