Sarah Jeffery / Team Recorder
Sarah Jeffery / Team Recorder
I’m Sarah, and I’m a recorder player!
My goal: Making music accessible for all. Sharing my favourite thing: recorders! From in-depth tutorials to lessons for beginners to general music FUN. Creating a global community of recorder players ❤️
I'm a classically trained musician in Amsterdam. I studied music degrees in the recorder at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and my current adventure is translating all of this into a professional career!
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Do baroque oboe next!!! I'm really curious at how a recorder player approaches the instrument.
Note that the Trinity recorder exams only allow Baroque recorders to be used. The ABRSM and LCM recorder exams are silent about the types of recorders that can be used.
Our beloved resin recorder maker „Aulos“ also has got two traverse flute models, one in 415Hz after Stanesby Jr. and the other in 440Hz after Grenser. 😉🤩
I have only one thing to say: I TOLD YOU SO!!!!
Small correction on the 'Eigentopf': The Bach contempory maker is called Johann Heinrich Eichentopf, the modern maker Aurin calls his flute 'Eigentopf' to resemble both the modern approach to create a playable flute and the original ivory flute located in Berlin. The german 'eigen' means something like 'my (own)' or even 'peculiar'.
Indeed, thanks for the clarification in a main comment! I posted this in a reply somewhere, but it will be buried of course.
Ah thanks, that was my misunderstanding! Of course in Dutch ‘Eigentopf’ and ‘Eichentopf’ are pronounced the same 😅
@@Team_Recorder omg I hadn't even thought of that!!!
a base recorder...hmmm....something I used tapes in (recorder) in the cellar when I was a kid (basement)
Yay! Hello to any traverso players. So fun to see you meet one. I love the two distinct timbres of the instruments but how they fit each other perfectly. And thanks to Aysha for partcipating - I listened to her album and her playing is absolutely brilliant. Does anyone know what the name of the last duet they played was? I might have a shot at it, really pretty.
Hello! Thanks for watching and listening :-) so happy to hear you enjoyed my album! Are you asking about the last duet we played on two traversi, or the one for flute and recorder?
@@ayshawills You're really welcome! I was wondering about the flute and recorder, since I'm a recorder player :) Thank you for responding.
@@InkByt3 That duet is the final movement of the Quantz trio sonata in C major. It's great music! I love the first movement a lot as well :)
This video is awesome, the duet is perfect!
Very nice.
Wow Sarah! That was great! What a model student! You should go for it! I have a question for Aysha, though I don’t know if she’ll read the comments. I’ve had a couple traverso students, and I’ve surprisingly found that modern flute players struggle more with getting the rudiments of the traverso than recorder players. Moderns flute players seem to get frustrated with the transition to tone holes from keys, and with the comparatively tiny embouchure. Aysha, have you found this to be true? Or is this just unique to my particular experience with the few students I’ve had. I’m less experience teacher, so if you read this comment, I would like you insights.
I have definitely found this to be true, depending on the level of the modern flutist though. If it's a professional or semi professional, they often take it in their stride. However, amateurs tend to struggle more - the majority of my amateur Traverso students have either come from recorder or voice, or are just starting fresh with Traverso! I have noticed that modern players tend to favour the Palanca, with it's larger embouchure and more hefty weight....
The tricky part is learning to play left hand. But a pair of Baroque flute players, side by side, one left hand and one right hand is gorgeous. That weird 2-key foot on Aysha's flute may be a bit difficult to play left hand.
Looks good, doesn't it- something like the brothers Doppler who famously performed shoulder to shoulder, one leftie and one rightie. Maybe that's the next step!
Excellent! Played a Boehm flute for many years and took up traverso back in the early 80's after hearing Musica Antiqua Koeln perform "A Musical Offering" using traverso and period strings. A surge in period music playing was taking place back then, though there was next to no pedagogical / method material available then for traverso. My main source of information was in reading Quantz carefully (there was no internet) and in correspondence with other flute players interested in the one-keyed flute. I gave up flute entirely in the early 90's, as my computer career demanded most of my time (tech boom). Now retired, I wanted to play flute again, and after not playing for so long (30 years) decided to take up traverso rather than modern fllute. The instruments are now much more widely available than back in the 80s, and the instructional material and information available via the internet have helped in accelerating progress. Much enjoyed this video!
I bet there are some oriental modes that make good use of this F of yours! And, isn't the low D a bit low actually?
The lowest notes on any transverse flute definitely tend to be on the low side!
That was so interesting and fun to see/hear! I would love to hear you play more traverso/recorder duets. That was so beautiful!
I may be wrong, but I think there's an error with the level 2 notation? It shows an F but I think you're playing an F#? (I'm not great at reading music, though)
Lovely, this. Cheers, thanks for the video!
Great video, thanks for taking the time to make it. It's interesting to get your perspective of the traverso but also nice to get a free lesson from an experienced teacher which are impossible to find.
Sadly, no longer available in baroque voicing
Beautiful beautiful beautiful! The two instruments go so great together! I am so happy to see more and more content on baroque instruments!
rare to hear some vibrato on transverse baroque flute !
Love the collaboration. Great video! Best regards from Argentina!
Fantastic conversation - and I'm not even a recorder or transverse flute player; but any wind person can learn something. Except bone players, of course.
How much are those sure more than you're basic plastic
My first Soprano recorder was given to me by a close neighbor it was a Mollenhaure made out of maple but it didn't have a good tone was too soft and was frustrating I also had a Moerk which also was maple had a pleasant sound don't remember what happened to it definitely better than Moellenhaurer nowadays I have a Aulos Soprano and a Treibert Alto which I'm okay with but there's nothing like wood, love the feel and the playing is finer and professional, the biggest downside is price unless you're looking to become seriously involved in studying and want to pursue your recorder playing professionally then spending hundreds of dollars or euros is a good investment but for me at least plastic is sufficient
It never ceases to amaze me how one can do different ornaments that even though I'm no means a beginner Sarah has opened my understanding of what the recorder is capable of Thank you so much for your teaching
I am one of the few people who learnt a simple medieval, transverse, keyless flute before learning modern flute. My local primary school in Sydney, Australia ran after school "extracurricular" classes. One was run by an enthusiastic local amateur musician who loved and collected medieval instruments. I loved music and already was learning piano, loved Bach and had learnt a little recorder so I signed up. I loved the flute right from the start, but we also played psalteries, harp, 3 holed flute, shawm, medieval flageolet and other instruments. At first, I played flute mirror image from copying my teacher. She corrected me and said, if I wanted to play modern flute one day - I would need to swap sides! I thought it was perfectly normal to learn flute this way until I met other flutists in high school. 😄
That is so cool, thanks for sharing! I think playing a keyless flute isn't such a bad idea, to be honest - I did the Suzuki method and was given a little stick with painted on holes just to learn the position before I was entrusted with a (curved headjoint) modern flute! Amazing that you were able to play and try out so many instruments. That must have been a great and enriching experience! Thanks for sharing your story. How great that that was available in Sydney - I already found it to be a wonderful city to visit!
It’s learned not learnt.
@tennissir1986 I don't know what country you are from, but please don't forget that English speakers come from many different parts of the world. A quick Google of "learnt vs learned" will reveal that "learnt" is common usage in the UK (as it is in Australia where I am from), whereas "learned" is common in the US and presumably other countries as well. Languages are fascinating and complex things.
Since switching from flute to recorder and getting immersed in early music I’ve admired traversos from afar. I learned so much about them from this video. I wondered if the fingerings were anything like the recorder (not really), and I had no idea there’s no thumb hole! The sound is so lovely.
Thank you both for a great video. The look on Sarah's face when she tries F to F sharp is priceless. Reminds me when I started with traverso 35 years ago (plastic Aulos AF1 - still my travel flute): a recorder playing friend of mine tried traverso as well at the time but stopped because he felt it was too much like juggling!
To do: Practice more traverso. Listen to more Aysha. Wait for Aysha and Sarah to do the Telemann double concerto 😏
That would be a dream!!! I LOOOOVE that piece 🤭
@@ayshawills Don't we all. And the combined sound of the two of you is definitely dream material 😊🩷🎶🪈
i admire Root so much!!! i listen to a lot of his recordings with the netherlands bach society and he was my introduction to the traverso! love it
Is Eigentopf the same Eichentopf that made bassoons?
Yes, this is a copy of Eichentopf, but since my Traverso builder (Fridtjof Aurin) had to make some adjustments to the instrument in order to make it function, he called it his "eigentopf" ("eigen" is the German word for "my own")- so it's just a German language pun... Same maker, indeed!
Oh that is so cool to know!
Shopping for a resin/plastic traverso! This was fantastic. That last piece was so fun. Sarah reading music like the rest of us read words on a page.
Not a player: I found this wonderfully informative and also delightful. Packed with stuff, easy to take in. Also: at the beginning: "The first thing is how to hold the traverso." Half way through: "Oh, I've got it upside down." Sometimes it's the little things.
Hello teacherwhere l get the Brown flauta is nice
No thumb hole kind of blows my mind. This Baroque flute is lovely and definitely beyond my meagre flute skills. Thanks for bringing some of Team Recorder's spotlight onto this rare instrument.
Changing octaves purely on embouchure is a flutist trick that messes with recorder players' minds. (and wait till the first time you try an ocarina. No upper register).
@@josephwisniewski3673 I thought ocarinas were chromatic instruments. Or it is because I'm new to music and don't understand this?
Converted from...?
recorder!
Welcome to the dark side - we have glorious instruments and sounds! I started 4 decades ago with a tenor bamboo flute that I bought in Guildford... and then I had to go further. Nowdays I love my Hall crystal flutes - and I have a nice, old unkeyed Pratten-style rosewood flute; that's the one I'll be taking to Valhalla!
Sounds like you have quite the collection! I very much enjoyed visiting and speaking with Robert Bigio in London in February - his collection humbles me. I am a huge lover of English flutes. Pratten flutes are gorgeous and rosewood is a very underused material for Traversi these days!
@@ayshawillsmy pratten-style flute isn't a Traversi - although it could possibly be converted, if I was feeling crazy enough. Given that I've just gone down the rabbit-hole with an Akai EWI5000... I'll leave it as it is and keep it as my 'go-to' instrument for working out melodies for my pop/folk/blues and jazz.... Maybe one day I'll buy an Aulos Traversi - for the sake of completeness...?
@@rebeccaabraham8652 yes, I think I know what style of Pratten you're speaking of! I love the EWI. I tried it out and I'm pretty terrible at it, but wow what a thing!
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Please let me know the duets you guys played!
I enjoyed all your playingy bits :)
There is a wonderful double concerto by Telemann for traverso and recorder, look it up if you like the sound of those two together !
I love a bit of Boismortier.
Ah I play flute. The right hand little finger on my flute has three keys, but they do vary according to how low the instrument goes. Mine goes to a C.
Just casually having like 50 recorders on ones desk is a statement.
Sounds like a low whistle imo
I think the Recorder+ would be great for elementary schools. To make the recorder horror something, that might actually encourage young children to make music.
I absolutely love the baroque flute. I have several in my collection none of which I can play, but it’s fun collecting baroque flutes. My Quantz is by far my favorite. This was a wonderful surprise to see you on KZread today. Please what is the Method book you played from? I have Method for the one keyed flute. ❤❤❤❤
It’s the New Method for Traverso by Doretthe Janssens- info and link is in the video description!
Thank you. Inspired to get my lockdown Traverso out again. I feel it really helps me to play the metal flute in a better and more rekaxed way.
Bach if it was written by Reich.
I've noticed how much distinct sounds the "open" and "forked" notes of the Baroque flute - That's fascinating, and shows you why during the 18th Century often tonalities were considered so much different in sound than they do today: nowadays' instruments are more uniform throughout their range, but they thus have lost some different "flavours" their earlier counterparts had. I also started on the flute, but never have been able to master the embochoure. I've found that of brass instruments (i.e.: the dreaded cornett, which actually I find not that terrible) to be easier 😀😀. Maybe, it also changes from person to person.
Yes, that’s why I love the recorder too!
Yes, in my humble opinion the modern flute is the pinnacle of progress in some ways, and in other ways the opposite. In our hunger for "easy" fingerings and the ability to play effortlessly in every key, we also lost the beautiful and unique colours that every key intrinsically had. This also means that the composer's use of key signature started to have less meaning once the flute was fully chromatic. I understand that it was necessary due to the larger halls and harder repertoire, but I'm so happy that nowadays I can play any flute I like from renaissance to Boehm! The things that people find to be a handicap are actually what makes the instrument beautiful and unique, once you get to grips with it!