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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
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