TIL - the recorder can actually make decent music. Ralf Bienioschek performs BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY a Recorder Cover of the song by QUEEN. And it's a good cover.
TIL that German „Blockflöte“ (literal translation „woodblock flute“) is recorder in English. A noun I normally connect to cassette recorder or record something.
Blokfluit in Dutch,
It was a mandatory instrument on the Rudolf Steiner school I attended back in the day. 20 kids blowing that thing horribly. My music teacher was actually a conductor of the North Holland Philharmonic Orchestra. Must have been torture for him.
🎵 Een smidje in zijn smidse 🎵
It's due to its historical use as an aid to musical composition and writing down music.
Thanks. This also confused me.
Same in Spanish. They are simply called "flauta" ("flaute" literal transltion).
A noun I normally connect to cassette recorder or record something.
And here, I'm gonna break your mind: a cassette player isn't a person playing the cassette. How sick is that eh? 🙂
I translated from German „Kassettenrekorder“ which is tape deck in English, I guess.
Ehhh...
Yeah I got through 3 minutes of it. This would be great at an 8th grade recital.
I wonder what it would sound like without any other instruments. Seemed like the piano carried it a bit.
Us classical musicians have always known this! Check out https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hggISFswKcw&pp=ygUZdml2YWxkaSByZWNvcmRlciBjb25jZXJ0b9IHCQkVCgGHKiGM7w%3D%3D And https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_AJMrub11Lk&pp=ygUXUXVlZW4gb2Ygc2hlYmEgcmVjb3JkZXI%3D
wow what links, you can safely delete the tracking parts: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hggISFswKcw and https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_AJMrub11Lk
Telemann also has a nice recorder concerto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D-y2kJU0lg
Lately I've been getting into Sabrina Cruz's Answer in Progress videos. She's got an episode about the recorder that's a lot of fun to watch but also informative.
I've been meaning to watch that. Might as well do it now
TIL there's a contra base recorder. They're 2 meters tall.
a close cousin of the recorder is the tin whistle, and listening to a minute of mary bergin's whistling will quickly shatter any illusion that fipple flutes are toys
Half is about right
I remember seeing a guy busking at a local farmer's market with a baritone recorder and it was one of the most haunting and beautiful sounds I've ever heard. Any instrument can sound good in skilled hands.
If you're getting into treating the recorder as a serious instrument, you might want to check out some Team Recorder videos :D
The recorder is like the guitar: just because generations of talentless kids inflicted them on their parents doesn't mean they're bad instruments incapable of producing good music. It's just that most people have also heard good guitar and know what it can sound like, while very few have heard good recorder.
I'm not sure who actually is/was inflicting recorders onto whom here.
It was inflicted on both groups by the school district.
Probably Big Recorder. They've got their hands in lots of industries.
The next cheapest melodic instrument would be a 6 hole flute, but that takes a bit of practice just to make a noise. Recorders make noise for anyone that can breath. It's the wood sticks of instruments, anyone can use them, most will learn some tiny amount about music, and a very tiny number will learn actual musical skills.