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... decades ago. As the Saunders info says, the key is delicate. Mine got broken but superglue fixed it up. Thanks to modern glues! I have a new Aulos tenor and I feel the old 311 definitely has a better tone. The newer one is louder, while the old one is more mellow and softer, a better sound, imho. ...

Thanks for the description!

Oh dear, I should have thought of that, shouldn't I. I might be able to get the owner to send me a pic. Otherwise it looks very similar to the Philippe Bolton one, except: - his features the more modern double holes on the two lowest notes, and - this one was in what we believe is Spalted Sycamore. ...

Pics or it didn't happen!

Thank you for posting this, Terry. The fingering chart is very interesting as it includes separate fingerings, like many traverso charts of the time, for note pairs such as D#/Eb, A#/Bb, etc. To judge from the recorded samples, ...

... little coastal village on the South Pacific Rim! (Is nowhere safe?) A tenor recorder, made by Rudall & Carte, sometime around the 1920's. And not something they had ...

Olivewood is a pretty popular wood for high-end recorders. You see African blackwood/grenadilla in recorders ... flutes. It can’t be a matter of timber length, because tenor recorders are about the same length as D flutes if ...

Olivewood is a pretty popular wood for high-end recorders. You see African blackwood/grenadilla in recorders ... flutes. It can’t be a matter of timber length, because tenor recorders are about the same length as D flutes if not ...

Blowing pressure and flow for a consort of recorders. Data from Blanc and others 2010. Above 25 Pa (~2.5mm H2O) there is a ... sqrt(P) have intercepts on the sqrt(Pa) axis for the sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor and bass of 3.3, 2,9, 2.8, 2.6 and 2.7 Pa. So whatever is happening at the ...

I am looking at the recorder data and wondering what the characteristics are of the departure from the 'flow ... - 0.2315 Soprano Q=0.985*sqrt(P) - 0.2455 Alto Q= 0.116*sqrt(P) - 0.3289 Tenor Q= 0.152*sqrt(P) - 0.3979 Bass Q= 0.157*sqrt(P) - 0.4672 So presented that way there ...

... have intercepts on the sqrt(Pa) axis for the sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor and bass of 3.3, 2,9, 2.8, 2.6 and 2.7 Pa. So whatever is happening ... from the point of view of the hydrodynamic instability of the jet Recorder,Pa,m3/s/10000,sqrt(Pa),mmH2O,sqrt(mmH2O) Sopranino,0,0.000,0.000,0.000,0.000 ...

The Saunders Recorder (UK) page has lots of information. Attached is link to information on older Aulos Recorders. http://saundersrecorders.com/oldaulos.htm

... collection, including an odious slave owner's glass Laurent, and an old tenor recorder, seems to have also shocked and outraged some of the flute nerds on Facebook's Flute ...

I have an older Aulos Tenor Recorder with one key. The recorder is brown and the only identification I can find is an "E". I'm assuming the E is for English (Baroque) fingering. How can I find the model number?

... at least in baroque times. The Renaissance instruments were termed recorders but the Baroque alto was more often referred to as the “common ... “sixth flute, fourth flute, voice flute etc.” The current soprano/alto/tenor/bass array is far more recent. The primary position of F fingering ...