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Topic: Versatility of the Recorder (the woodwind instrument) |
Duane Reese
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Posted 30 Oct 2007 2:04 pm
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Click here to see a guy named Masato Honda play a medley on some recorders... Yup, that same instrument we all had to learn in the fourth grade. I could've guessed that it has more potential than one octave worth of diatonic, but this still knocked my socks off. |
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Larry Jamieson
From: Walton, NY USA
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Posted 31 Oct 2007 6:59 pm
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An amazing recorder player, for sure! There seem to be virtuosos on any instrument; recorder, ukelele, even that pedal steel guitar thing...
I play a little recorder, but not like that gentleman.
Larry J. |
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Andy Sandoval
From: Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 31 Oct 2007 7:15 pm
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Yeah, but can he play "hot cross buns"? |
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b0b
From: Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Tom Olson
From: Spokane, WA
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Posted 1 Nov 2007 6:59 pm
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That's funny -- I remember in the fourth grade we all had to buy these cheap white plastic recorders and learn to "play" them. We all sounded more like a bunch of people "breaking wind" than a true section of woodwinds
But, there was this one geeky girl who learned to play the fire out of her cheap little recorder. She got to do a solo performance in front of the whole school. |
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Bob Blair
From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Posted 1 Nov 2007 7:29 pm
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Hey, I was the guy in my class who got to play a solo in the Xmas pageant! I never progressed much farther, but do have a nice wooden soprano and I'm still a fan of the instrument. |
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Russ Wever
From: Kansas City
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Posted 1 Nov 2007 9:21 pm How
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. . . and how does it record?
~Russ |
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Andy Volk
From: Boston, MA
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Posted 2 Nov 2007 2:46 am
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If you want to hear some amazingly beautiful recorder playing, check out Michala Petri. Her Handel recording with Keith Jarrett is lovely and Jarrettt uncharacteristically,even leaves the moans, groans and ego at home.
amazon.com/Handel-Recorder-Sonatas-George-Frideric |
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