I'm new here in the forum, but have 5 years of experience with the recorder and play the whole quartet. Personally, I haven't played my wooden recorders twice a day - so far. I take a plastic one when I want to play when the wooden one is "done". However, I'm not sure that's actually necessary, especially as I have found that my recorders (Kunath, Takeyama, Mollenhauer, Küng, from soprano to bass) all sound best when they are really wet (and I mean dripping! Even if water in the thumbhole is a bl... nuisance.) So at the next opportunity I'll play the recorder at home before driving to my lesson to start there with a slightly wet recorder - in view of concerts, where we have never enough time to really play in the instruments beforehand.
In short, what I'm trying to say: It certainly won't harm your recorder if you play it only once. I don't think it will do any harm to play it twice - but I can't say for sure. If you really want to play a second time and don't have an alternative instrument, you might try it carefully and see what happens - if your Dolmetsch clogs up immediately it's probably unhappy about having to work overtime...
Last edited by Kade1301 on Sun Mar 04, 2018 6:00 am, edited 2 times in total.
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