Hans Åberg <haber...@telia.com> writes: >> On 1 May 2018, at 10:34, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: >> >> Paid performers. Recorder performances are a thing in primary school >> contexts already. > > The recorders used in schools are an idea from Carl Orff, with the > idea that it is inexpensive. Therefore, one made a modern recorder > tuning that should be simpler, but without the capacity of the Baroque > tuning. But, as it turn out, it is a bad instrument to start playing > when little, because the fingers motoric is not fully developed. So > that got the recorder a bad reputation instead. > >> I remember some performance from secondary school where a pair of >> prim girls were playing, I think, a duet on soprano recorder (I don't >> even think an alto was involved) from some booklet, with the >> intonation to be expected and everybody clapped politely. The >> proceeded to WHEEEEEEEE blow out their mouthpieces, then played >> another piece. WHEEEEEEE. And another. WHEEEEEEE. I think they >> proceeded to murder the whole booklet. WHEEEEEEE. Probably not more >> than 20 pieces or so. WHEEEEEE. > > Give thanks to Carl Orff for that.
The recorders were merely the weapon. The booklet contained the ammunition and the idea of a cartridge clip is usually not to empty it all in one go. At any rate, I am sure that Orff is in an afterlife where angelic little beings are playing recorder to him. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
