quartertone recorder - Tui St. George Tucker

Hi Yahya and all tuners.!

Tui St. George Tucker passed away fairly recently and I am planning to play
her second Sonata for alto recorder on March 25th in NYC. Tui was, herself, a
virtuoso recorderist, included a quartertone chart with her music. Together,
and with Robert Jurgrau, now her heir, we were guest editors of Ear Magazine's
(East Coast) Microtonal Issue.

It is really easy to play quartertones on a recorder. Honestly. One uses
the right alternate fingerings. There is one pitch that requires one to lift a
leg so as to point the tube towards full closure (lowering the instrument a
quartertone, to F 1/4 flat).

Tui introduced an autochtonus American style of recorder playing for
contemporary music, one that involved a Romantic style of vibrato. I've played the
"Hypertonic" before and must be keen not to over work my right hand as it proves
a strain with dangerous consequences: my right hand pinky and 4th finger
become numb, and I miss the holes). I now work at it in a different manner so
that I can release a full virtuosity.

all best, Johnny

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Hello Johnny

Can I get a copy or purchase a
copy of the quartertone
chart for the recorder?

I have a recorder, what kind
of recorder can I play to get
the quartertones? Plastic or
wooden types?

Thanks
Joel

--- Afmmjr@... wrote:

> Hi Yahya and all tuners.!
>
> Tui St. George Tucker passed away fairly recently
> and I am planning to play
> her second Sonata for alto recorder on March 25th in
> NYC. Tui was, herself, a
> virtuoso recorderist, included a quartertone chart
> with her music. Together,
> and with Robert Jurgrau, now her heir, we were guest
> editors of Ear Magazine's
> (East Coast) Microtonal Issue.
>
> It is really easy to play quartertones on a
> recorder. Honestly. One uses
> the right alternate fingerings. There is one pitch
> that requires one to lift a
> leg so as to point the tube towards full closure
> (lowering the instrument a
> quartertone, to F 1/4 flat).
>
> Tui introduced an autochtonus American style of
> recorder playing for
> contemporary music, one that involved a Romantic
> style of vibrato. I've played the
> "Hypertonic" before and must be keen not to over
> work my right hand as it proves
> a strain with dangerous consequences: my right hand
> pinky and 4th finger
> become numb, and I miss the holes). I now work at
> it in a different manner so
> that I can release a full virtuosity.
>
> all best, Johnny
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Joel Hickman
<joelhickman_1999@y...> wrote:
>
> Hello Johnny
>
> Can I get a copy or purchase a
> copy of the quartertone
> chart for the recorder?
>
> I have a recorder, what kind
> of recorder can I play to get
> the quartertones? Plastic or
> wooden types?

Hi Joel, Johnny and others.

Even I am not a recorder player, I've started to compile a
quarter-tone fingering table for contralto recorder some time ago. At
that time, I used a borrowed Baroque Yamaha in PVC.

So far, I have fingerings for all quarter-tones from F#| 4 (first
octave), up to E| 6, but only very few alternative ones.

However, there is the need to a recorder player check the fingerings.

If there is someone interested, I shall publish (online) my fingering
table under a free license (one from GNU and CC licenses) so that
people can get it, improve it and redistribute it. It is still in
manuscript form, I want make an electronic version.

Regards,
Hudson Lacerda

PS.: Does someone know recorder players to help (or perhaps a recorder
player list)?

> Hi Joel, Johnny and others.
>
> Even I am not a recorder player, I've started to compile a
> quarter-tone fingering table for contralto recorder some time ago. At
> that time, I used a borrowed Baroque Yamaha in PVC.
>
> So far, I have fingerings for all quarter-tones from F#| 4 (first
> octave), up to E| 6, but only very few alternative ones.
>
> However, there is the need to a recorder player check the fingerings.
>
> If there is someone interested, I shall publish (online) my fingering
> table under a free license (one from GNU and CC licenses) so that
> people can get it, improve it and redistribute it. It is still in
> manuscript form, I want make an electronic version.
>
> Regards,
> Hudson Lacerda
>
> PS.: Does someone know recorder players to help (or perhaps a recorder
> player list)?
>

If I knew I could get quarter tones out of a recorder, I'd take it up
in a moment. I may even have one lying around. I'm quite well versed
on the pennywhistle, so I don't anticipate too much trouble moving to
a recorder, as long as I have fingering charts.

This seems like a great way to make higher order scales playable, I
generally find more complex fingerings to be far more approachable
than having more fingers.

Hi,

Yesterday I digitalised my quatertone *fingering table*.

You can download a compressed low-quality jpeg version from:
http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/hfmlacerda/abc/recorder-fng.tgz
(scanned from 12 A4 pages, size 1.3M)

Please don't redistribute it yet (you can divulge the URI):
http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/hfmlacerda/abc/COPYRIGHT.txt

(Note also that the copyright cannot applie to the fingerings itself, only to the actual formatted table. The fingerings are free, of course!)

As soon as I figure how put that information in an easily editable digital format, I will release that fingering table under a free license, as I already said.

Cheers,
Hudson

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