Theo Todman's Web Page - Paper Abstracts

Notes

• This is a general non-specific bucket; it includes time spent purchasing and learning the instrument - the Tenor Recorder (Aulos - Japanese).
• As I've only just received my instrument, I'll await events and enthusiasm to see whether to add some fine-tuning to the time recording.
• As I play the oboe to about Grade 7 standard, I'd expected it to be fairly trivial to pick up the recorder, but - surprise surprise - it isn't. The fingering is different and - on the tenor recorder - the holes are rather far apart so you seem to need rather long or bendy fingers to play it.
• Julie has lent me her ancient The School Recorder Book - Part 1 by E. Priestly & F. Fowler which is evidently aimed at junior-school girls. But it's sensible for me to go slowly and carefully, rather than trying to whiz through and lose heart. I note that his book only goes as far as the first sharp (F#) and the first flat (Bb), so won't equip me to play much.
• She's also let me have The New Recorder Tutor - Book 2 by Stephen Goodyear. This introduces further sharps and flats, but it looks like to get the full range you need to use the fingering charts at the back of the book (or those that came with the instrument).
• For the actual time recorded against this task, click on "Paper Statistics" above.