It gets a bad rap because it's generally the first instrument children play and it's annoying as fuck when it's played poorly.
Listen to 30 children poorly play hot cross buns on the recorder and tell me you like the recorder.
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@[email protected] Come up with a list of 10 band names to suit a band consisting of 50 year old women playing internal duct flutes
Certainly, here are 10 band names that might suit a group of 50-year-old women playing internal duct flutes:
- FluteMatriarchs
- Duct Divas
- Resonant Rhythms
- FluteFusion50
- MellowTones
- Silver Serenades
- Ducts of Wisdom
- Harmonic Maturity
- Eternal Echoes
- WisdomWind Ensemble
I like 4.
Stupid little thing, but in highschool I played in a woodwind ensemble playing bassoon. My friend composed an arrangement of aud lang sine or whatever it's called for the ensemble for a Christmas concert, and he threw in an 8 bar section where we swapped over to recorders. It was both funny and pretty cool. Sounded great in the hand of good woodwind players.
I haven't touched a recorder in decades. But I play the clarinet and saxophone, and a little while ago on a lark I picked up a tin whistle.
Do cheap recorders in the hands of non-recorder woodwind players sound considerably better than cheap tin whistles in the hands of non-tin whistle woodwind players? Because that tin whistle sounded awful in my hands.
I'm going to go ahead and say yes. Never heard a tin whistle, but recorders sounded decent with light pressure and a mind for intonation. Kids just blast them and don't even know what intonation is hahaha
Never heard a tin whistle
I can almost guarantee you that's not true..
It's similar to a recorder, but smaller and with a much brighter tone, so possibly harder to get the best sound out of.
It's so strange to me that so many people get forced to play the recorder for a while in school, yet basic education of the musical world is completely absent. Perhaps taking the kids to a few different kinds of concerts would do away with such weird takes like "but fans of the recorder say the instrument's reputation is undeserved". Music schools for example like to do outreach concerts for kids where they show off and explain instruments etc.
On the topic of recorder performances, people like to criticize the recorder player in the youtube comments, but I like how the group Red Priest interprets and performs music.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Each Friday in the middle of Brisbane's CBD, the women come together to play recorders of all shapes and sizes.
Former primary school teacher Lindy Morrison only began playing the recorder when she retired.
She loves the way the instrument feels in her hands and the fact that it's made from natural wood.
"It's made of grenadilla [hardwood]; therefore, it has a more resonant sound, and the wood is one of the favoured ones for making good-quality recorders.
"One performance that's stayed with us was playing in a stairwell at City Hall because of the acoustic and it was so, so wonderful.
The group hopes people will stop giving the recorder a bad rap — and start to look at it differently.
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start to look at it differently.
The way it looks isn't the problem...
Maybe if it had flames painted on it, and maybe something cool written in lighting font? Like ⚡DEATH ☠️ CORDER⚡
I played violin in elementary school specifically to avoid being in the same room with people trying to play recorders. I'm aware that it can be played well, but it still feels like nails on a chalkboard to me, even decades later