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I overheard a most terrible statement today. Someone pics up a whistle from a table in my livingroom and states:
"This is a recorder . . . right?"
I replied that the whistle isn't even a distant cousine to the recorder.
The other person did not agree and argued that the two at least were woodwinds and therefore closely related.
-The truth is folks . . . the relationship between the recorder and the whistle is roughly the same as you'll find
in cockroaches and human beings,-both being carbon based lifeforms.
-That's as far as I'm willing to go regarding the relationship between whistles and recorders.
"This is a recorder . . . right?"
I replied that the whistle isn't even a distant cousine to the recorder.
The other person did not agree and argued that the two at least were woodwinds and therefore closely related.
-The truth is folks . . . the relationship between the recorder and the whistle is roughly the same as you'll find
in cockroaches and human beings,-both being carbon based lifeforms.
-That's as far as I'm willing to go regarding the relationship between whistles and recorders.
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I think the original post is just playing on the long-standing jokes on the forum about recorders and how playing them gives you hairy palms.
(I used to play lots of sacred music on the recorder. Did I have hairy psalms? )
Recorders, whistles, and flageolets are all very close cousins, all being fipple flutes.
Many people who play one of these also play one or more of the others.
This practice is known as "cross-fippling," and seems to be gaining a slow, grudging acceptance in mainstream whistling society.
--James
(I used to play lots of sacred music on the recorder. Did I have hairy psalms? )
Recorders, whistles, and flageolets are all very close cousins, all being fipple flutes.
Many people who play one of these also play one or more of the others.
This practice is known as "cross-fippling," and seems to be gaining a slow, grudging acceptance in mainstream whistling society.
--James
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There were six-hole fipple flutes in Europe before the recorder, and they were pretty similar to recorders from the same time, so that it seems like the recorder was developed out of some kind of whistles. So no, that's not true. If you were talking about, say, the whistle and the contrabass rackett, then you'd be on to something.-The truth is folks . . . the relationship between the recorder and the whistle is roughly the same as you'll find
in cockroaches and human beings,-both being carbon based lifeforms.
I'm never offended when people ask if my whistle is a recorder. First off I'm honored since I consider the recorder a beautiful instrument (tho when I do play it, or whistle for that matter, it's not exactly so), second off I can't blame people for not knowing a semi-obscure folk instrument from a foreign country, and third off... whatever. Why bother to get irritated? Don't get irritated if you can help it, it's no fun
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If you look at the fingering for the first octave key of D scale on a C recorder, you'll see there's a vestigal D pennywhistle in there.TheSpoonMan wrote:There were six-hole fipple flutes in Europe before the recorder, and they were pretty similar to recorders from the same time, so that it seems like the recorder was developed out of some kind of whistles.
The fingering is the same, except maybe for a crossfingered F#. Then, if you look at the fingering for the key of G scale, you'll see again, the fingering is the same, except for the crossfingered Cnat, you use OXO OOOO on the recorder instead of OXX OOO that a lot of whistles use.
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Yes. Recorders are obvously a more highly evolved instrument, played by more highly evolved musicians.TheSpoonMan wrote:
There were six-hole fipple flutes in Europe before the recorder, and they were pretty similar to recorders from the same time, so that it seems like the recorder was developed out of some kind of whistles.
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Re: terrible
This is a set of recorders.emtor wrote:I overheard a most terrible statement today. Someone pics up a whistle from a table in my livingroom and states:
"This is a recorder . . . right?"
I replied that the whistle isn't even a distant cousine to the recorder.
This is a set of whistles from one of the world's most popular makers (maker of the above recorders).
Reasonable person
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Curiosity, Walden: did you ever get a Susato recorder?
How does it play?
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How does it play?
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