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Mats Jacobson
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Play-in your new recorder.
It's essential to play-in your recorder to
maintain the quality of your instrument.
So you have bought your new recorder and are eager to play as much as you can.
You want to test it want you? Just to see if you can get those high notes.
And you read that little paper in the box saying something about 20 minutes a
day
the first period.
Please stop, read this first if you want to keep your recorder at the top.
Keep in mind that recorders today can be very expensive.You have to play-in
the instrument first very careful even if it's boring.
It's to keep the original voicing. The voicing you loved when you tried all
those 10 instruments in the shop. You did test did you :-)
By the way, I urge you to do this, even convince the shop to send you some
samples to test, I said those instruments are expensive and buy one by
pure chance is a waste of money.
Back to why you have to play-in the recorder is to keep the grain from
raising
causing the voicing to change and to stay rough permanently and, in fact, actual
rotting of the finely cut edges. When the surface is finely sealed you will
notice
that you will have less droplets in the windway. You will get a more reliable
instrument
and you will be safer at high notes and suffering from extensive stops in the
windway
due to to much moisture......
A recommended plan to play in your recorder is this:
- First fourteen days - 5 minutes each day
- Second - " -
10 - " -
- Third - " -
15 - 20 - " -
- Fourth - " -
20 - 30 - " -
Some general advice. If you play very much buy a second recorder. It can even
be a plastic
one just for practice. Some of them are quite good.
Bigger instruments are not so sensitive.
You have to play-in a re-voiced instrument again and when leaving the instrument
un-played for a longer time.
For information about general care of you recorder I recommend you a visit at
Saunders Recorders website.
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