The Bass recorder.

[@UkuleleSioni]

Thanks for this. Fascinating. Your videos are delightful.

[@cesarvidelac]

Wow, I wish I was as poor as a church rat to have that nice wood and brass recorder 😸 I have mostly plastic ones and just two wooden Altos, your instruments are wonderful. I'm not a musician so your channel is such an opportunity to sneak inside maker's world, I'm grateful.

[@Kunath-Group]

Love the clock and the video! Please , more of this ..

[@Jesuswinsbirdofmichigan]

Completely great. I'm without anything more to say.

[@luckybarrel7829]

I ended up here after seeing your making a carrot recorder video with Sarah. Can you please explain some more about the size of the holes determining the sound and not their placement bit? Or link me to your video if you already have? I was wondering if that's the case then why do bigger recorders like tenor, bass etc not have holes where our fingers can reach easily and need keys instead?

[@timcranmore200]

If you think about it, a tiny hole will give a small increase in pitch, so making the hole gradually bigger, the pitch will gradually rise until the hole is too big to be blocked by a finger. Ideally, a sounding tube needs fingerholes evenly spaced along it to give a scale. As the tube gets longer, but our hands don't get bigger, this becomes impossible. There are two ways to overcome this. Either by giving us artificially fingers, ie keys, or by grouping the holes within our reach but with different sizes. Big at the top, medium in the middle, and small at the bottom. The small bottom hole can then be too high, but still give the right note, and the big top hole can be too low but also give us the right note

[@luckybarrel7829]

@@timcranmore200 I see, thank you! So if I understand correctly, both parameters matter (placement and hole size) and there's a trade off between them. Would that be a correct summary?

[@timcranmore200]

@@luckybarrel7829 well a smaller hole is usually a smaller sound and cross fingerings are tricky. However, the authentic Renaissance consorts manage perfectly will with that arrangement because they are not stretched key wise

[@luckybarrel7829]

@@timcranmore200 I see thanks! And how about harmonic recorders? What parameters are modified to make a recorder harmonic (as in say for an alto overblowing the low F would give higher F instead of F#)? I know tube shape comes into picture here, but was wondering whether hole sizes also affect this feature?

[@Kunath-Group]

" .... Leonardo da Vinic would have been very proud of it, if he would made one himself .... " Herbert Paetzold that is the highest compliment from a colleague's mouth! !!!