Ronde by Susato

 From the Brian Bonsor book

Aulos Haka alto

Rustic Dance

 Rustic Dance by Alan Ridout, from Trevor Wye 1. A bit tricky, its in F so has a Bb in it, but with most Bs as naturals.

Happy Birthday Paganini

 Born this day 1782, Niccolò Paganini

Happy Birthday Scarlatti

 Happy Birthday Domenico Scarlatti, born this day 1685

Oktober

 A little something for spooky season, pedal held down throughout 

Happy Bicentennary Strauss!

 A special anniversary today. On this day 200 years ago Johann Strauss II, the father of dance music, was born.

My mini tribute, on alto recorder.

Pastorale

 A simple one line piece in The Guitarist's Way book 3, played in the 7th position.

Couple of flute pieces

Recently I played Guter Mond on alto recorder, and today I decided to play it on flute, using the same key, which meant playing low C.

Then I tried Fauré's Pavane, playing the second part in the second octave.

New instrument, Aulos Pipit

 Got this yesterday, £6 from Vinted.

Its called a Fife but its more like a keyless piccolo in C.

Aulos 21C Pipit mkII

Three Note Chords

 An exercise in 3 parts in The Guitarist's Way book 3 

2 recorder pieces

 Learned 2 pieces today, one for soprano, one for alto.

Revisiting the soprano

 I began playing the soprano recorder in 2016 and I made my way through most of The School Recorder book 1. After a while I moved onto the alto and tenor and the little sop sat collecting dust. Till now!

Autumn Leaves

Autumn Leaves on flute. This went a lot better than it did when I played it on clarinet the other day. Flute is way easier and more satisfying. No sheet, played from memory, just went for it and got this in one take. Boy that felt good!

Playing in the 7th position

 A piece in The Guitarist's Way book 3 playing in the VII position (fret 7). 

Autumn Leaves

 Had to try this song just because its Autumn. Can do better. Want to try a piano version.

2 on melodica

 Father Halpin's Topcoat and Also Sprach Zarathustra, a piece that uses the whole keyboard!

Suzuki 37C melodica

Second octave on clarinet

 Ok so I checked my Windsor clarinet for leaks, all good, its solid!

So I stuck a reed on and went for the second octave. And considering I haven't played in a while I got a good run up to high C I think. It was fairly easy. The trick is to sound sweet rather than just loud. That will come with practise.

Now I just need to tighten my embouchure and continue with the Rubank book...

Windsor plastic horn

Babbit student mpc

Legere European cut 2.5.

Carnival

 A piece from The Guitarist's Way played on piano with my own middle section.

Boogie...

 A fun blues piece in the Guitarist's Way book 3

Reverie

 A little piece I came up with while practising guitar.

Legend

 Legend from The Guitarist's Way book 3.

This was a tough nut to crack. Its not perfect; there are moments when my nail is hitting the adjacent string on the way back down to the correct string, but the string spacing is closer on this Valencia. Sounds tons better than the Jose Ferrer though.

I was exhausted afterwards!