Sigo bass fun

 A couple of pieces on the bass, one of which is my own "composition" that I came up with on clarinet a few years ago. 

Something Blue:

Happy Birthday x2

 Happy Birthday to these 2 musical pioneers

Happy Birthday

 Napoleon Coste

Born this day 1805

A surprise recorder

 A Facebook friend kindly sent me a 3D printed stand for my Sigo tenor and along with it there was a surprise. A 3D printed copy of his 45 year old Hopf soprano. In gold plastic.

Looks and sounds great. Its single hole with a massive bore so is very clear and loud!

Happy Birthday Chet Atkins

 Born this day 1924

Sigo stuff

 So back in January before all this Myeloma crap came up I bought myself a Sigo tenor recorder, a new type of recorder made as a collaboration between the Kunath family who gave the world those weird giant wooden recorders, and Gerry Bollinger, a recorder designer. The internal bore is twisted back on itself and the outside bore is sort of square. As a result the tenor is about the size of an alto, but with finger holes closer together so its much easier to play than a regular tenor, although the low notes are a bit of a struggle; there's no foot joint. Just 2 pieces, headjoint and the body, is very lightweight, and is more versatile, giving the player more freedom to express him or herself.

Zoom forward to June and Jo Kunath heard about my cancer diagnosis and offered to send me a Sigo bass, for free. Like I'm gonna say no to that. I've long wanted to try a bass recorder and oh man is it good!

The instruments are 3D printed and made of something called Resona, which is basically wood particles suspended in modified vegetable starches. Pretty remarkable.

Here's the two side by side.

Anyway here's some videos of them. First the tenor

Now the bass. What a beast!

Happy Birthday Igor Stravinsky

 Born this day 1882