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Thread #166378 Message #4000174
Posted By: Jack Campin
10-Jul-19 - 01:40 PM
Thread Name: Buying recorders (descant & treble)
Subject: RE: Buying recorders (descant & treble)
Mo is not a beginner. And descant and alto have identical fingering systems, they just use different pitches.
Learning alto is easy if you just do it. If you play by ear there's nothing to learn. To learn to read, just drop the C recorder for about 3 weeks and only read alto music. Then start learning to switch. There is no "try".
All even fractionally serious recorder players over the last 500 years have learned to read at pitch for different sizes. It's basically the same conceptual issue pipers play when switching between A bagpipes and D whistles - the vast majority of pipers can do it with hardly a thought.