Blezinger Ganassi Soprano Recorder in Plumwood Instrument_Curtal with tuning bits and crooks

with tuning bits and crooks for C

Modern processes have made it possible to achieve a sound quality that was previously only a characteristic of low-pitch baroque instruments

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This bench is supplied in kit form with minor assembly required and unpainted legs

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Blezinger Ganassi Soprano Recorder in Plumwood Instrument_Curtal with tuning bits and crooksBlezinger Ganassi soprano recorder in plumwood. In his tutor book on diminutions "La Fontegara", published in Venice in 1535, Sylvestro Ganassi describes how he succeeded in increasing the tonal range of recorder playing over the contemporary one and a half octave by using special fingerings. It is controversial if he alluded to a specific recorder type. Only very few instruments surviving from this period will play more than only one or two extra