I’ve been playing my recorder a lot lately,
and I find that long thick black hair is
growing on my fingers, especially on
the pads. This makes it hard to get
a good seal on the tone holes; also
my fingers get tangled together. I’ve taken to shaving them before I play. This provides some relief, but afterwards
the growth of hair is thicker and more
coarse. Am I alone in this? What can
I do? I don’t know anyplace to turn
but to you’all.
Lay off that LSD man, you’ll feel much better in about 24 hrs.
Ditch that recorder while you’re at it…
Jim,
I think you’ll find this condition may worsen as we approach October 31st (Samhain, Halloween), possibly culminating in some sort of perverse Lovecraftian transformation. After the 31st your condition should return to normal, and I would guess you’ll find yourself returning to the world of whistles and shunning the evil of recorders…at least till next year. 
-brett
That’s totally weird Jim. Send my your recorder. I want to play it with my head.
Steve-hoping you don’t have to shave your palms too.
AHHHOOOOOOO!Werewolves of London.Tried bleach? 
Mike
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NADS!
Jim, this sounds serious.
It’s time to call your family doctor… and minister while you’re at it. In the mean time, you might want to wear some latex… gloves that is.
Jim,
The bright side to this cloud over you is that at least they are not hares… See now, there is some good everywhere.
Didn’t your mother warn you?
If you don’t stop, you’ll go blind.
jb
Stay away from silver…
I’m grateful for all the suggestions.
I did try latex gloves, but the combo
of a latex covering over the underlying
fur (the word ‘fur’ is now
appropriate, I think)
produced hot hairy hands, a condition
considerably worse than hairy finger
pads. There’s nothing
the matter with taking moderate quantities of LSD, I believe, especially when you’ve
done it all your life. I
really don’t understand young people
these days.
No, I haven’t gone blind–
but I think that’s the direction of
a solution to the problem. One
mustn’t play a wind instrument, any
wind instrument (not just recorders)
furtively. I’m gonna let it all
‘hang out,’ as my generation used
to say, and see if things get less
‘hairy.’ If not, I’ll just knit a sweater. I’m outta the closet, sports fans! I like to
play the recorder! Thanks again..
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On 2001-10-22 13:37, brownja wrote:
Didn’t your mother warn you?
If you don’t stop, you’ll go blind.
You can still keep on playing until you need glasses…
Hey Jim,
Was that a picture of you that Dale had posted at the top of the website a while back, beating on some bones with an Overton? (Thom had a variation on that of beating on recorders, I think.)
Vinny
WOOF!
tosses a bone jim Good boy!
Poor old Jim, 'e 'ad 'airy fingers,
When 'e played recorder, 'e 'it some zingers.
A whistler said, “Jim cover them ‘oles,
Else the ‘air leaks out, spoilin’ your crans an’ rolls”.
“What’s this” cries Jim as 'he takes a look
"Well I’ll be darned, my recorder mistook,
“Thought a whistle I had, so was missing the thumb,
For a C & F whistler, I surely am dumb..”
By the way Jim, I too like to play recorder! We recorder players (who also like to whistle) have to stick together or else people may think that the recorder is the stuffy, old-fashioned aunt of the whistle family (heaven forbid)!!
What kind do you have/play? What kind of music do you like to play on it? Do you play the your whistle tunes on the recorder, or keep them separate?
WOOF!
OK, sorry to let a joke get in the
way of answering a question from
a chiffandfippler. I’ve played recorders
on and off since I was about 8, when
I learned to play them at summer camp.
I figured out how to get the high
register sometime in my 20s–but
my passion was the guitar. I don’t
read music so, while I love classical
and renaissance, etc. I don’t play that
on recorder–just whistle tunes or
whatever. I have a cheapy wooden
recorder; the best one I ever had
was a maple Moeck that I managed
to find in a shop in Katmandu. I lost
that some time ago in New Orleans,
much to my regret. I have an
old Adler alto, too. About 4 years ago
I took up whistles seriously.
I think it’s really cool that you have
a BA in recorder! What kind of recorder
do you have? And what do you play?
And with whom? Best wishes…
Jim,
Moecks are mighty fine. I used to have a grenadilla alto, and a maple tenor Moeck many years ago but they were stolen after a gig. Unfortunately, I didn’t know that their value had increased during the time I had them and they were not insured separately from my house policy so the insurance company only gave me $1000Cdn for them ( I had originally paid $135Cdn for the alto and $60Cdn for the tenor and the replacement price was close to $900Cdn just for the Alto!) Think of all the whistles I could have bought if only I was into whistles at that time! Actually I was very into Medieval/Renaissance music so I spent the insurance money on Kublicek Renaissance replica soprano & tenor recorders which I still play regularly though not nearly as much as Irish whistle. I find that my fingers get confused if I play my Irish tunes on the recorders (I tend to play on auto-pilot) so I play Irish trad on whistles and everything else on recorders. I also play sopranino, alto, bass & garklein at various solo or ensemble gigs, and bodhran & anglo concertina (which is loads of fun!) I am very, very lucky to be married to a musician and the 2 of us are able to eke out a living doing what I love most - making & teaching music. So play lots and be happy,and best wishes to you!
Sue