Bergen County Chapter American Recorder Society May 2017

Next Meeting: ATTENTION NEXT MEETING Wednesday 6/14/17 Larry Lipnik May 17, 2017 May’s meeting will be on the third At 8:00PM Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Meetings are held at: Congregation Adas Emuno 254 Broad Avenue Chapter News Leonia, NJ 07605 We are pleased to announce agreed to be our coach for that May’s coach will be our June meeting. Susan Hellauer. Susan is a There is a $10.00 suggested At May’s meeting volunteers native of the Bronx. She is a donation for non-members. for refreshments after the founding member of the vo- meeting are Barbara (food) cal ensemble Anonymous 4. For Information contact: and Reita (drinks). Reita Powell, President We are also happy to an- 201-944-2027 nounce that Larry Lipnik has [email protected]

Carl Peter, Editor April 29th Annual Workshop a Success! 201-837-1071 We have received several room setup/cleanup.  Janet, Anne, and Martha [email protected] notes thanking us for a well- for hosting the welcome  Gayle, for helping to run workshop and enjoyable table and promoting the plan the workshop, han- day. Plans for the workshop raffle started last summer when dling all arrangements with the church, han-  Carl, for designing, Reita invited interested printing, and mailing the members to an initial plan- dling registrations and Annual accounting tasks, and flyers in addition to de- ning session. Coach invita- signing and printing the tions were sent by Lorraine helping Kaat in the Workshop kitchen. welcome letters and in August and work contin- chapter information ued throughout the next sev-  Kaat, for organizing all flyer for the registration eral months until the work- of the hospitality prior to table. Susan shop date. the workshop and at- tending to the food and  Valerie Horst and Deb- Thanks to: Hellauer beverages throughout orah Booth, who worked  Reita, for organizing the the day with help from with Lorraine on the planning meeting, help- Anne, Gayle, and Reita classes. ing with planning, espe-   To anyone else who saw cially in the weeks be- Richard, Carl, and Bernie: for the “heavy a need and stepped in to fore the workshop, and lifting” of room setup/ help that day. It is cer- for helping with the wel- tainly true that “many come table, and class- cleanup hands make light work!” May 2017 Bergen County Chapter Page 2 American Recorder Society The New York Recorder Guild The newly-re-formed New ning we will play a few tunes group will meet from 6:30 - Please RSVP if you would York Recorder Guild invites and get to know one another. 8:30 PM on Thursday, June like to attend by sending an you to attend a free play-in If all goes well, the group 29, 2017 at the Unitarian email to newyorkre- coached by Deborah Booth. will progress towards meet- Church of All Souls, 1157 [email protected]. Lexington Ave (at 80th St.) Over the course of the eve- ing on a regular basis. The Nate Lebert Make Music New York Noted recorder performer Performers may bring all fifth time for recorder play- deborah@flute-recorder- and conductor, Deborah sizes of recorders (sopranino ers to take part in this festival deborahbooth.com. Booth, will lead a recorder through contrabass) or they and we hope to help raise the You must register to partici- playing session at Straus may concentrate on one in- profile and increase aware- pate. The scores will be sent Park as part of the Make strument if they wish. The ness of our wonderful instru- to each participant after reg- Music NY Festival this June repertoire will include a se- ment. istering by replying to this e 21, 2017. lection of pieces from the Please bring music stands mail message. This year Renaissance, Baroque, and The 2016 recorder celebra- with clips for outdoor play- there will be a small music contemporary eras. tion included 47 players!!! ing. If you have a small charge of $8.00 Please send Make Music New York is a folding stool or chair that a check to Deborah Booth, Date, Time, and Location: live, free musical celebration would be great. Some 884 West End Avenue, #125, Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at across the city that takes benches are available for New York, NY 10025. The 7:00 pm place each June 21, the long- those who come a bit early earlier your registration is est day of the year. On that but the seating will be a bit received the sooner you will Straus Park in NYC day, hundreds of public limited. have access to the music. We spaces throughout the five hope to hear from many of Broadway and 106 Street For musical questions please boroughs become impromptu send an e mail to Deborah you! All recorder players (non- stages for over 1,000 free Booth at : beginners) are welcome. concerts. This will be the

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Beginning with the fifteenth crumhorn, used in the 14th to The cylindrical (as op- difficult to access. Thus the century a new type of double 17th centuries in Europe, is posed to a conical bore) and normal range is limited to the instrument was devel- wooden, with a cylindrical the reed closing the end of simple fundamental sounds oped. The player's lips did bore. The crumhorn is the the resonating tube mean that produced by successive not touch the reed because earliest and most common the crumhorn overblows a opening of the holes giving a the reed was enclosed inside range of an octave and one a protective cap with a slot at note. Many larger surviving one end. Strongly blowing instruments have auxiliary through this slot causes the holes that extend the range reed to vibrate as it does in downwards to just over an the bagpipe chanter. The octave. On modern recon- name of the Crumhorn structions additional keys are comes from the German provided to extend the range krumhorn (also krummhorn, upwards by one to three krumphorn), meaning curved notes. And there is some horn (or the older English instrument of the reed cap twelfth rather than an octave, evidence to suggest that crump, meaning curve, sur- family which also includes giving the instrument a fin- were sometimes viving in modern English in the , , and gering system similar to the played without the windcap, crumpled and crumpet, a hirtenschalmei. The crum- lower register of the clarinet. possibly to facilitate the pro- curved cake). horn is thought to have de- However, the lack of direct duction of higher notes. veloped from the earlier control of the reed of a wind- The name first occurs in www.music.iastate.edu . capped instrument renders 1489 as an organ stop. The these higher notes extremely