Hey, I added you to my friends list. Was doing a random search of SCAdian/music people in Maryland since there's a high probability I'll be moving there in December. Hello!
I never did as much SCA stuff as I wanted to, and these days almost nothing besides Pennsic, but maybe you can nudge me into going to more local events. What do you play, and would you be interested in an English Country Dance group (http://www.wam.umd.edu/~eowyn/3LF/index.html)?
Currently I'm playing recorder (soprano, alto, tenor, though I have cheapie plastic instruments). I'd love to branch out into crumhorn and rackett, as well as upgrade my recorders, but I have to get a job first (I'm finishing my master's degree). Essentially, I'm happy playing any woodwind.
I love ECD (playing and dancing)! So does syrrichard (well, he only dances), so YES, we'd definately be interested in doing that.
Do you already play krummhorn, or are you just interested in trying it? (It's fun, and you already know the fingering, but the breathing is radically different.) Reason I ask is that I have a borrowed cornamuse that I haven't been taking to rehearsal because one buzzy by itself doesn't work very well, but I'm supposed to be getting one of my own in a few weeks, which I could then hand off to someone else at rehearsals and performances.
As for cheap plastic instruments, the two major brands of those are better than some of the cheap wooden recorders that cost more (though not as good as nice wooden recorders ... I once played a wooden Yamaha soprano that made me sound like a lead-melody player, which I'm really not). I'm playing plastic sopranino, soprano, alto, and bass (Aulos sopranino, the rest are Yamaha) and a wooden (Koch) tenor.
Racketts are cool, as are ... oh bother, I'm forgetting the name of the instrument that's just down-and-back inside, not as "folded" as a rackett. It sounds like "cortal" but I'm pretty sure that's not how it's spelled. Got a note on it someplace, and photos of a couple of them. Argh.
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Hey, I added you to my friends list. Was doing a random search of SCAdian/music people in Maryland since there's a high probability I'll be moving there in December. Hello!
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I love ECD (playing and dancing)! So does
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As for cheap plastic instruments, the two major brands of those are better than some of the cheap wooden recorders that cost more (though not as good as nice wooden recorders ... I once played a wooden Yamaha soprano that made me sound like a lead-melody player, which I'm really not). I'm playing plastic sopranino, soprano, alto, and bass (Aulos sopranino, the rest are Yamaha) and a wooden (Koch) tenor.
Racketts are cool, as are ... oh bother, I'm forgetting the name of the instrument that's just down-and-back inside, not as "folded" as a rackett. It sounds like "cortal" but I'm pretty sure that's not how it's spelled. Got a note on it someplace, and photos of a couple of them. Argh.
Kortholt