TIL there’s a contra base recorder. They’re 2 meters tall.
The recorder is among the rare group of instruments that all but require mastery in order to produce anything resembling music. Not unlike the armpit, bagpipes, and spoons.
The recorder is like the guitar: just because generations of talentless kids inflicted them on their parents doesn’t mean they’re bad instruments incapable of producing good music. It’s just that most people have also heard good guitar and know what it can sound like, while very few have heard good recorder.
generations of talentless kids inflicted them on their parents
I’m not sure who actually is/was inflicting recorders onto whom here.
It was inflicted on both groups by the school district.
The worst part is that schools use the recorders with “German” fingerings which make a C major scale dead easy, but anything else is a nightmare.
So it’s next to useless for actually learning to play recorder, too.
But EXTREMELY useful for learning C flute
Probably Big Recorder. They’ve got their hands in lots of industries.
Ehhh…
Yeah I got through 3 minutes of it. This would be great at an 8th grade recital.
TIL that German „Blockflöte“ (literal translation „woodblock flute“) is recorder in English. A noun I normally connect to cassette recorder or record something.
Blokfluit in Dutch,
It was a mandatory instrument on the Rudolf Steiner school I attended back in the day. 20 kids blowing that thing horribly. My music teacher was actually a conductor of the North Holland Philharmonic Orchestra. Must have been torture for him.
🎵 Een smidje in zijn smidse 🎵
Thanks. This also confused me.
A noun I normally connect to cassette recorder or record something.
And here, I’m gonna break your mind: a cassette player isn’t a person playing the cassette. How sick is that eh? 🙂
Us classical musicians have always known this! Check out https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hggISFswKcw&pp=ygUZdml2YWxkaSByZWNvcmRlciBjb25jZXJ0b9IHCQkVCgGHKiGM7w%3D%3D And https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_AJMrub11Lk&pp=ygUXUXVlZW4gb2Ygc2hlYmEgcmVjb3JkZXI%3D
wow what links, you can safely delete the tracking parts: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hggISFswKcw and https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_AJMrub11Lk
Is there a tool you like to do this with? Never really share YouTube links so didn’t even think of if
Lately I’ve been getting into Sabrina Cruz’s Answer in Progress videos. She’s got an episode about the recorder that’s a lot of fun to watch but also informative.
Half is about right
