Recorder Home Page
Technique
Compiled by Nicholas S.
Lander
Articulation
Bass recorders
Composing for the recorder
Extended Techniques
Fingering
- Fingering the
Recorder, detailed instructions for fingering the recorder,
including notes in the third octave, trill fingerings, flattement,
etc., from Nicholas Lander (Australia)
- Recorder Fingerings, from Winfried Bauer (Dutch, English, German, Italian, Spanish). This is very comprehensive with fingerings for a variety of different recorders including Mollenhauer's Ganassi, Kynsecker, Harmonic and Modern recorders
- Interactive Fingering Chart, from Hampshire Rrecorder Sinfonia (UK)
- Fingering Charts, from Mollenhauer (Germany) [PDF format]
- Interactive Recorder Fingering Chart, from Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia (UK)
- Recorder Fingering Chart, from the Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra (USA)
- Recorder Trill Fingering Chart, from the Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra (USA)
- Recorder Fingering Chart, from Musikhaus Max Hieber (Germany) – 'English' (neo-baroque) fingering.
- Recorder Fingering Chart, from Musikhaus Max Hieber (Germany) – 'German' fingering.
- Tavola delle posizioni per flauto dolce sistema tedesco, soprano/tenore e contralto [German fingering table for SAT recorders]
- Tabela de digitaçöes (flauta
contralto), from Helcio Müller (Brasil). Table of
fingerings for the alto recorder (in Portuguese)
-
Woodwind Fingering Guide, a compilation of fingerings for many
different instruments, including recorder, from Tim Reichard
(USA)
- Recorder
Trills, Turned Trills, and Turns, from Richard Hureau (USA)
- Recorder Digits, a Windows 95/98/NT program that displays standard and alternate fingerings for alto, soprano/tenor, and bass recorders, from Richard Hureau (USA)
- Recorder Thumbrest? compiled by Brian Blood (UK)
- Über den Daumen gepeilt, a study of Michala Petri's thumb technique by Julie Pi Hedeboe; from Windkanal 2: 20-21 (2001) [PDF format]
Health Issues
- Musicians and Injuries, bibliography and links to many on-line articles
- Contact dermatitis and other skin conditions in instrumental musicians, by Thilo Gambichler, Stefanie Boms, & Marcus Freitag, from BMC Dermatology 4(1): 3 (2004).
- The Musician's Survival Manual by Richard Norris, MD
- Alexander Technique
- Musicians' Health, from Chiropractic Performing Arts Association; devoted to the understanding and the explanation of musician's injuries, along with guidelines regarding injury prevention, optimizing musical performance, and for achieving an optimum state of health
- Musicians and Injuries, from Paul Marxhausen (USA), prevention and treatment of repetitive stress injuries; links to stretches, warning signs, books, videos, chat rooms, recommended doctors, etc.
Intonation
Methods
- Suzuki Method Recorder School™ (USA), information about this successful method, about studios and teachers, and about workshops and Summer institutes providing student classes and teacher training
- Adult Recorder Methods and Studies, an annotated list by
David Green
- Learn To Play the Dolmetsch Way, online method for soprano & alto recorder, from Brian Blood (UK)
- Recorder Web Academy, teaching materials from Mollenhauer with Nikolaj Tarasov (Germany)
-
Online Music Lessons, Learn to play the recorder, tin-whistle,
fluteophone, native American flute and more from Ray Hogan
(USA)
- How to Play the Recorder, an h2g2 Guide from BBCi (UK)
Overview
- The Recorder Instrument of Torture or Instrument of Music? Technique, an overview of recorder
technique aimed at identifying those aspects with which children
and amateurs may experience difficulty, from Nicholas Lander
(Australia)
Vibrato & Tremolo

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