Any Recorder Players Here?

[Lorraine]

I've got quite long fingers and am finding the alto a bit of a stretch, but I trust that it's probably because I'm not used to it yet.

[Fox]

I love "messing about" with my recorder and penny whistles ... I learned a sort of recorder in my first music classes in primary school, "flutophones" I think they were called ...

[LadyCelt]

Yes, they were called flutophones! LOL

<img src="http://www.hohnerusa.com/images/flutophone.jpg">

Except the ones we had in 2nd grade weren't near as nice as this one!

[wyeuro]

hi.  i've got several recorders.  my best sopranino is cracked after years in the desert, but it is still very responsive and i use it for magical purposes, playing with the fauns or fairies for example and projecting my melodies in my imagination to a destination, a piece of land, a sick friend, or some political situation that needs healing.  my other one is soft and purring and i play it often for pleasure.  it likes to play folk tunes while the 'best' one plays free-flowing spontaneous melodies.  

i've still got my old school recorder, a descant, which has a lovely floaty tone and have aquired a secondhand cheapy that has a woody voice and a sad, thuddy sort of moodiness, but it likes to be loved!

i've also got a tenor, which is also rather dull and woody - wooden play if ya didden get tough with it - you really have to blast away to get it reverberent and deep, but then it's melifluous enough.  my best friend stepped on my very expensive alto which i'd just begun to learn to play, and guess what, she's still my best friend!!!!

if the aerial spirits, faeries and fauns know you are playing for them, they'll help you though you may not be aware of it at first - it's a relationship that grows...  you have to take your recorder or flute to a place where you feel their presence - or create a place indoors with plants or flowers, pictures and other decor effects, and music to call them, and when you feel them around you, whisper it, or tell them out loud, and believe it!  they'll help you in ways you won;t be able to doubt.  

yeah, never despise the old recorder.  some beautiful baroque music, by vivaldi and others, exists using recorders of different kinds in delightful conversation with each other.  have joy!!!!

wyverne /|\

[Paladin]

I bought an alto about a month ago...it sure is nice to play. Not too high- pitched, but makes a good sound for the melody. I took it to school to play some songs for the students and let them sing along. Some of the classes are just beginning to learn soprano recorder...and while they love it, everyone within a kilometre dons their ear protectors due to the students' enthusiasm.

[panidaho]

It was a dark and eerie night...
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I must have made all the males in the area jealous, by 'advertising' my 'territory'.  

Oh, my!  Thanks for the laugh!  I needed that this morning!  lol

I'm learning to play the native american flute, but I need to take more time to practice.  I'm sure if there were elk around here I'd have been "serenaded" as well as a result of some of the "music" I've been making!

Teresa

[Spirit Bear]

I have several recorders (sopranino - soprano - alt - tenor) baroque and renaissance models.
The last years I don't play often anymore, but when I was young I graduated music academy with the recorder as prime instrument.
I loved to play Vivaldi, Telemann,Corelli, Respighi....