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Partridge indicates that the use of the instrument by jongleurs led to its association with the verb: Recorder the minstrel's action, a recorder the minstrel's tool. [5] [14] The reason is uncertain why this flute instrument—rather than some other instrument played by the jongleurs)—is known as the recorder.
Marvin Camras (January 1, 1916 – June 23, 1995) was an electrical engineer and inventor who was widely influential in the field of magnetic recording.. Camras built his first recording device, a wire recorder, in the 1930s for a cousin who was an aspiring opera singer named Willy.
The Swanson tonette From top to bottom: Yamaha soprano recorder, Swanson tonette, Conn-Selmer song flute, Grover-Trophy flutophone, Suzuki precorder. The stub-ended Swanson tonette is a small (6" cavity), end-blown vessel flute made of plastic, which was once popular in American elementary music education.
The company produces recorders for beginners and handmade instruments for soloists. In an effort to develop a renaissance-style recorder for use by beginners, Adriana Breukink developed the Adri's Dream recorder [2] in collaboration with Mollenhauer in 1999. [3] This line was later expanded to include Dream Edition recorders for more advanced ...
Kunath is a recorder maker in Fulda, Germany.. Joachim Kunath, who formerly worked for Mollenhauer, offers several lines of school recorders and reed instruments as well as the Paetzold by Kunath square recorders.
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The Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound is a reference work that, among other things, describes the history of sound recordings, from November 1877 when Edison developed the first model of a cylinder phonograph, and earlier, in 1857, when Léon Scott de Martinville invented the phonautograph. [1]
The recorder family is non-transposing (except at the octave). A tenor recorder sounding its lower A is sounding A. If it is tuned to concert pitch then it is sounding concert A at 440 Hz, but if a baroque instrument it is sounding A at 415 Hz, it is not sounding G ♯. Confusing, I know, but the result of several hundred years of changing pitches.