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Post by walkingdecay on Jun 18, 2021 17:05:48 GMT
The beauty of Lucie Horsch's playing is a given but of equal wondrousness here is Thomas Dunford's always attentive and sympathetic accompaniment.
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Post by ocarolan on Jun 18, 2021 21:30:02 GMT
Wow! That was stunningly gorgeous - thanks Pete!
Keith
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Post by martinrowe on Jun 18, 2021 22:15:49 GMT
At the risk of betraying my obvious, to me, lack of knowledge, and asking what is probably an obvious question - that's a recorder isn't it. I really like the tone anyway. I really like all those twists and turns. thanks Pete, walkingdecay Martin
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Post by walkingdecay on Jun 18, 2021 23:40:12 GMT
At the risk of betraying my obvious, to me, lack of knowledge, and asking what is probably an obvious question - that's a recorder isn't it. I really like the tone anyway. I really like all those twists and turns. thanks Pete, walkingdecay Martin Yep. It's a tenor recorder. Same fingering starting on C as the descants (sopranos) that destroyed so many musical aspirations at school in the fifties and sixties but an octave lower, in the same range as a flute. There are three others in the family: the tiny sopranino, which I know little about other than that it sounds like Baby Clanger on speed; the alto, which sits between descant and tenor but annoyingly starts on F; and the bass, which both starts on F and is essentially a small tree with holes in it. The increasing sizes mean the finger spacings are correspondingly wider and the breathing and air pressure each requires are at variance, so how Lucie can switch between them without losing tuning or speed as she does baffles me. It's actually a pig of an instrument to manage in all sorts of ways and found its entree into school curriculums via Germany and the Nazis in the thirties, so how it found its way into British schoolrooms is a deeper mystery. Nevertheless, in the right hands...
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