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Yet another Josh :donor:

My first attempt was almost a success!

#3dprinted #recorder #garklein

This is my first instrument design, which is a supra-sopranino recorder, or also called a garklein.

Importantly: IT PLAYS!

However there's a problem - ?my old slicer had a bug that generated reversed resin images, so I had to re-flip to correct. Turns out that big was fixed 🙄 so my print is reversed fingering.

But for a version 1 initial iteration, it actually plays properly!

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Yet another Josh :donor:

#sca #music #instrument #recorder #functional3dprinting #3dprinting

So I'm trying something I've wanted to do for quite some time, and that is to create a 3d printable renaissance and medieval instrument library!

There are hole-drill and position charts taken from renaissance instruments... And its those I'm using to recreate my instruments!

My instrument families I want to address are:

Recorders
shawms
crumhorns
cornetts
serpents
racketts

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Jon Hancock

Remembering the correct baroque recorder fingerings and trying to sight read musical notation proved a bit much, so I've taken a pencil to the page and made things slightly easier for myself. Once I get these fingerings (and how they change across the octave) in my head I shall get back to learning to read music. There's only so far I can push my foggy brain before it topples over and goes to sleep facedown in the mud.

Black and white photograph of sheet music for the tune Portsmouth, from John Playford's 1701 collection The Dancing Master, with my Zoot electronic instrument lying across it. The names of the notes have been pencilled below the musical notation. The Zoot is a long, narrow rectangle, dark grey, with a squarish grey end cap from which a short tube emerges. Several small brass screws are visible in pairs along the body.
#MusicalInstruments#Zoot#Recorder
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Jon Hancock

Now that I'm reasonably comfortable jotting down brief ukulele phrases, I have of course started something else for which I don't have a quick shorthand, largely because I have not yet learned how to finger each note. There is bound to be an easier way than doodling simplified recorders to show me what to play, but it works for now.

Photo of a scribbled note showing (roughly) how to play the main saxophone part from the Wham! song "Careless Whisper". Consists of note names along with a ^ to denote a jump in octave and ~ to show that a note should be sustained. There are also little drawings of recorder finger holes, showing the relevant combination of covered and uncovered holes to produce a given note.
#Music#Recorder#CarelessWhisper
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Jon Hancock

In the unlikely event that you find yourself needing virtual instrument files of baroque and renaissance recorders, to use with software like Garageband, I finally found a library of free downloads. Follow the link, then click on the Community Edition:

versilian-studios.com/the-reco

There are WAV and .SFZ format files. Seems like every program out there has flutes, whistles, oboes and even Cor Anglais, but recorders are weirdly rare.

#Music#Sampling#Recorder
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Pauliina Lievonen

Sometimes teaching days develop a theme. One day this week it was ”accept the blips”.

On the recorder, if one isn’t precise enough moving their fingers from one note to another, there can be an extra sound in between the desired notes.

One way to avoid hearing those blips is to play every note slightly short and move the fingers during the silence between. Beginners often do this, consciously or not.

But that way one can never play a smooth, singing melodic line. So one needs to practise blowing a continuous airstream from one note to the next, and accept that the blips will become audible. And work on finger precision. Anyway, lots of blips this week. :)

#music#recorder#teaching
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tobadzistsini

When he dared peek, Bo was alone in the basement.
Rumpled on the floor, like a wetsuit, was Hugo's skin and clothes. He toed the heap then jumped back.
Hugo was gone.
Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out the mini #recorder.
He forgot to hit record.
Even if he waited the remaining twenty-something minutes, the FBI weren't coming. Yet another bluff.
Defeated, he balled up what remained of Hugo to dispose of it.
If only he could find that damned notebook. It'd mean tenure. 5/5
#wss366

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