Re: Intervals enharmony question

[J Martin Rushton]

On 01/05/18 10:08, Hans Åberg wrote:
> 
>> On 1 May 2018, at 11:00, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hans Åberg <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>>> On 1 May 2018, at 10:34, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Paid performers.  Recorder performances are a thing in primary school
>>>> contexts already.
>>>
>>> The recorders used in schools are an idea from Carl Orff, with the
>>> idea that it is inexpensive. Therefore, one made a modern recorder
>>> tuning that should be simpler, but without the capacity of the Baroque
>>> tuning. But, as it turn out, it is a bad instrument to start playing
>>> when little, because the fingers motoric is not fully developed. So
>>> that got the recorder a bad reputation instead.
>>>
>>>> I remember some performance from secondary school where a pair of
>>>> prim girls were playing, I think, a duet on soprano recorder (I don't
>>>> even think an alto was involved) from some booklet, with the
>>>> intonation to be expected and everybody clapped politely.  The
>>>> proceeded to WHEEEEEEEE blow out their mouthpieces, then played
>>>> another piece.  WHEEEEEEE.  And another.  WHEEEEEEE.  I think they
>>>> proceeded to murder the whole booklet.  WHEEEEEEE.  Probably not more
>>>> than 20 pieces or so.  WHEEEEEE.
>>>
>>> Give thanks to Carl Orff for that.
>>
>> The recorders were merely the weapon.  The booklet contained the
>> ammunition and the idea of a cartridge clip is usually not to empty it
>> all in one go.
>>
>> At any rate, I am sure that Orff is in an afterlife where angelic little
>> beings are playing recorder to him.
> 
> Or devilish little creatures playing the soprano recorders used in schools.
> 
Have a listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcI8KV4ftCk and then
tell me the recorder isn't a serious instrument.  If you want _real_
agony, try listening to beginners on a violin - the cat's revenge.

A week or so ago I was at a concert by Red Priest featuring Piers Adams
on recorder.  Absolutely fabulous; you could hear a pin drop, even with
an audience roughly 50% schoolgirls.  It made me realise how little I've
learnt in half a century of playing.  I'll go and cry into my beer.

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