solarbird | Re: similarly (Reply)

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For me, none of the D-flute technique would be applicable on an E-flute, because for me, a "fingering" is really "Here's what you need to do to produce a particular sound" rather than "Here's what you need to do to produce a particular note",

...Meaning, in this case, all-holes-closed is a concert D sound, end of story. An instrument that does something else for all-holes-closed is just a completely different instrument that I can't play at all

... i.e., assuming I actually did know how to play a D-flute, which I don't. Though actually, I probably do have some chance at being able to play a C-flute, because I learned C-recorder once upon a time and I'm told those fingerings are similar. Which means I can play soprano and tenor recorder (both in C) equally well/badly, but I'm entirely hosed on alto or bass recorder since those are in F.

Which is completely different from being able to read the music for an alto recorder, which is trivial because I had to learn how to do that in order to survive playing French Horn, right from that very first day in lessons ("play a C... no, no, lower... there you go." "That's not a C, that's an F." and thenceforth the note between the 2nd and 3rd lines of the staff that would normally be a C in treble clef is really this note that sounds like an F -- like a different clef, really.

So I can play an alto recorder part just fine; ... as long as I don't have to play it on an alto recorder.

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Admittedly, there is this weird slack in the system, probably having to do with having grown up in a house with an A-400 piano, in that I actually am able to treat a 400Hz sound as being an A. Meaning that, in general, if things are up to a half step flat, I'm fine. But a whole step flat was too much. Also, weirdly, I can't tolerate any sharpness at all.

Meaning the range of notes that I can treat as being "A" runs something like 395-445. A capo I couldn't handle since that makes everything sharper, but if there were such a thing as an anti-capo that flattened everything a bit, I probably could deal with that, i.e., if I had any guitar technique at all, which I don't.