Anyone play recorder?

I watched a mesmerising youtube vid of a tenor recorder last night. Beautiful it was

Thank you so much for this prompt.  I used to be a Gryphon in my university days but have not heard them for many, many years.  In my youth I even played one of their tracks during my attempt at being a DJ on university radio, and this is the track I chose:   

I am now going off to wallow in nostalgic recollections about all-night parties, drunken concerts, very long hair and the pain that scrumpy can inflict.   


Brian

My daughter is conservatorium trained (she started learning when she was about 5) and plays baroque music on recorder in a variety of ensembles. The combination of recorder and harpsichord is magic, and the addition of violin, viola da gamba and soprano even better. Bach, Telemann, Corelli and Purcell and heaps of lesser known composers pumped out some marvellous stuff that works well for recorder. There's also some strange late twentieth century recorder music for those who like that sort of thing, a field dominated by Japanese composers.

But wooden recorders of reasonable quality are expensive, and very good hand made ones are very expensive. Acoustic guitarists would see a pattern here. In addition, serious performers need recorders in the range of sizes, and often have to have duplicates in baroque tuning in addition to 'modern' pitch.

The better plastic recorders (Yamaha springs to mind) are effective tools for finding out about the instrument and the music, and it only takes a few months to get through the squeaky bat noises stage, in my observation. The violin was much much worse, believe me.

And anyway, I think Jimi played recorder on one of his album releases, and look how his career took off.

Kym

I wonder how one of these compare to a good wooden one.

This is what I heard the other night.

Aye, not cheap!

Mollenhauer recorder