#double recorder

Yay - here is something new to me...I always love that. A double recorder. (I remember a video by this performer playing the drum and tabor.) I did a (very) little reading about the double recorder and here is what I found. 

“Double recorders weren’t common in the 16th century, but they did happen. The two pipes lay side-by-side and were carved from a single block of wood. There are two forms of this instrument, one where the holes are pierced in staggered positions and the other where the holes are side-by-side. The side-by-side version survived because adjacent holes could be stopped by fingers on the other hand—it was a more limber instrument to play, but it also required a certain agility from the player.

Medieval double recorder, via

Taken, once again, from Montpellier Codex, No.12. The original is in three parts. The arrangement has been made by combining the top two parts, taking whichever one works better at any given moment, and adding the lowest part more-or-less unchanged. The double recorder is the simplest one to play out of the few kinds I make. The performance is a bit rushed, but then, I do not play regularly.