The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #77767   Message #3103022
Posted By: SteveMansfield
26-Feb-11 - 10:26 AM
Thread Name: Recorder sounds like a whistle
Subject: RE: Recorder sounds like a whistle
I have about 30 recorders myself, from bass to sopranino.

What, no garklein? Useful for summoning the dogs from the other side of the field, and guaranteed to cut through the wall-of-soundest of massed melodeons? You need really thin fingers to get much purchase on a garklein, and you wouldn't want it to be the only recorder you ever played, but they're great things.

Saw Laura Carter playing a lot of recorder last night with the rest of her excellent band The Old Dance School, and she gets a really nice whistle-like tone on some of the faster numbers.