A bit OT: Recorder Recommendations

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 10:44 am

I would like to buy my wife a nice recorder, but I don't know enough about them. I have seen recommendations for the Mollenhauer Adri's Dream. Does anyone play recorder and have suggestions?

Also, has anyone played Jubilee's chromatic low whistle? Very curious about it.

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 11:17 am

morgan wrote:I would like to buy my wife a nice recorder, but I don't know enough about them. I have seen recommendations for the Mollenhauer Adri's Dream. Does anyone play recorder and have suggestions?

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More info here would be very helpful.. I am an avid recorder player, and would be willing to help you in any way I can.
Does your wife already play recorder?
What type of music does she hope to play on it?
How much do you want to spend?
The more you can tell us, the better.

Far as I know, the Adri's Dream only comes in a soprano-- it looks pretty interesting, but I have not tried one ( but would ike to).

Feel free to e-mail me off the board, if that is easier.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 12:07 pm

Or just talk about it here.

I like reading about recorder.

RoyalGoldReps · Post by **RoyalGoldReps** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 12:35 pm

Keep this on list please.

Steven

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 12:51 pm

Thanks for the kind offers!

OK: My wife in brief (not in briefs!):

She already plays recorder and is pretty good. She plays Baroque (double holes) and does many styles, from hymn arrangements to folk to classical. She owns a Yamaha and is looking for something with better intonation and richer sound. She also has a degree in music, a drop-dead beautiful mezzo voice, and is a genius.

I would spend around a hundred bux.

Thomas-Hastay · Post by **Thomas-Hastay** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 1:07 pm

Hi Morgan

Have a look at "The Recorder Homepage" for starters

http://classicalmus.hispeed.com/nickl/recorder.html

There are other good sites, but this is the most informative(IMO).

Thomas Hastay.

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 1:25 pm

Thomas--

That link is dead.

Thomas-Hastay · Post by **Thomas-Hastay** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 1:38 pm

Morgan

I just checked it. It works fine for me(?) Use
http://www.google.com/
and search for "The Recorder Homepage". Maybe your server can't establish a link(?)

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 1:49 pm

OK. Got it. By doing the search I also found out that Michala Petri has a page. I heard her on the radio once and simply could not believe that she was playing a recorder.

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 6:25 pm

Franz Bruggen is also worth a listen or two.

A friend of mine, Jarod New, has a plastic Zen-On Bressan copy which actually plays very well, and is a good inexpensive way to get a good recorder to learn on.

In wood, if you can still find them, Adege made some extremely nice exotic hardwood recorders. The ones I have were voiced by Phillip Levin before being sold, and are lovely instruments, historical copies of Terton orginals in blackwood and rosewood. At the time I bought them they weren't super-expensive.

--James

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 6:40 pm

This seems like a good place to ask this....

Are the last holes on wooden recorders easier to feel than the plastic ones?

I've played a Gill and another plastic one that I can't remember what it was, and the bottom holes feel like one hole to me (I have pinky problems), so I can't play it right. If somebody makes a recorder where the bottom two holes are more 'pronounced', I'd appreciate knowing about it.

The larger recorders that have keys - do they transpose?

(Sorry to piggy-back a post.)

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 6:21 am

That $100 price range limits you a bit. You MIGHT find a good used wooden recorder from Von Huene, etc. One very interesting option is a revoiced plastic from Collins woodwinds:

http://leecollins.com/custom.htm

They take a good quality plastic recorder ( Soprano or Alto), then resurface the plug with cedar like in a good wooden instrument, revoice the recorder and tweak the tuning, etc. These play VERY well indeed.
If you don't like the plastic sheen and feel, you can gently rub down the surface with 0000 steel wool in a twisting motion. This gives an instrument which looks and feels remarkably like an ebony recorder. This is probably your very best bet for $100.

Zubivka · Post by **Zubivka** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 7:27 am

brewerpaul wrote:Far as I know, the Adri's Dream only comes in a soprano-- it looks pretty interesting, but I have not tried one ( but would ike to).

Also in Alto, but you made me wonder and I checked Mollenhauer's page to see if it could be discontinued. Apparently the Adri line is the big hit for Mollenhauer. Now they even offer (well, at a price...) an Alto in African blackwood (don't be misled by its German name "ebenholz") and even a Tenor. It's absolutely superb! Hey, who was looking for a low D-minor?

Btw, Susato's online store carried the alto and soprani last time I checked, and here's one soprano on eBay :
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... gory=16230

The seller seems to do quite abusiness with new recorders. He recently had an Adri's alto, and now a
"modern" keyed alto (Mollenhauer/Pätzold)

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 8:08 am

Again, thanks for the assistance.

I think I will look into the Traumflote (Mollenhauer) some more and let all the fine Chiffmates know what I find.

mrosenlof · Post by **mrosenlof** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 8:40 am

Another good source is the Boulder Early Music Shop www.bems.com I bought a Moeck Flauto Leggero (or something like that) there a few years back. This is a Sycamore soprano, right about the price range you mentioned. I like it a lot, but play it only rarely.

The model I bought, but the BEMS web page lists what the current equivalent model from Moeck is.

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