As requested!


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From a recent New York Times article on Patti LuPone ( Read more... )

siderea, you are a wise person.

Y'all remember that image of nine woman musicians I was trying to track down? Muses indeed -- the Nine Muses from a manuscript of Martin le Franc's "Le Champion des Dames" (1440-42), as a matter of fact.

That particular discovery led me to "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth Century Illuminated Manuscripts at ( Read more... )

My new flute arrived!!! Time for a flute review!

Overall, I'm really pleased with it. It's got a beautiful warm, earthy tone. The ergonomic "small hands" configuration is extremely manageable. Seriously -- I don't think it matters how tiny you are, anybody can pull off reaching and covering the holes on this model ( Read more... )

Oooh, medieval women playing wind instruments! I don't see that nearly as often as I see female string players; I had been fumbling towards a theory on that front, but it may turn out not to hold water ( Read more... )

So I... well, see... the whole thing went down like this:

Online browsing was happening. And then a flute got ordered.

!!!

Yes, it was the Casey Burns simple system flute I've been eyeing for months and months. Yes, the small-hands model -- mopane wood, no keys, in D, modern oval embouchure and ergonomically positioned holes but otherwise ( Read more... )

*grump*

No alto recorder yet. VH already sold their secondhand Kobliczek and EMS doesn't seem to want to answer email regardless of whether sent to their Used Instrument Agency or directly to their sales department.

No sopranino, either, because I stupidly only *doubled* the then-current high bid rather than tripling it before going to bed ( Read more... )

At the last minute the bidding on my beautiful portative organ jumped to... *gulp*... $2700 plus $50 shipping.

Not mine after all.

Much woe.

Turns out I will not be able to make it to Balfar's Challenge. Apologies to my Magistra and the northern crowd. I'm still hoping to catch up with all of you sometime soon -- Crown, maybe?

What I'm doing instead is working the New York Book Fair during as-yet-unspecified hours on Friday and Saturday. If anyone is interested in visiting, let me know ( Read more... )

"This instrument has a rich, dark tone..."

WANT SO BADLY!

HAVE STUPID DINKY MINISCULE HANDS TOO SMALL FOR BASS FLUTE!

GAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

*headdesk*