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... wide variance in features (tone, intonation, chiff, wind requirement, price and range of expression). ... shifting towards sounding like wood flutes or recorders. Some will still sound obviously like ... and I already have three recorders (soprano, tenor and sopranino). The difference in tone ...

... organ-building term that somebody applied to recorders at some point, and that some recorder ... much. You might also think of Plaz Johnson on tenor sax. :poke: Breathiness in the extreme. I ... like you, never whistles until I joined the Chiff and Fipple community. Fun discussion though. ...

Thanks. In the broadest sense baroque recorders don't chiff and bark the way whistles do. They aren't designed ... to the main note so easily; on anything smaller than a tenor the finger holes are too small for a slide - and the ...

... my left hand almost fell off after playing my tenor recorder. After looking at whistles for a long time I learned ... Irish Whistle, not a recorder, not a flute, I want the Chiff and the raspy sound that I love about these instruments ...

... just Dale....breaking new ground! I think chiff may mean different things to different people. ... mind of what chiff is. Oh, and I wouldn't call recorders, at least not the ones in this house, "pure". Once you get to an alto or tenor recorder, it gets quite chiffy. (Don't worry, ...

... is used in naming other instruments like the recorder or singing voices (alto, tenor, soprano, etc). This helps some, but not completely. ... pure and sweet sounding, with a nice start-of-note chiff. It's keeps that sweetness throughout the second octave; ...

... to add would be welcome. I’m nothing like a recorder specialist. Just a photographer whose Holmes ... a clever plastic tube and a new swab :) Also a Tenor keyed Aulos, which I puchased to try out low ... too ;) ) Take a whistle; design it to reduce chiff to an absolute minimum; give it perfect ...

... a wood low D (thanks NickT !!!) with all the chiff, pops and wind I ever dreamt of (so, little ... how! * Sorry, all I'd be willing to trade is a tenor keyed baroque (white and black, all the cutie trimmings included...) plastic-wind recorder [sheepish smile] the rest of my fipple-thing ...

... it up again (Lark in the Morning has a C tenor keyless sax at a steal price) but my wife ... more volume than a tinwhistle. I'd picked up recorder about the same time I started sax, and ... I *am* one. After stumbling across the Chiff and Fipple site, I picked up a Clark in D, ...

... i've got to do something,what with the 'Chiff and fipple' message board being down! This ... the Mollenhauer Alto "dream flute" recorder, and one from England, the beautiful tune ... Fair". The latter is played on a Moeck Tenor recorder. Tune links go to Geoff's web page. ...

I think chiff may mean different things to different people. I ... his mind of what chiff is. Oh, and I wouldn't call recorders, at least not the ones in this house, "pure". Once you get to an alto or tenor recorder, it gets quite chiffy. (Don't worry, I can't ...