A New Way of Making Whistles? Bass recorders for squares

Kevin L. Rietmann · Post by **Kevin L. Rietmann** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:57 am

Made by Herbert Paetzold in Germany.
Craig Fischer has made square bore Irish pipe chanters. You can apply it to whatever woodwind apparently.

Shown above from left to right:
-F- Bass Recorder
-C- Greatbass Recorder
-F- Contrabass Recorder

From Susato's website

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 12:02 pm

Very very odd. Never seen anything like this before.
From the same family as these?

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:38 pm

Those Paetzold square recorders are actually quite excellent. I saw the superb Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet using one or two of them a couple of years ago and they sounded terrific-- sort of like organ pipes. The keys (also plywood) make a cool clacky sound and one of the modern pieces the quartet played actually used that clacky sound without blowing the recorders!

Kevin L. Rietmann · Post by **Kevin L. Rietmann** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:11 pm

Edgar Varese's Density 21.5?
He got the density wrong, apparently. (It was written for an owner of a platinum flute) It was said to be the first piece written to incorporate flute key noise.

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:30 pm

I have a friend who owns a Paetzold Contrabass and it is one of the instruments that inspired me to make the basswhistle.