YAMAHA Recorder - Alto baroque fingering, white

Good quality, purchased for my 10 year old, she can only just reach all the notes but is small for her age. Good sound Pleased.

It has a pleasant alto sound compared to the soprano version - hence we purchased this. My wife can play it brilliantly. Build quality is also excellent, it feels good to hold in your hands.

High quality instrument with a nice sound.

Arrived promptly. Is of good quality as far as I - a novice player -can tell.

Purchased this today and had a good play on it. I can read music but like to play by ear mostly. Flute (recorder) has a nice enough tone and is a full eight hole octave, in the normal British fingering Baroque Style with the handy half holes which is used by schools, music colleges, universities etc. It is of a sturdy, well made construction, rather like the Aulios but unlike other makes, this comes in a nice cheery cream colour, which makes a pleasant change to your usual dark tones. Accessories are a zipper fabric ‘protection case’ along with a fingering chart, tub of joint lube - which is obviously vaseline ! - a plastic cleaning rod, joint protection spacers and a contact list of Yamaha global head offices. Dropped a star cos it clogs quite easily which can affect sound quality, but that’s what you have to expect with plastic and for this price range. More expensive ones are more refined and don’t clog so easily, neither do the wooden ones; but bear in mind wood is harder to clean. If it’s an issue for you and you need to play reliably for longer periods of time, then it’s best to spend double this price at least. I’m happy enough with mine though, as it goes the distance for me before clogging (about half an hour) and serves its purpose. Comfortable for a teenager/adult to hold with an average to small handspan and easy enough to get your fingers around. I originally learned recorder in the typical key of C and this starts in F but it was surprisingly easy to make the adjustment AND I much prefer the Alto to those squeaky school Sopranos!!

Nice sound. I've enjoyed learning it.

Bought for Xmas present my son loved it

Happy with the purchase. It sounds exactly as my previous model, Yamaha YRa 28BII. Quick posting too! Would buy again if needed.

لم اري شيء مما تمت كتابته في الوصف و طلبت الارجاع منذ فترة بعيدة و لم يتم رد اموالي حتي الان و انا غاضب جدا و ربما اضطر الي تحريك دعوي قضائية

Perfect one but look so long

Unsere Tochter hat nach einigen Jahren Unterricht auf der Sopran-Blockflöte nun zur Alt-Blockflöte gewechselt. Nachdem zuletzt die Lust am Flöten schon ziemlich darnieder lag, spielt sie (wohl auch Dank des verhältnismäßig schönen warmen Klangs der neuen Flöte) wieder mehr - und ehrlich gesagt, macht es auch wieder mehr Spaß ihr zuzuhören. Insgesamt kommt sie als Altflöten-Anfängerin wohl gut damit zurecht. Optisch hatte sie sich die Flöte selbst ausgesucht und entspricht den Vorstellungen. Was die Tochter allerdings bestätigt, ist die vermehrte Speichelsammlung. Aber gerade zum Ausprobieren ein unschlagbares Preis-Leistungsverhältnis.

Fast response and quick delivery. Item received in good condition. Larger than the Soprano recorder. Takes a short while to get use to it. A German type would be easier for me since I am used to German type.

I'm an amateur musician, and don't have much to compare this recorder to, so I can't vouch that if you're a professional, you'll like it as much as I have, but I like it a lot. I've been playing penny whistle for fun. After getting this recorder and learning how to use it, I now find penny whistle frustratingly limiting. The range of music you can play on recorder vs penny whistle is vastly higher. All those sharps and flats, easy to reach. Play in a very large number of keys, easily, vs penny whistle typically gives you maybe two keys easily. This particular recorder feels very solid and well made. I like the weight of it. I never notice it being too heavy nor too light as I play it - I don't even think of its weight as I play it - I simply naturally find myself enjoying the feel of it in my hands. I very much enjoy the sound quality in the upper two thirds or so of the lower octave, and find the sound quality in the lower two thirds of the upper octave very pleasant (but the upper portion of the lower octave is the most beautiful to my ear). Lowest notes are limiting, at least for me: It might be a fault with me as the player, or with me not having bothered to apply the lubricating grease that came with it, or perhaps somehow due to me never formally cleaning the instrument (although I look inside it from time to time, and it looks clean), but for some reason, I find the lowest notes difficult to play with pleasant tone at volume. I can play them very quietly with pleasant tone most of the time. But I was expecting rich, clear, reverberating lowest notes at decent volume, instead of very quiet to get decent tone. Again, the recorder might be well capable of it and me be at fault for this - I don't know. I greatly enjoy playing this instrument, and have come to a deep appreciation of the recorder as a technology. The different ways you can finger to get the same note, allowing selection of most appropriate fingering for whatever note you're going to play next (or you've just played). (Contrast the penny whistle.) The clean, clear sounds (contrast the distinctive penny whistle breath-y tone, which has its own charm, but it's nice to be able to play something _without_ that breath-iness). The almost effortless production of notes and tunes that I enjoy playing and hearing myself play. Also, I love how wonderfully well this comes packaged. There is a case (a good one), and end caps, that allow the recorder to be broken down to approx half its length for travel or storage, and protected very well while doing so. Most of the time, the recorder sits on one of my desks, and I pick it up often a dozen or more times in a day and enjoy tooting out a little tune for a minute or a few. But when I travel, I can take it with me, without its assembled length being a problem.