{"id":4220,"date":"2013-06-21T15:12:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T22:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=4220"},"modified":"2013-06-21T15:12:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T22:12:32","slug":"your-presenter-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/21\/your-presenter-today\/","title":{"rendered":"your presenter today"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time to play everybody’s favourite quiz game, “What the hell is this?” Featuring me! And a found musical instrument at an estate sale*<\/sup><\/small>, which I rescued, and which appears to be some kind of recorder variant. But doesn’t entirely act like the recorders I’ve known. Is there a name for this thing? Check it out:<\/p>\n


Your Mystery Guest<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

It’s in F! For FEAR ME. Which really should be PH for PH33R M3 but it’s probably too old for that. The head is totally recorder-like:<\/p>\n


That’s a recorder reed right there<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

But it has keys! And thing is, there was a recorder right next to it, which did not<\/em> have keys, but was in the same size and has the usual double-holes at the bottom, and which also sounded a lot more like a standard recorder.<\/p>\n


KEYS MADE HERE<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

This doesn’t sound completely unlike<\/em> a recorder – it’s still obviously a woodwind and all that – but there’s just some qualities of it which sound different. Maybe that’s just being what I suspect is at least partially hand-made – check out these holes, they look like ones you find on handmade bamboo flutes, only shorter. Also, the upper octave is played – in my experiments trying to figure it out so far – unlike a normal recorder.<\/p>\n


Handmade or just sloppy?<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

Anyway, it’s clearly some sort of recorder variant, but does it have a name?<\/p>\n

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*<\/sup><\/small> IF THIS HELPS: the estate was of a Jewish couple originally from South Africa. There’s acres of old original-8mm-size movie film marked things like “Rhodesia road trip, 1954,” and a projector for the film. Also acres of slides going back 60 years. And pottery supplies priced in South African Rand. If you’re a visual artist, contact me, I’ll tell you where.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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