Assertive and forceful to assert in playing together with modern orchestra instruments: in modern music, jazz, folk or traditional recorder literature.
Extended tone range in the 3rd octave: Completely new opportunities of repertoire in areas that were locked for recorder players up to now, for example flute literature.
The first two octaves have got the familiar ’baroque fingering‘ but accessing the 3rd octave requires new fingerings.
Extended tone range downwards through additional key for E‘ (Alto) or rather B (Tenor).
Piano key: allows finest dynamic nuances
The piano key opens up a small hole in the head piece – the tone tunes up and can be played adequately soft. This is the way to realise finest dynamic nuances!
The SOUND-UNIT
The sound-unit is the upper removable part of the recorder head piece consisting of four parts:
Adjustable block (patent R. Strathmann)
Through a little knurled screw at the back side of the recorder head joint the width of the windway exit can be varied by raising or lowering the block in place. Through this it is possible to adjust changes in the windway width in no time at all, for example by swelling of the block caused by long playing. An additional interesting aspect of the adjustable block is the opportunity to access well directed sound variety through variation of the standard windway width.
Lip-Control
The ’Lip-Control‘ is a mechanism to affect the sound during playing: The movable constructed block is toppled by lip pressure and so it narrows the windway entrance. The player is able to affect the timbre in finest nuances as well as the volume of the particular tone by this highly sensitive medium.
Adjustable upper windway
The upper windway of the sound-unit is built by a plate that can be varied in height by means of two screws on the back of the recorder. So the height distance between upper windway and labium can be varied – a broad field to experience sound.
Variable windway covers
To the sound-unit belong small plates to cover the windway made of different wood types (rosewood, granadilla, synpor) that can be placed variably as the upper windway and fixed with a ring. The different structures of the wood types are due to different sounds.
SynporŠ-block
A wood imitating synthetic material with micropores absorbing respiration humidity but not swelling and for this reason keeping its dimensions. So your recorder bears up even against longer exposure
Guarantee:
2 years guarantee – a deal without any risk
Fingering chart
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