--- Caleb Hines <cph9fa@...> wrote:
> I play the Recorder, (and I don't mean "Mary
> had a Little Lamb"!). In fact,
> I play 3 sizes - Soprano, Alto, and Tenor - and
> I'm the Secretary of the
> "St. Louis Recorder Society."
Cool!
> For those who
> don't know, the recorder sounds
> similar to a flute (but alot nicer IMNSHO!),
Now I diesagree with that - you can always tell
(well, at least I have no trouble) the two apart.
Agree that the recorder sounds nicer.
> but is held straight up and
> down, like an oboe or clarinet. It's often
> taught as a first instrument in
> Grade School, hence the "Little Lamb"
> reference.
Along with the flutophone. :S
> There's also sizes larger
> than my Tenor which I don't play (Bass,
> ContraBass, and GreatBass) which
> are shaped more like bassons.
Ever tried one?
> The last of these
> (Great Bass) are very rare.
> I know a man who built one, and its like 8 feet
> tall!
! I built (from a kit) a great bass rackett. It's
like, 1 foot tall. ;))) Yet sounds a very nice
CCC.
> I also took a few piano lessons, and can bang
> around on the piano a bit if
> I've practiced the piece ahead of time, but I
> can't really play it fluently
> because I find it difficult to think about
> reading more than one part at once.
Yes, that's a thing that a lot of
instrumentalists have in switching from a
woodwind to piano. I started on piano and
migrated to wind instruments from there, so did
not encounter this problem. And was a good boost
for organ, where you get three staves and two
extra appendages in action.
> (It's like a wierd alien conlang where
> the aliens have more than one
> mouth, and can hold several conversations
> simultaneously! very mind-numbing)
>
> I definately do compose music (When I have time
> for it). In fact, I've been
> composing and arranging substantially longer
> than I've been conlanging. I
> usually go for an authentic Baroque style in my
> music, ocasionally straying
> into the Renaissance and "Classical" Eras.
Eek! Any pieces for clavichord in that baroque
corpus?
> I have a directory on my
> computer full of little random pieces that I've
> worked on (in MIDI format),
> but there's not a lot of complete stuff in
> there. Unfortunately, I'm really
> bad about completing projects, and college sort
> of slowed my composing pace
> way down. But I have a few fugues, some
> allegros from various sonatas and
> concertos, part of a suite, and some other
> stuff like that.
Nifty!
Padraic.
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