Hello -- a total wind newbie from soCal
Greetings to all from an absolute, utter, and untrammeled wind newbie. I quite literally haven't the damnedest clue what I'm doing, so it should be fun.
I've played piano since I was Very Wee Indeed, almost all classical, and currently play and write, and decently I think. I've been playing viola for a bit although as a beginner I'm of course quite bad at it. It was attractive to me to try a non-ET instrument and a portable one besides, and to me a viola is like a violin that sounds like the illegitimate love child of Steve Perry and Aretha Franklin, so who wouldn't love it?
However, I was also interested in an even more portable instrument that I could travel easily with and that wouldn't get me sniffed by bomb dogs and sent through the porno scanner at the airport (unlike the travel viola I just ordered), and where I might only have to
moderately murder myself just to learn to get it not to moo at me. I heard a YouTube recording of a tenor recorder and liked the sound much better than the thing I played as a freshman in high school, and since I have big hands already, I figured I'd give it a go.
Well, it's only literally just come in the mail, and I have yet to put it together and give it a go. I have never before in my
life played Sumpin Whut Gits Blowed Inta, so this should be interesting for me. Maybe not so much for my neighbors, who already suffer through my beginner string playing. It's a pity that the piano is the one I can actually play decently, but it's also the one that comes with headphones!
Anyhow, I love classical music of all eras, opera (especially Baroque), and stadium rock. I've done some work and am planning to do more on arranging my favorite Haendel arias for piano and solo instrument, mostly violin and viola. Maybe I can post the sheet for any wind instruments that can play in those ranges.
Anyhow, happy to be here and sorry for the long ramble. I have a whooooooooooooooooole lot to learn about this thing. I'm still sort of getting used to the idea of having to clean spit out of an instrument.
Any recommendations on good tenor recorder method books will be gratefully accepted.