January 2010 Published by the American Recorder Society, Vol. LI, No. 1 • www.americanrecorder.org NEW! Enjoy the recorder Denner great bass Mollenhauer & Friedrich von Huene “The Canta great bass is very intuitive to play, making it ideal for use in recorder “The new Mollenhauer Denner orchestras and can be great bass is captivating with recommended .” its round, solid sound, stable in every register. Its key mechanism Dietrich Schnabel is comfortable and especially (conductor of recor- well designed for small hands. An der orchestras) instrument highly recommended for both ensemble and orchestral playing.” Daniel Koschitzky Canta knick great bass (member of the ensemble Spark) Mollenhauer & Friedrich von Huene G# and Eb keys enable larger finger holes and thus an especially stable sound. The recorder case with many extras With adjustable support spike … saves an incredible amount of space with the two-part middle joint … place for music … integrated recorder stand Order-No. 2646K Order-No. 5606 www.mollenhauer.com A Care and Maintenance Manual Chapter 1 - Where It All For the Recorder Started • A Brief History Your Recorder, like a pet, can "purr like a well fed pussycat, or an uncontrollable • How It Works and unpredictable beast…" • The Birth of a Recorder "This book, like the late Barbara Woodhouse, will show you how to take your recorder on walkies in respectable society and still stand proud!" Chapter 2 - Basic Training • Keeping its coat shiny • Maintaining the inner pet – cleaning the bore. • Block Cleaning • Windway Cleaning • Block Replacement Chapter 3 - Advanced Training • Recorder Voicing • Looking and Seeing Chapter 4 - Really Major Surgery • The Windway • The Labium Chapter 5 - Tuning the bore and finger holes • DYI Tuning • Diagrams for note, finger and pitch influence, bore diameter and pitch. • Making a simple Tim Cranmore, a leading British based recorder maker and a regular at adjustment reamer recorder events throughout the world, has written a care and maintenance • Tuning,, step by step manual for the instrument titled 'Obedience Training for the Recorder.' Its 73 pages is a synthesis of his approach to the subject as well as a Chapter 6 - Miscellanies practical introduction to looking after the instrument. Tim says " Unlike strings • Fruit n'Veg, or straightening bent boxwood and orchestral winds, the skills of recorder making were largely lost after the • Being a Recorder Maker 18th century, and have been rediscovered during the last fifty years, • Popular Festivals around the World Nowadays the market is supplied by a handful of individual makers scattered • Current Active Recorder Maker Listing around the world. They are all single-minded, obsessive, independent, skilled workers, who combine the tasks of researcher, craftsman, salesman and musician in one. He is proud to be one of them". To order: By Telephone, toll free: 888-665-2721 Order # PTCRANM By fax: 860-364-5168 $29.95 By email: [email protected] Order Online: www.magnamusic.com 0DJQDPXVLF'LVWULEXWRUV,QF PO BOX 338, 74 AMENIA UNION RD, SHARON, CT 06069-0338 TEL: (860) 364-5431 FAX: (860) 364-5168 Email: [email protected] Web: www.magnamusic.com Serving the Recorder World for over 65 years with over 10,000 pieces for the recorder and more. Editor’s Note ______ ______ ______ ______ Volume LI, Number 1 January 2010 ______ atiently waiting to see print, delayed by Features articles that related to the 2009 anniver- P How the Recorder came to Japan . .9 sary year (the 70th birthday of the ARS and volume 50 of AR), was an article on the by Ewald Henseler and Mayumi Otsu recorder in Japan. Finally it has made it to these pages and to your door. The article A Recorder Lesson Plan for Koinobori . .18 4 clears up questions (such as the identity of Education Special for Play-the-Recorder Month the bass recorder player seen in a photo from 1932, later printed in AR), and also by Bonnie Kelly gives us an idea of the effect of the 20th- century recorder revival in Japan. Read how Departments much more there is to the recorder in Japan Advertiser Index and Classifieds . .32 than precision-molded plastic instruments, starting on page 9. Also enjoy playing the Chapters & Consorts . .21 music that appears as part of the article. 6 On a path separate from the Japan Music Reviews . .26 article was a discussion between the ARS and MENC, The National Association On the Cutting Edge . .8 for Music Education, about music to be Recorder music and recorders you might have missed featured for Play-the-Recorder Month (PtRM)—which, when conceived years President’s Message . .3 ago, was chosen to occur in March in an effort to support MENC’s Music in our Lisette Kielson encourages you to try something new Schools Month (MIOSM). The 2010 9 special PtRM music is a piece that comes Q&A . .24 from the list of music to be learned by many Little-known facts about garkleins schoolchildren for the MIOSM World’s Largest Concert. Happily, the musical Tidings . .4 selection adapted for recorders is a piece from Japan, Koinobori (page 18, with Daphna Mor plays on Sting’s new CD; Aldo Abreu Bonnie Kelly’s lesson plan for teaching plays 300-year-old recorders (belonging to Friedrich it to recorder students on pages 19-20). von Huene) on his new CD; news from Erik Bosgraaf; Perhaps this year we will celebrate 21 Play-the-Rikôdâ Month. young recorder professionals win in Greenwich Gail Nickless and Montréal GAIL NICKLESS, EDITOR ON THE COVER: CONTRIBUTING EDITORS TOM BICKLEY, COMPACT DISC REVIEWS • FRANCES BLAKER, BEGINNERS & TECHNIQUE Illustration TIMOTHY BROEGE, 20TH/21ST-CENTURY PERFORMANCE • CAROLYN PESKIN, Q & A by Jin Suk CONSTANCE M. PRIMUS, MUSIC REVIEWS • MARY HALVERSON WALDO, EDUCATION www.js-graphics.com ADVISORY BOARD MARTHA BIXLER • VALERIE HORST • DAVID LASOCKI • BOB MARVIN ©2010 THOMAS PRESCOTT • CATHERINE TUROCY• KENNETH WOLLITZ WWW.AMERICANRECORDER.ORG GLENNA LANG, COPYRIGHT©2010 AMERICAN RECORDER SOCIETY, INC. 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