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  1. Wood or Metal Clarinet Article

    Speaking of metal albert clarinets, there are current ones (and boehm) made by Martin Foag. https://musik-foag.de/en/hohe-klarinetten/ And if you keep digging, you find the contra-alto with cable keywork. Metal bodied, naturlich...
  2. How to bore a bore? Recorder

    Super late reply. "The Amateur Wind Instrument Maker" by Trevor Robinson has suggestions on making effective reamers. I have not tried this myself (just trying to make my life harder making square bore instruments), but this book has a lot of useful information on instrument building in...
  3. Lurkers :)

    As a frequent lurker, hi. There are rarely other recorderists here, so I don't post or comment much. But I find wind instrument design/history minutiae fascinating.
  4. Glissando on a recorder

    Michala Petri has some amazing glissando skills, on a sopranino no less. I'd imagine the smaller tone holes add to the difficulty. At 2:07 in this video.
  5. Why is tenor much harder?

    I'd suspect leaks in your right hand. Try going slow, put your right hand on a low note, then stop and examine the fingers, how well they are covering the holes. I find the tenor more forgiving on breath pressure, but the 211 is keyless, so it may have some compromises in bore design to be...
  6. Speakers. A little off topic, but you have to have something to listen through ...

    Getting possibly further off topic, for WX5 I always wanted to purchase or build a spherical speaker array. Something like these: http://isobelaudio.com/products/ I already have an acoustic image Contra (originally for bass, but turned out to be a great utility amp), and playing the WX5...
  7. Exotic Tenor Recorder builds?

    As Pete mentioned, the Silberton and the more recent machined aluminum recorder by Orth are there. Also Mollenhauer made one of their Helder Tenors in clear acrylic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P79hxYTVlM8 There are carbon fiber whistles made by Carbony: https://carbony.com Low...
  8. Fipple head / lip plate

    Just to add since it was not mentioned, that type of attachment was actually called a "cheater". A google image search will show some other examples, that might help refine your design...
  9. A performance on the Piri, a traditional Korean double reed

    I watch this video seemingly often, enjoying the control of dynamics, vibrato, and pitch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaEGC_vALRQ I only found this video by looking at the Korean translation of the title of the Piri wikipedia page, and then searching for that on youtube. Not being a...
  10. G. Rudolf Uebel

    I just wanted to share this Uebel Bb clarinet that I came upon on ebay. I keep a search for Uebel saved, as I'd like to think I can get one of his aluminum flutes someday. I had no idea this would pop up...
  11. Tenor?

    If you have not already found the Dolmetsch online lessons... http://www.dolmetsch.com/method.htm You might also be interested in The Modern Recorder Player by Walter von Hauwe. It has a great level of detail regarding fundamental technique.
  12. Help! Does a recorder embouchure rely at all on teeth?

    In short: No teeth. Your lips have to be only firm enough to prevent a leak, and air pressure is low. You may run into used student level recorders that look like they have been used as a dog toy, however that is in no way necessary or desired. An overview on holding the recorder can be found...
  13. Recorder assistance please

    I have not tried those specific recorders, so take my advice with a few grains of salt. Also, there will be meandering. Both the Prima and the Waldorf seem good. The Canta is probably also good, but perhaps just doesn't appeal to me. You might add to your list on consideration a Kung...
  14. Curvy headjoints

    No experience with these, however I end up reading about ergo/bent headjoints when reading about Giorgi flutes. I had recalled seeing this, another available vertical headjoint. This is in fact more expensive. http://www.drelinger.com/brochure/uprite_brochure1.htm On the low end there are...
  15. Riccardo von Vittorelli

    This came up on ebay (via my search alert for csakans). http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wooden-C-flute-Csakan-and-Kaval-keyed-concert-level-/141102744296?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20da6102e8 EDIT: Just to add, appears to be a kaval but with boehm-ish keywork, and with multiple heads. It doesn't...
  16. Which Moeck Tuju tenor is this?

    Disregarding the left hand pinky/side key, that appears to be German fingering. Can't be totally sure, but even from an angle, that #4 is looking too big to be otherwise. If you haven't already gathered, german fingering instruments are generally avoided. http://www.moeck.com/cms/?id=194&L=1...
  17. Moeck 229 soprano maintenance

    I am going to put a disclaimer on my response: I am not an expert. But I hate seeing your post go without a reply (especially when I can't stand the recent yahoogroups revamp (when I could hardly stand using yahoogroups before (which is where the most active online recorder discussions are)))...
  18. Where can I get Flute building materials?

    This is not something I have ever seen available via the web. Contacting a metals dealer via telephone might be the best try. I suspect because of the specificity of bore size (19mm) and the variety of wall thicknesses that (western concert) flute makers do one of two things: get tubing that...
  19. "RR" soprano recorder, designer or manufacturer id?

    I spotted this on ebay and within about 10 seconds had purchased it. So far in my googling I have found no information about the possible designer or manufacturer, including searching the recorder maker database (http://www.recorderhomepage.net/makers.html). It is resin/plastic, however has...
  20. Should I?

    A couple of other reasons you might not need to buy Finale: http://musescore.org/ http://www.lilypond.org/ http://www.laborejo.org and more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_scorewriters
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