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Hacked Off
Saturday, December 10th, 2011 01:37 pmMother just trimmed my hair, saving me from the nightmare of a visit to the hairdressers'. Actually, she hacked a great huge chunk off, it now has a neat line but it's shorter than I like. I can still tie it back, and it'll be much quicker to wash and dry, but it feels really short cos it just touches my shoulders. I've had it this short before, but it will take some getting used to. It'll be too short for Christmas but hopefully will be back to a more agreeable length for the Olympics.
On a positive side, I've been resurrecting my musical side recently. I now have three recorders, with a fourth on its way as my Christmas present to myself:
Top to bottom: Treble; Sopranino; Descant. I have a Tenor recorder on its way to me. All are mid-range Yamaha recorders, their top range ABS recorders (without paying extra for rosewood-effect finish), however the Sopranino only has this model below expensive wooden and professional grade recorders, so this has a flat windway (like in school recorders) and the others have arched windways, which are the standard on the higher-grade recorders. The descant is nice, I was surprised it needs a bit more finesse to play than my old Dolmetsch from school, but then that's the point of a higher-grade instrument. The sopranino is interesting to play, it was completely new to me, tho I can't practice too late in the evening because it's naturally rather shrill. The treble has a really awesome lightly-mellow tone, I'm trying to play it frequently so I get used to playing a recorder in F for itself, and not as a transposition of recorders in C. Am looking forward to this afternoon's practice.
On a positive side, I've been resurrecting my musical side recently. I now have three recorders, with a fourth on its way as my Christmas present to myself:
Top to bottom: Treble; Sopranino; Descant. I have a Tenor recorder on its way to me. All are mid-range Yamaha recorders, their top range ABS recorders (without paying extra for rosewood-effect finish), however the Sopranino only has this model below expensive wooden and professional grade recorders, so this has a flat windway (like in school recorders) and the others have arched windways, which are the standard on the higher-grade recorders. The descant is nice, I was surprised it needs a bit more finesse to play than my old Dolmetsch from school, but then that's the point of a higher-grade instrument. The sopranino is interesting to play, it was completely new to me, tho I can't practice too late in the evening because it's naturally rather shrill. The treble has a really awesome lightly-mellow tone, I'm trying to play it frequently so I get used to playing a recorder in F for itself, and not as a transposition of recorders in C. Am looking forward to this afternoon's practice.
