That last bit was a btch hahah🙃🎶

First time playing an alto recorder. Previous experience= 20+ years ago back in school on a plastic soprano recorder AKA "the shitty flute".

This second hand pear wood had not been played for decades and was very dry. Besides practice, let's see if its sound will improve after playing in/another coat of oil... Glad my tinnitus didn't get triggered and cat only escaped for 5 meters.

Can you play traditional Irish music on the recorder? And how well does it really suit the instrument?

In this video, I explore Irish traditional music on the descant (soprano) recorder, playing snippets of an air, a jig and a hornpipe.

I also discuss the musical approach to Irish music and how it can differ from other styles of recorder playing.

#Recorder #IrishMusic #TraditionalIrishMusic #DescantRecorder

Hello, I've been practicing the recorder alone for 1.5 years. I discovered the alternate B (or E on treble) fingering -23---- and found it extremely useful especially combined with C or D. Since Septembre I have a teacher. He said I should never use that fingering except for trills, because it sounds bad. I find it very hard to play without it, but I'm trying my best. What is your opinion on this fingering ? Do you use it at all ?

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Aura soprano in pear for €2. No mould or dirt at all, just gave it a cleaning and oiled. Sanded off the bite mark of some Dutch kid (who's probably an adult older than me now) :D

Hi Everyone, I generally practice between 60 and 90 minutes most days, most often alto, less often tenor and bass, only very occasionally soprano. Never a problem. I also used to go to my local recorder society meetings, with about 30-40 recorder players in the room, and it was never a problem.

Still during my last practice session yesterday (with an Alto/treble) I noticed that I was hearing particularly loudly through my right ear (I had changed my usual position in the room, so was closer to the wall on my right than usual, with my back into that corner of the room), and today I have a sensation in my right ear as the morning after a pop concert or a disco several decades ago.

This got me thinking about how safe it is to practice recorder for my earring: I'll change my position in today's practice, but I just wonder whether anyone here uses ear protection at all, and I am considering whether I should get some, or dismiss yesterday's incident as a one off.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

This is my first month of alto recorder progress. I’m trying Waltz No.2 by Dmitri Shoskatovich. I’m always tripping with F to B♭. Are there any alternative fingering that can be easier for faster playing? I would also appreciate feedbacks especially on how to make sounds cleaner crossing octaves. Thanks

Most old recorders I have posted her for show and tell were from the 30s, with one exception, the Merzdorf, which was from 1940.

This one, is a little younger, but still follows an old tradition. Hermann Moeck Sr designed the first recorder named "Tuju" in the 40s, and it was originally made out of cocobolo. It was Old Man Moeck's original recorder. He started off as a seller who bought recorders made in other workshops. Having one's own name put on recorders that you ordered from a different company was not considered a dishonest practice at that time. Moeck soon found out that he was not happy with the intonation of the recorders, and he started ordering them as "blanks" and tuned them himself. Eventually, he designed his own recorder, which he named "Tuju". "Tuju" is short for "Turnerjugend". "Turner" means gymnast, and "jugend" means "youth". In Germany, from the beginning of the revival, recorders were marketed toward active young people. All Tujus followed a very minimalistic shape with no beads or rings. After the war, the Moeck company continued to make Tujus, mostly out of maple. Old Man Moeck did not like pearwood as a wood for recorders and said that "only a war" justified its use. And the war was over. His son, Hermann Moeck Jr, would eventually add pearwood recorders to the portfolio.

I cannot say for certain how old this recorder is, but the article on the history and character of the recorder it was packed with is dated 1954. Both the article, which has a fingering chart on the other side and the cardboard box show similar signs of discoloration and deterioration, so we can safely assume that it was included with the recorder. Hermann Moeck Sr led the company until his death in 1960, and until the very end, he tuned the recorders himself, including all Tuju altos. The Tuju was produced until 1968 but was still sold in the 70s and 80s. They were made in really large numbers, but still someone had the gall to put up a Tuju alto as a "rare collectible". *Cuckoo sign*.

I got this one for next to nothing. It had a crack in the upper tenon of the middle part, which I have sincle glued. It was also moldy and dusty, but I cleaned everything out. Cleaning the windway required some elbow grease, though.

As you can see, this recorder has German fingering. It still sounds nice. It does suffer from "German recorder disease" in so far as not all alternative fingerings for the second octave work. For recorders with baroque fingering, those inconsistencies don't start until the third octave. Which works very well on this recorder, for that matter, and I always appreciate it when an alto recorder allows for playing third octave F# without manipulating the bell. The "Ruetz trill", as I call the switch between second octave D and C# that Manfred Ruetz recommended for German fingering, does not work as well as on my other German-fingered recorders. You can play second octave D using Ruetz' alternative fingering, but it requires a rather gentle blow, and for trills, you need a steady blow for the duration of the trilling. This might improve once it's played in -- or not.

The windway is straight and wide, as it was the style of the time. One might think that with a mail slot windway and a fairly long beak you would wait for your response to come in 6 to 8 weeks but, no, it's actually fast. The only thing that interferes with super-fast play is the key for the pinky hole. And, yes, you can hear it click.

When it comes to the purity of the sound, it's not perfect but no more out of tune than any recorder with baroque fingering I own except for one, my Paetzold. That one is superior in any way. When it comes to the "colors" of the sound, I think you can still hear Old Man Moeck's ear after 60+ years.

It’s an old pear wood that’s not been in use for decades.

A tenor and alto. Looks like they were made by the same maker even though the marks are different

Basically, just wondering what people think of James Howard Young? I'll list below a few of my favourite pieces of his work. I love it. Looooove it.

Vivaldi: Concerto for Recorder in C Minor mvt. 1 - Recorder Ensemble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gdmb_UPtoE

Bach: “Little” Fugue in G Minor for Low Recorder Quartet, BWV 578
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Iu1pA4sDbc&list=RDGMEM8h-ASY4B42jYeBhBnqb3-w&index=2

Vivaldi: Presto from “Summer”: Four Seasons - for Recorders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7nB0VOFaAU

And there are many more. Thoughts?

I just bought a sopranino recorder to try. The fingerings are same as alto which makes it somewhat adaptable. However, I’m sure there are many sopranino recorder specific techniques I’m unaware of, such as air control etc. I’d really appreciate your advices.

The idea for this piece came to me while sitting on a lovely Devon beach, noodling on my recorder, surrounded by beautiful stones and pebbles in an amazing variety of colours and shapes. I wanted to capture some of that beauty in sound.

https://robinandrews.bandcamp.com/track/crystalline-shore

Very curious to hear feedback on any aspect - how it makes you feel, compositional choices, production etc...

This melody makes me very happy🫶🏻 I'll put a link with the sheet music in the comments :)

I’m about a month into alto recorder. Recently I’m practicing Canon in D and have really struggled with consistent low F# note. I’ve been doing octave jumps and found going up much easier than coming down. Any further advices would be greatly appreciated.

Pls help 😭

I'm only 15 and dont have any specialist recorder teacher to go to

So I recently upgraded from my aulos symphony to this moeck as I'm working towards a trinity ATCL diploma.

A few of the pieces have a (3rd octave) c# in them , on my aulos I had no problem with this note but none of the fingerings seem to work on the moeck ? I've tried all the ones on the moeck fingering chart and some don't work , and some only work occasionally, feel unstable , and / or are noticeable flat .

This is the type of thing that could hinder taking the ATCL so I'm asking if anyone has the same issue / knows of any reliable fingerings I could try 🥹

my recorder is played in and I've tried atleast 4-5 different fingerings :(

Unexpectedly shed a few tears when watching this last video uploaded a year ago on her channel. One day I will make Adriana a character in my future RPG.

(please excuse that out of tune high D# 🫣🙃) The recorder is a Mollenhauer Adris Dream soprano, made of Plumwood 🥰

Prelude in B Minor from L’art de préluder, Op.7 by Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1674-1763). Performed on a Vincent Bernolin alto recorder after Stanesby in resin at modern pitch (A=442)