Thats a lovely story Paul!
I understand what you mean with the magic of classical music. I got exactly the same feeling when I started to play Medieval music in school. I mean, we usualy have like two or three different lines for the violins, one or two for the recorders, depending on if it is one or two recorders there. I've played Trad flute there up until now, wich works just fine and the leader usualy gives me an own line, and so on.
It was a totally new experience, it is truly magical.
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Simply because I think it fitts in better. The recorder has such a different tone than most whistles and secondly I've come accross some accidentals in medieval music as well that I have a hard time getting on a whistle. And then offcourse I want to be able to play Baroque and Rennaissance music as well. It's not just medieval music.
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It and I use the English/Baroque fingering, but through breath control,skh wrote:Was the recorder you did this with in German or English/Baroque fingering (i.e. did it needRod Sprague wrote:. One of the secrets to placing the finger holes was to add the extra finger hole at the top, keeping the spacing of the lower holes the same as the spacing of the holes on a C pennywhistle. I demonstrate this to recorder players by taping the top finger hole and thumbhole and playing the six remaining finger positions as if the recorder was a C pennywhistle! I bet this would infuriate extreme purists of both camps!
x xxx xoo o
or
x xxx xox x
for F natural (assuming it's a soprano in C))?
x xxx xoo o
can be brought into tune when I do the "recorder as whistle" demonstration much like the
oxx ooo
fingering for C on a D whistle can be made to be on pitch through breath control.
Rod
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Medieval music is still too chromatic for a whistle for the most part. Too many half holings required. Some pieces do work pretty well though. Even some Baroque-- The opening Air of the Goldberg Variations makes a smashing slow air if you toss in a few Celtic ornaments with only 2 or 3 half holes needed.Zubivka wrote:What I don't understand is why one would really need a recorder for medieval music, rather than a whistle in C...
For Renaissance, and baroque I can understand, but there
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AndHenke wrote:Simply because I think it fitts in better. The recorder has
thereHenke wrote:such a different tone than most whistles and secondly I've come accross
is thisHenke wrote:some accidentals in medieval music as well that I have a hard time
Henke wrote:getting on a whistle. And then offcourse I want to be able to play Baroque
pretty
GIRL!Henke wrote:and Rennaissance music as well. It's not just medieval music.
Oh, was I reading between the lines?
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