Re: quartertone recorder

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 "hfmlacerda" wrote:

[snip]
>
> 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.

Hudson,

Please do!

Regards,
Yahya

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I have a bamboo tenor sax made by Angel Sampedro del Rio (Spanish
version of site also available):
http://www.unmundodebambu.com.ar/pruebai.htm

It uses German recorder fingering. Intonation on this thing can be
tricky on the lower notes, as it becomes increasingly sensitive to
what goes on in the mouthpiece - lip pressure can affect pitch, breath
can affect whether or not harmonics get triggered. But when I find
the mouthpiece portion of the instrument, I'll start messing with it
again.