The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #110424   Message #2491821
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
12-Nov-08 - 12:11 PM
Thread Name: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Subject: RE: England's National Musical-Instrument?
I've got a recorder (plastic, made in Japan)

In dismay that my fingers were too big for the Garklein, I bought a plastic Aulos sopranino recorder in Manchester (Forsyths) on Saturday as something a) very cheap b) damn near unbreakable and c) ultra-portable; so portable is it, that when pulled into its 3 constituent parts it fits into the dinky little draw-string bag (bought from the Fair Trade shop in Liverpool on Monday for that very purpose), 14x9cms, along with a Chinese Kou-Xiang and three Vietnamese Dan-Moi with room to spare. This afternoon I recorded with it for the first time, a nice little no-age groove in the Traditional English Tertius Auris mode called Frigus Cavum, an MP3 of which you can download Here, gratis, secure, via YouSendIt.