G'day MudGuard, LTS & weepiper,

I bought some novelty recorders, knocked up from the leftovers of the boxwood from the standard (descant ... spoprano ... whatever) chinese-made recorders a local store brought in for 1999 Xmas stock.

These are, more or less, a half scale sopranino (the f above a Garklein), but made with only the 6 top-placed holes of a penny whistle (a farthingwhistle?) ... unfortunately, this means your fingers have to be less than 5 mm wide. What I did was to unite each pair of holes with a shallow depression formed with a fine ½-round file. This lets me play with 3 fingers ... and "half hole every second note!

Very entertaining for passing bats ... ? I remember tweeting away on my high octave G Generation, in the depths of the bush (er ... forest ... ?) of Tasmania many years back - and attracting an audience of weebills and other small birds ... probably wondering who the hell was trying to take over their territory.

regards,

Bob Bolton