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Recorder Research

  • Sound, Design and Acoustics
    • 1. Terminology
    • 2. Sound Production
    • 3. Types, Bores, Sizes
      • 3.1 Recorder types today
    • 4. Pitches and Tuning systems
    • 5. Fingerings
      • 5.1. Cross-fingerings
      • 5.2. Alternative Fingerings
      • 5.3. Keys
      • 5.4. Using hole no.8
      • 5.5. Pitches available playing with one hand only
    • 6. Registers
      • 6.1. Ranges of Registers (synoptical table)
      • 6.2. Extensions of Registers
    • 7. Dynamics
    • 8. Some thoughts on microphones
  • Recordertypes
    • 1. Medieval
    • 2. Renaissance
      • 2.1. Renaissance: conical bore
      • 2.2. Renaissance: cylindrical bore
      • 2.3. Renaissance: with chamfer
    • 3. Baroque
    • 4. 20th and 21st century: new developments
  • Sounds and Techniques
    • 1. Articulation and Blowing
    • 2. Flageolets
    • 3. Fluttertongue
    • 4. Glissando
    • 5. Labium
    • 6. Two or more Recorders, one Player
    • 7. Microintervals
    • 8. Microphones
    • 9. Multiphonics
    • 10. Voice
    • 11. Objets Trouvés
    • 12. Perkussive Effects
    • 13. Preparations and Dismantlings
    • 14. Noisesounds
    • 15. Triller and Tremoli
    • 16. Vibrato
    • 17. Circular Breathing

Sound, Design and Acoustics

1. Terminology
2. Sound Production
3. Types, Bores, Sizes
4. Pitches and Tuning systems
5. Fingerings
6. Registers
7. Dynamics
8. Some thoughts on microphones
  1. Sound, Design and Acoustics

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