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O,K.,
Call me loopy,call me demented,call me deranged,call me perverted.Call me downright unmusical (o.k. Kevin,that's enough 'call me's').
But, today I bought a GARKLEIN!!!!!! :twisted: :moreevil: :devil: (maniacal laughter).
For those of your who haven't passed out in sheer TERROR,this is a super high RECORDER(can someone attend to that guy who's fainted at the back please?)pitched in 'C' a whole octave above the 'school' descant.
I tried a scale, and now my apartment is surrounded by Bats!
Thanks to the Geneva convention,I see that this WMD is restricted to an octave and a half.There is a (whistle)God.
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What kind of range you get outta the thing? I nearly ordered one one time, but read that the sopranino basically goes just as high.
Somehow I've wound up with two of the things....
My opinion is stupid and wrong.
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Post by kevin m. »

You call yourself VOMITbunny? This thing will make you go projectile! :boggle:
Nah,seriously,it's anice little horn-I just don't know what to do with it!
one and a half octave hornpipes? Birdcharming? general annoyance?
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When I saw the title of this thread, I thought it would be a discussion of possible whistle playing on a Meat Loaf album.
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Tell us something.: I play whistles. I sell whistles. This seems just a BIT excessive to the cause. A sentence or two is WAY less than 100 characters.

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kevin m. wrote:O,K.,
Call me loopy,call me demented,call me deranged,call me perverted.Call me downright unmusical (o.k. Kevin,that's enough 'call me's').
But, today I bought a GARKLEIN!!!!!! :twisted: :moreevil: :devil: (maniacal laughter).
For those of your who haven't passed out in sheer TERROR,this is a super high RECORDER(can someone attend to that guy who's fainted at the back please?)pitched in 'C' a whole octave above the 'school' descant.
I tried a scale, and now my apartment is surrounded by Bats!
Thanks to the Geneva convention,I see that this WMD is restricted to an octave and a half.There is a (whistle)God.
You are loopy. You are demented. You are deranged. You are perverted. You are downright unmusical.

.... and every other word like them that ends in -ate!

There, do you feel better now? :twisted: :moreevil: :devil:
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BrassBlower wrote:When I saw the title of this thread, I thought it would be a discussion of possible whistle playing on a Meat Loaf album.
Come to think of it, there's a bit of bagpiping in the BOOH2 album.
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BrassBlower wrote:When I saw the title of this thread, I thought it would be a discussion of possible whistle playing on a Meat Loaf album.
LOL! Me too! I was trying to figure out if I'd ever heard anything on that album with a whistle in it!

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The sopranino is actually fairly useful.
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vomitbunny wrote:The sopranino is actually fairly useful.
If your hands will fit.

I've always thought I had small hands (for a man, anyway) and I can play the sopranino, but it's an awfully tight squeeze. Since my main remaining interest in recorders is F Alto and C Tenor, I find Kevin's tiny beast rather frightening to contemplate.

Maybe I should get Generation F and G whistles, just to experiment with. Probably a LOT cheaper than the Garklein. And less likely to shatter glass!!! :o :o :o
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kevin m. wrote:I tried a scale, and now my apartment is surrounded by Bats!
I'm not surprised. How many people were brandishing them? :wink:
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vomitbunny wrote:The sopranino is actually fairly useful.
Vivaldi wrote a couple of concertos for sopranino that are killer good. Killer hard to play too. Usually these days you hear them on a piccolo.
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BRILLIANT, Nano. I owe you yet another pint.

(Good thing I don't know you; settling up would cost me a fortune!)

P.S. Thanks so much to all you guys for being so funny. I can't tell you how many times you've made my day over the dark & dreary months .....
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Post by glauber »

Seriously, i'm sure it sounds lovely. The high notes are really the best notes in a rec*rder. Nice and pure, not irritating (at least in a good recorder and someone who knows how to play it).
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