Hi all, I wanted to ask for some advice on dulcian fingering. I have a tenor dulcian (made by Eric Moulder) and I have a problem with eb. Usually, I take 1 2...
Hi Walter, You didn't mention if you were talking about the first (lowest) or second eb on the tenor. On my tenor the second eb works with 123 45-7 ---, this ...
Hans and Walter, et al., my both Praetorius basses works fine for Ab and ab with 12345----10 (and both A and a are just great and clear with 12345--8--)....
This is from the peanut gallery. I have an alto with an equally insubordinate Ab - G#. When I don't have time for 123 45/-, or it's just not working, I play A...
Hi Jan-Peter The fingering for Fis on my (Moulder)bass: The first (lowest) Fis: 1 2 3 4 5 6 - 8 The second : 1 2 3 4 5 6 - 8 - 10 second best fingering: 2 3 4...
Hi Walter, thank you for sending your fingerings: I use 1 2 3 4 5 6 - 8 - 10 for Fis and fis, and I have to drop them really carefully to become a pure third...
The price of new bass shawms is frightening. I got a Koerber bass for 400 uk pounds in 1983 when the Early Music Shop was having one of its big clearances. It...
Hello, all -- I'm a new member (having lurked for a few weeks), and wanted to introduce myself and ask a question. My name is Liam Graham, and I play...
Hi Liam, Welcome to the wonderful world of dulcians. To play with recorders you either need quite a lot of technique so that you can play very softly, or you...
Liam, the handkerchief works. I did it once to play together with my son at the clavichord. But it tends to been blown out of the tube, so you have to fix it ...
Jan-Peter, Many thanks for the information. I'm currently awaiting arrival of my curtal, which will in part be used to play with recorders, so your advice was...
Hello Liam, I use several alternatives when I need to play more quietly with singers or recorders. One is the wooden cap that Hans described, with or without...
Peggy Murray
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Dec 20, 2002 11:27 pm
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Thanks for the replies, everyone! I appreciate the advice and encouragement. Can't wait to get the instrument ... Thanks again, and Happy Holidays. Regards, ...
Well, my bass curtal was shipped from England to the US last Monday, and should arrive any day now. I can't wait! I also have a question: in the future I...
Congratulations. The curtal and baroque bassoon are quite different beasts. If you learn the curtal well you will not need a baroque bassoon, really. The...
It is hard to generalize about differences between baroque bassoon and curtal, especially as the curtal evolved over its lifetime to be more bassoon like. Not...
Corresponding to the need to damp open bell dulzians, you can remove the fabric batting from the bell of a Moulder gedackt dulzian and it sounds pretty much...
I am trying to contact Olivier Cottet and I hope that one of you might be able to help me. I have corresponded by post with Mr. Cottet about buying a tenor ...
... In addition to the important differences already mentioned by wadams, the sound of most dulcians is quite different from the sound of a baroque bassoon. ...
Thanks to everyone for the advice and information. I'm fairly active locally as a baroque flutist, and the people I would be playing with would be playing...
Hi all, There will be a workshop for double reed instrument players in Antwerp (Belgium) on saterday 15 and sunday 16 februari. The workshop is organised by...
Hello Dulcian Players, Let me introduce myself. I am Sharon Holmes, a new enrollee on list-serve and the new owner or a dulcian--R.Wood, Denner model. I am a ...
Sharon Holmes
lesterp2@...
Jan 7, 2003 8:44 pm
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Hello Sharon, Welcome to the wonderful world of dulcians. :-) ... The solution a lot of people use is a seat strap with a leather or cloth "cup" where you put...
Hi Sharon, What I use to hold up the dulcian is a seat strap for sitting, which I don't like very much, or for standing, I have devised an across-the-shoulder...
Peggy Murray
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Jan 8, 2003 12:55 am
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Dear all, First, Happy New Year!!. I make cornetti and recorder, and now, I'd like to make dulcians, because is a very beautiful instrument, to complete our...
Hi, Sharon -- ... Regarding raw linseed oil: you probably know this, but just in case ... make sure that that you use RAW linseed oil, which is very different...
Hello everyone! The dulcian arrived on Tuesday, and I had my first long-ish practice session last night. What a wonderful, exhausting, fun time! I'm going to...
... Great, success and lots of fun with your new "baby". ... Get a teacher or an experienced reed player to help you with things like tonging and other...
... What means that with these reeds and this instrument you must use your embouchure to make sure you get g and not f. Usually it is not easy to do something...
Hi, Sharon -- ... If you will allow an old serpent player to put his oar in, the late Christopher Monk used to recommend teak oil for his instruments, and for...
