… on a recorder fingering chart?
I know this is almost as taboo as Lichen, but I recently acquired a recorder through an ebay purchase (It came as a package deal with a fife), and I was just looking at a fingering chart for the recorder, and for some of the really high notes, there is an indicator that says “Bell”. Does that mean I put the bell against my leg like you do with a UP chanter?
I believe so.
http://www.geocities.com/eclectus123/recorder/index.html
I wonder what that looks like when playing a Garklein.
BTW What kind of fife?
Ach. I got taken.
The auction was for a sopranino recorder, and a fife of ‘unknown origin’. The pics were bad, but the auction was ending soon, and the price was low. I was ‘assured’ the fife was wood, and was purchased new about 35 years ago. Got them both for $35, which I thought was real good for a 35-yo wooden fife, plus a cutesy little recorder.
Turns out the fife is plastic - a good plastic fife, but plastic nonetheless. I’m debating reneging on the sale due to false advertising (the only legal way to back out of an ebay deal), but for a plastic fife, it ain’t too bad - just not what I thought I was getting.
Still, the cute recorder might be kinda fun. Just another flutey thing to add to my collection …
Sorry to hear about the fife, is it one of the 11 hole Yamaha clones in brown plastic?
As for the fingering chart, not quite a garklein, the sopranino recorder would still take a bit of flexibility to plug the bell on your leg. Only the third octave that uses the bell, does recorder sound good in that range?
Brewerpaul would probably be a good person to ask about recorders if you run into a dead end here.
I can’t imagine playing a sopranino recorder with the bell against your leg. You’d have to bend really low. In fact anything but a bass recorder would be a challange.
Could you try to do something other than discourage people for once??? 