Great social get together at home on 23rd December, 2016. its the end of my fourth year of learning to play a musical instrument from scratch! – the Alto Recorder. In the brief video, captured on an iPhone 5 – an unashamedly way of suggesting that this method may be a contributing factor to any perceived amateurish hiccups – the ensemble comprises Wing on piano, Caryl on Bassoon and Charles and Jonathan on Oboe. If your complaint is that you can’t hear me , that is in truth a good thing. Let me explain – if the Recorder is not sticking out like a sore thumb, it means
- I am in tune
- I am playing all the notes correctly
- I am ‘on time’ … and of course there is a fourth and final explanation
- I am not really playing it at all but mouthing it.
make sure then volume of your device is set at around 50% as the sound distorts on maximum volume!
for those of you who are interested , it is part of the First Movement – Larghetto- of The Sonata No 4 in F major for Treble Recorder and basso continuo.
Yasmin and me
NO …I have become a grandfather again….OR perish the thought, a GREAT grandfather. This is Yasmin, the daughter of Charles the oboe player! The moist spot on my trousers is nothing to worry about.
Finally this is our dessert and what must it be for an Australian Christmas? Made by Margaret with 10 eggs…. she did not disclose the volume of cream.
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