I don’t know how you manage to find the exact words that perfectly describe this recorder and how it interacts with other things, but I’m in awe every time at how vast your vocabulary is! ❤️
Hi Sarah! It was so lovely to see you at ORDA It was an amazing event. The kids playing were clearly not coming to class with a smarties toy, cause playing Csardas or the modern loop-station “TelepartY”…wooow! We were treated to some next level recorder playing
I really like the colour coded fingerings! I know it doesn't work for anyone who's colour blind, but it seems to me they're at no real disadvantage compared to normal fingering charts and it could be helpful to the majority of kids who aren't colour blind.
I loved when you threw away the Fairy Princess recorder in the previous video and you did it again 😅😂 loved it! 31 smarties instead of 16, you lucky girl!😊
The sound of the Smarties recorder does sound a lot closer to my 35ish year old school recorder, but in fairness to the school recorder I was the one playing it so some woolliness is to be expected. Loved the review.
I think it deserves recognition when people who are tasked to create a product fast and cheap, when they nevertheless care, and use the resources and the time they got, to make a decent instrument for the money!
I appreciate the sentiment but we are talking about Smarties here, owned by NESTLE with a net worth of $264 BILLION. I think they could utilise all the resources and time they needed to make a product without such glaring mistakes 😂
Huh. What’s the price you paid for that? At least you got smarties (which Vanessa @FraserGartshore would love) for it. They seem to be using horizontal note spacing for rhythmic indication. Not nice, very confusing to a musician, but again little kids might just intuitively make it work, especially if they ever heard the tune, and maybe that’s why there’s those videos… still a minus, but the fingering coding is nicely done. (I *would* love to see you reviewing an English cross-fingering Ocarina. I bought a four-hole one for my nephew as it has less holes ⇒ less chance for nōn-note pitches, and a six-hole one myself to learn it and maybe teach, and I’ve shown it to others, who’ve also found it interesting, and it’s a bargain.) 2:41 where Sarah used baroque F on german recorder out of habit 2:43 where she had quietly noticed it and corrected it ☻ Yeah, it’s annoying. I spent so much time on german fingering and now use baroque that I often confuse the two or am unsure about the fingering to use…
I recently bought, as a joke, a Woodnote acid-green plastic recorder for 5€. Ugly as sin, not the purest sound in the world, a bit shrill, but quite fair. Three parts, perfectly tuned baroque fingering and an even span of 2 full octaves. I ended up quite enjoying it.😂
@anniehelman3516 - I have a Woodnote alto (black and looks quite smart) that I bought at a music festival years ago for less than a tenner. I liked it because the finger stretch was less than on most altos so I could play it more easily. Like your soprano the tuning isn't bad. I tried improving the sound by roughing up the inner bore with some sand paper (it now has a more complex/interesting sound in the lower octave but the higher notes are harder to play and quite breathy, so, swings and roundabouts) This was a tip from an old recorder forum I used to belong to, and since the instrument cost so little I thought I'd have a go.
@@annieoakley3516 - I actually played it after leaving the comment and it sounds pretty good. I like playing around with cheapy recorders - covering the window with tape mutes a loud/shrill soprano and placing something (I use a plastic note marker, but a tiny straw is fun too) into the mouthpiece makes it sound more breathy: make sure you can get it out though!!
It's not brilliant, but if it gets just a few children into playing music then that's great. Hopefully their parents will get them a better recorder (which is not an overly expensive instrument) before too long. BTW, I did wonder if the muted and breathy tone was designed to save parents' ears!
Hi Sarah, I love your channel and the videos! You made me fall in love with the recorder. What type of recorder (sopranino, soprano,...) would you recommend for a beginner? Easiest for playing overall (fingering, reading notes etc.) One of the songs I would like to play is El Choclo (probably a far stretch for me...) and maybe some other classical music like Bolero, Can Can and Four Seasons from Vivaldi. Thank you for your time! 😊
My wife got me a German fingering soprano as a gift without knowing any difference, and after having spent my first several months learning Baroque fingerings, I found myself, very much to my own surprise, preferring the new-to-me German fingerings. Perhaps my lifelong experience as a saxophonist has something to do with that.
Nope it's completely irrelevant experience. The German fingering was designed to be easier and for teaching kids in the 50s but once you get past basic songs it's dry limiting. Never fall down the German finger pitfall.
I agree that they were just leaving rhythm out of the tunes included. There were no time signatures either. It’s an interesting choice, but I think it was a conscious one. They should have just left the ‘bar lines’ out and it would be less confusing to those of us who can read music. Not sure about encouraging kids to blow sugar breath thru their instruments 🫤
Yes, didn't expect it to be that good, and yet - gee, if only they threw in the time signatures and the concept of longer notes. Seems like a great recorder for non-playing parents with Alpha-Gen kids to have some fun.
Aulos vs. Yamaha; Fairy Princess vs. Smarties: the two big rivalries in the world of plastic recorders. Do bear in mind these are the first instruments produced by these companies; we have to give them a chance to develop and improve. I predict that in ten years' time, we'll all be playing Fairy Princess or Smarties recorders, and everyone will have forgotten about Aulos and Yamaha.
Well presented and enjoyed the humor. Where was this recorder made, and why would they choose German fingering (for a product marketed more as a toy) over Baroque? What 'pros' are there to German fingering? Figuring if they chose German, there must be a reason.
My guess is that to go from E to F in the German system, you only have to lift the middle finger of the right hand, rather than have to deal with the forked fingering of F in the Baroque system, so, as a starter instrument, it's more accessible fingering-wise.
OMG I recognize Stefan Temmig, I luv his Fantasia 10 so much!!! Send kisses his way if you frens. Is it an optical illusion coz of those colours or are the holes BIG? OMGosh I was just playing Au Printemps (I believe) in my mind this morning, what sorcery is this??? I must say I'm getting better at hearing differences, I noticed the wooly sound and the off low note when you were demonstrating! Lmao why do you still have that pink trashcorder? Plz don't dent your wooden floors with it! Oooooh what was that folk tune at the end??? I'm still s**t at rhythm tho I don't think kiddies not serious about music will be able to follow...
Have you seen the Nuvo recorder+ yet? It has silicone finger pads to help small kids cover the holes. It's actually not too bad for a young kid or someone that has a hard time covering the holes.
Ich empfehle für Anfänger die Yamaha YRS-24b; 11€. Nicht viel teurer als eine Spielzeugflöte. Aber wesentlich besser und kein unnötiger Müll dabei. 😊 Habe mit ihr sehr gute Erfahrungen gemacht.
This type of video suits you pretty 😂 Oh and the Photos you used at the beginning of the video What is this big « old »tenor recorder Also can you make a video with the person who make the Dragon Recorder ? (Look so cool)
@@squeezeboxben - that's what I thought. I think they were Rowntree - a company based in the Midlands - like Cadbury. Unfortunately, Rowntree were bought out by Nestle. Rowntree also made fruit pastilles.
There's an instrument kinda resembles the recorder and its called the Dilli Kaval and its played throughout the Balkans (in Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Southern Serbia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Northern Greece, and elsewhere) and Anatolia (including Turkey and Armenia). I wish you can review it❤.
I did a video with the amazing Cengiz Arslanpay, who plays the Turkish and Persian ney, and I think we talked a bit about kaval too? Check it out! I also played a short impro with a kaval player in a concert last month so will throw that up on the channel later today 😊
At least this one is somewhat playable and the sounds it makes resemble real music. Quite a step up from the Fairy Princess one. But I would not buy it because I boycott anything from Nestlé. It is one of the worst if not the worst company on the planet.
Now that's an idea - a recorder made from hard candy like the necklaces. When parents had had enough they could simply say "Shut up and eat your recorder" - most kids would probably do that.
Maybe the transcriptions of children's tunes are done by a Hungarian or Greek editor. So the long and short steps to dance along are accomodated by the odd time signature.
to be fair, the simplification of rhythm is understood in the context of a child - I mean really little, kindergarten maybe? - just starting to read music, as a kind of tablature (at least I've seen something like that in the context of folk/popular music, just a list with fingering numbers, assuming the person knows the melody and the rhythmic patterns are at their own expense)
You did not mention the price, so I tried to find it in an online shop. This was quite hard. I found one taxfree shop selling it for US$ 24 which is quite alot for a toy, maybe .. I think as a toy it can be nice for a few days and if the child is happy with it, you may discuss music lessons before she or he gets used to the German fingering (even Germans don't like it)
I think maybe they made it by German fingering because Smarties are made in German? Possibly. Anyway, surprising sound! I wouldn't mind the woolly sound, though the tuning is meh.
I don't think so. In the end, the German fingering is much more easier at the beginning because the f is simply more "logical" to see and understand. But I think that it is called "flute" instead of "recorder" because of the German production location. In German, the instrument is called "flute" = "Flöte".
Oh, come on professor! I hope you’re not planning to throw that Fairy Princess so-called recorder, as “a piece of waste material,” away? What do you mean "there was absolutely no salvaging that Fairy Princess abomination"? I suggest that you do as Clint Eastwood in the 1986 movie “Heartbreak Ridge” would do, “Improvise, adapt and overcome.” And, in this case, use it as a backscratcher. 😂
As a dad with a 7 year old... I can see the appeal of this. My duaghter I don't think would take good care of it, so I would be hesitant of getting a nice student model. Plus the fact that it's not wanting to study music on more of a reliable time. Probably for a week, get bored and move on.
Omg how strange lol. I thought you like…plugged the smarties into it or something lol. There’s like nooooo explanation or reasoning of why it comes with candy at all 😅🥰
I've bought Angel Recorders that were cheaper at the time which were actually in tune and Baroque fingering. Toys like this with German fingering piss me off.
Corporate vendors trying to be teachers... no; often falls flat on it's corporate face. Rhythmic differentiation in printed music needs to be taught properly to brand new juvenile players. The Smarties people should have left the design of the teaching material to real recorder players/general musicians for a decent result. And German fingering? As somebody who plays both ways, Baroque fingering every time for consistency, tuning accuracy and ease, please.
I'm sorry! Everybody knows that is out of law offering candies for kids in the education progress and worse with a german lower tuning. Have always good things!
Supporting China in buying their goods has proven to be disastrous. Not to be the bearer of bad news, but certain large areas in the World are closing down. Sad times
I'm sorry to say that these kind of reviews start to be too silly for me. It's like to see a world famous sommelier tasting and evaluating pee. Why just say that these things are unsuitable for music, for fun, for education and stop? Sorry but I disagree with this kind of videos.
@@sfmans As I wrote before, there's no need (and no fun from my point of view) to be a world famous sommelier and and discuss what this or that glass of pee tastes like. And this is not just a reaction for a single video, that's why I wrote my comment.
I can tell you’re very pleased with your analogy, so I checked youtube and there is an awesome series by Bon Appetit, where a world famous sommelier tastes all kinds of budget wines. Really fun videos, thanks for the tip!
@@Team_Recorder I'm pleased because it's exactly what you're doing in these kind of videos. Are they funny? Maybe at the beginning but after a while they started to be annoying (at least for me) I just wanted to let you know that. More Handel' Sonatas interpretation videos please!
I don’t know how you manage to find the exact words that perfectly describe this recorder and how it interacts with other things, but I’m in awe every time at how vast your vocabulary is! ❤️
Loved you casually throwing the fairy princess recorder behind you 😂
it deserves it
@@Team_Recorder it does, clearly, but seeing you as a professional recorder player throw a recorder away made me laugh 😂
@@melissajaninepeters3694honestly I’d argue it was more of a “recorder-shaped object” than a recorder😂
@@peteroselador6132 you're absolutely right 😄
Hi Sarah!
It was so lovely to see you at ORDA
It was an amazing event. The kids playing were clearly not coming to class with a smarties toy, cause playing Csardas or the modern loop-station “TelepartY”…wooow! We were treated to some next level recorder playing
I just love that a big name chocolate brand is trying to introduce music to children, so valuable, especially in the UK!!
Sie haben recht. Aber die Firma könnte auch einen besseren Recorder benutzen.
i lost it when they arranged twinkle twinkle little star in 74 😂
wow their version of mary had a little lamb is so advanced, it even has time signiture changes
And microtonal tuning to boot
I really like the colour coded fingerings! I know it doesn't work for anyone who's colour blind, but it seems to me they're at no real disadvantage compared to normal fingering charts and it could be helpful to the majority of kids who aren't colour blind.
I love that little dig - "a very cool version in 7/4" 🤣🤣
I loved when you threw away the Fairy Princess recorder in the previous video and you did it again 😅😂 loved it!
31 smarties instead of 16, you lucky girl!😊
I love all your videos! These type of videos are so fun....it reminds me of my kids wanting to buy everything they see in the store!
The sound of the Smarties recorder does sound a lot closer to my 35ish year old school recorder, but in fairness to the school recorder I was the one playing it so some woolliness is to be expected. Loved the review.
Hi once again ! I was sooo happy to meet you for real at orda, thank you a lot for everything you do, and enjoy the smarties, lucky you !!
Lovely to meet you too! ❤️
Luv Sarah's unique gift approval scale, LOL
No review of the smarties??? Now THAT is worthy of ASMR lol
I like how your immediate instinct was still to play baroque fingering.
"Fueled by sugar"
As a theatre musician that is exactly how we do it so in my eyes it's just getting them ready
I think it deserves recognition when people who are tasked to create a product fast and cheap, when they nevertheless care, and use the resources and the time they got, to make a decent instrument for the money!
I appreciate the sentiment but we are talking about Smarties here, owned by NESTLE with a net worth of $264 BILLION. I think they could utilise all the resources and time they needed to make a product without such glaring mistakes 😂
Huh. What’s the price you paid for that? At least you got smarties (which Vanessa @FraserGartshore would love) for it.
They seem to be using horizontal note spacing for rhythmic indication. Not nice, very confusing to a musician, but again little kids might just intuitively make it work, especially if they ever heard the tune, and maybe that’s why there’s those videos… still a minus, but the fingering coding is nicely done.
(I *would* love to see you reviewing an English cross-fingering Ocarina. I bought a four-hole one for my nephew as it has less holes ⇒ less chance for nōn-note pitches, and a six-hole one myself to learn it and maybe teach, and I’ve shown it to others, who’ve also found it interesting, and it’s a bargain.)
2:41 where Sarah used baroque F on german recorder out of habit
2:43 where she had quietly noticed it and corrected it ☻
Yeah, it’s annoying. I spent so much time on german fingering and now use baroque that I often confuse the two or am unsure about the fingering to use…
I recently bought, as a joke, a Woodnote acid-green plastic recorder for 5€. Ugly as sin, not the purest sound in the world, a bit shrill, but quite fair. Three parts, perfectly tuned baroque fingering and an even span of 2 full octaves. I ended up quite enjoying it.😂
@anniehelman3516 - I have a Woodnote alto (black and looks quite smart) that I bought at a music festival years ago for less than a tenner. I liked it because the finger stretch was less than on most altos so I could play it more easily. Like your soprano the tuning isn't bad. I tried improving the sound by roughing up the inner bore with some sand paper (it now has a more complex/interesting sound in the lower octave but the higher notes are harder to play and quite breathy, so, swings and roundabouts) This was a tip from an old recorder forum I used to belong to, and since the instrument cost so little I thought I'd have a go.
@honeychurchgipsy6 thanks for the tip, I might have a go as well! Not much to lose, haha!
@@annieoakley3516 - I actually played it after leaving the comment and it sounds pretty good. I like playing around with cheapy recorders - covering the window with tape mutes a loud/shrill soprano and placing something (I use a plastic note marker, but a tiny straw is fun too) into the mouthpiece makes it sound more breathy: make sure you can get it out though!!
It's not brilliant, but if it gets just a few children into playing music then that's great. Hopefully their parents will get them a better recorder (which is not an overly expensive instrument) before too long. BTW, I did wonder if the muted and breathy tone was designed to save parents' ears!
Sarah you can make any recorder sound good, even the cheapest lowest quality. 🎉😅😂❤
...I want to agree but there was absolutely no salvaging that Fairy Princess abomination.
I always loved Smarties and OFCOURSE they made a recorder. 😂
Hi Sarah, I love your channel and the videos! You made me fall in love with the recorder.
What type of recorder (sopranino, soprano,...) would you recommend for a beginner? Easiest for playing overall (fingering, reading notes etc.)
One of the songs I would like to play is El Choclo (probably a far stretch for me...) and maybe some other classical music like Bolero, Can Can and Four Seasons from Vivaldi.
Thank you for your time! 😊
My wife got me a German fingering soprano as a gift without knowing any difference, and after having spent my first several months learning Baroque fingerings, I found myself, very much to my own surprise, preferring the new-to-me German fingerings. Perhaps my lifelong experience as a saxophonist has something to do with that.
Nope it's completely irrelevant experience. The German fingering was designed to be easier and for teaching kids in the 50s but once you get past basic songs it's dry limiting. Never fall down the German finger pitfall.
Was the Handel tune you were quoting?
I agree that they were just leaving rhythm out of the tunes included. There were no time signatures either. It’s an interesting choice, but I think it was a conscious one. They should have just left the ‘bar lines’ out and it would be less confusing to those of us who can read music.
Not sure about encouraging kids to blow sugar breath thru their instruments 🫤
The thing is: How does the smarties taste?
Yes, didn't expect it to be that good, and yet - gee, if only they threw in the time signatures and the concept of longer notes. Seems like a great recorder for non-playing parents with Alpha-Gen kids to have some fun.
The sound somewhat resembles that of the ocarina.
Aulos vs. Yamaha; Fairy Princess vs. Smarties: the two big rivalries in the world of plastic recorders. Do bear in mind these are the first instruments produced by these companies; we have to give them a chance to develop and improve. I predict that in ten years' time, we'll all be playing Fairy Princess or Smarties recorders, and everyone will have forgotten about Aulos and Yamaha.
The fairy princess recorder has put the bar so low lol
I wonder what inspired them to make this product.
Ugh, this recorder and music guide/tutorial bombs.
Thanks! 😎
Well presented and enjoyed the humor. Where was this recorder made, and why would they choose German fingering (for a product marketed more as a toy) over Baroque? What 'pros' are there to German fingering? Figuring if they chose German, there must be a reason.
My guess is that to go from E to F in the German system, you only have to lift the middle finger of the right hand, rather than have to deal with the forked fingering of F in the Baroque system, so, as a starter instrument, it's more accessible fingering-wise.
@@organist1982 Thanks!
OMG I recognize Stefan Temmig, I luv his Fantasia 10 so much!!! Send kisses his way if you frens.
Is it an optical illusion coz of those colours or are the holes BIG?
OMGosh I was just playing Au Printemps (I believe) in my mind this morning, what sorcery is this???
I must say I'm getting better at hearing differences, I noticed the wooly sound and the off low note when you were demonstrating!
Lmao why do you still have that pink trashcorder? Plz don't dent your wooden floors with it!
Oooooh what was that folk tune at the end???
I'm still s**t at rhythm tho I don't think kiddies not serious about music will be able to follow...
Twinkle Twinkle in 7/4 😂 Rests? What are rests?? You want to take a rest while playing music? NO! PLAY!
PLAYYYY
Have you seen the Nuvo recorder+ yet? It has silicone finger pads to help small kids cover the holes. It's actually not too bad for a young kid or someone that has a hard time covering the holes.
Ich empfehle für Anfänger die Yamaha YRS-24b; 11€. Nicht viel teurer als eine Spielzeugflöte. Aber wesentlich besser und kein unnötiger Müll dabei. 😊 Habe mit ihr sehr gute Erfahrungen gemacht.
Now I want some smarties.
This type of video suits you pretty 😂
Oh and the Photos you used at the beginning of the video What is this big « old »tenor recorder
Also can you make a video with the person who make the Dragon Recorder ? (Look so cool)
there's a very little gap between the different note lenght to pass the sense of rhythm if you look closely... it's not enough, but it's there
Smarties are a Canadian chocolate. They are so good. I eat these all the time when I was a kid and I still eat them now as an adult.
@@squeezeboxben - that's what I thought. I think they were Rowntree - a company based in the Midlands - like Cadbury. Unfortunately, Rowntree were bought out by Nestle. Rowntree also made fruit pastilles.
next you should turn the tube of smarties into a recorder
Or several of them into panpipes, or really small boomwhackers, or a tubaphone 😃
9:33 Nice scaling system
There's an instrument kinda resembles the recorder and its called the Dilli Kaval and its played throughout the Balkans (in Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Southern Serbia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Northern Greece, and elsewhere) and Anatolia (including Turkey and Armenia). I wish you can review it❤.
I did a video with the amazing Cengiz Arslanpay, who plays the Turkish and Persian ney, and I think we talked a bit about kaval too? Check it out! I also played a short impro with a kaval
player in a concert last month so will throw that up on the channel later today 😊
The things you can find in Europe...in Australia you can only find the regular/standard stock of recorders
Prog rock time signature candy recorder music. Sold
Smarties should do what they do best: make sweets. The tuning is terrible, but might improve with chocolate drooled in the tube and holes...
I. must. Have. One
At least this one is somewhat playable and the sounds it makes resemble real music. Quite a step up from the Fairy Princess one. But I would not buy it because I boycott anything from Nestlé. It is one of the worst if not the worst company on the planet.
I am disappointed, once your done with the recorder, or if it's broken you can't eat the recorder itself.
Now that's an idea - a recorder made from hard candy like the necklaces. When parents had had enough they could simply say "Shut up and eat your recorder" - most kids would probably do that.
@@honeychurchgipsy6 👍🏽😄
Maybe the transcriptions of children's tunes are done by a Hungarian or Greek editor. So the long and short steps to dance along are accomodated by the odd time signature.
to be fair, the simplification of rhythm is understood in the context of a child - I mean really little, kindergarten maybe? - just starting to read music, as a kind of tablature (at least I've seen something like that in the context of folk/popular music, just a list with fingering numbers, assuming the person knows the melody and the rhythmic patterns are at their own expense)
For a cheap recorder probably used in
classrooms doesn't sound too shabby
You did not mention the price, so I tried to find it in an online shop. This was quite hard. I found one taxfree shop selling it for US$ 24 which is quite alot for a toy, maybe .. I think as a toy it can be nice for a few days and if the child is happy with it, you may discuss music lessons before she or he gets used to the German fingering (even Germans don't like it)
31 smarties! A win.
I actually like Twinkle Twinkle better in 7/4.
But the most important question: When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last?
Definitely wasn't trying to be an octave, that C 😂
Dear Sarah, please make speaking's and recorders' volume at the same level.
I think maybe they made it by German fingering because Smarties are made in German? Possibly. Anyway, surprising sound! I wouldn't mind the woolly sound, though the tuning is meh.
I don't think so. In the end, the German fingering is much more easier at the beginning because the f is simply more "logical" to see and understand.
But I think that it is called "flute" instead of "recorder" because of the German production location. In German, the instrument is called "flute" = "Flöte".
*PromoSM* 😔
Oh, come on professor! I hope you’re not planning to throw that Fairy Princess so-called recorder, as “a piece of waste material,” away? What do you mean "there was absolutely no salvaging that Fairy Princess abomination"? I suggest that you do as Clint Eastwood in the 1986 movie “Heartbreak Ridge” would do, “Improvise, adapt and overcome.” And, in this case, use it as a backscratcher. 😂
review smarteis plz
Recorders are flutes, aren't they?
Smarties are produced in Germany. The translation of "recorder" in German is "Flöte", i.e. "flute". That's certainly where the name comes from.
I can't believe a candy company did this
As a dad with a 7 year old... I can see the appeal of this. My duaghter I don't think would take good care of it, so I would be hesitant of getting a nice student model. Plus the fact that it's not wanting to study music on more of a reliable time. Probably for a week, get bored and move on.
I hope your floor is holding up to the constant battering from that fairy princess recorder😎
Omg how strange lol. I thought you like…plugged the smarties into it or something lol. There’s like nooooo explanation or reasoning of why it comes with candy at all 😅🥰
R YOU OK... 0:00. omg Don't eat the whole box
scientifique!
Gift me this 😩✨
The tuning isn't great either,ithought the smarties recorder was flat.i was right.
That music creator flute sounds like it's going through puberty
Just to let you know, I know in America or somewhere smarties are actually not chocolate .
American here. They are most definitely not chocolate in the USA; they're more of a citrus-y sugar wafer thing.
Oh weird! Here they’re a similar idea to M&Ms but flatter and less tasty
I've bought Angel Recorders that were cheaper at the time which were actually in tune and Baroque fingering. Toys like this with German fingering piss me off.
I like your speaking style. As if forcing me to see it.😅
It's another soprano Recorder.
"Thats was not even an octave"... peuww.. I thougt my poor tinnitus ears were shot for good... :)
Corporate vendors trying to be teachers... no; often falls flat on it's corporate face. Rhythmic differentiation in printed music needs to be taught properly to brand new juvenile players. The Smarties people should have left the design of the teaching material to real recorder players/general musicians for a decent result. And German fingering? As somebody who plays both ways, Baroque fingering every time for consistency, tuning accuracy and ease, please.
I'm sorry! Everybody knows that is out of law offering candies for kids in the education progress and worse with a german lower tuning. Have always good things!
Why would a candy company make a flute, the post-modern world is nuts.
Bestie I thought you were going to say swearword when you said this is a piece of waste material
my poor fairy princess recorder just gets no respect.
Holy crap! All gimmick, no musical tune.
Supporting China in buying their goods has proven to be disastrous. Not to be the bearer of bad news, but certain large areas in the World are closing down. Sad times
I'm sorry to say that these kind of reviews start to be too silly for me. It's like to see a world famous sommelier tasting and evaluating pee.
Why just say that these things are unsuitable for music, for fun, for education and stop? Sorry but I disagree with this kind of videos.
We are all allowed to have fun once in a while 😉
Don't be a misery, Sarah does the vast majority of her videos on serious subjects. Whatever you do, don't watch any of the videos Jon appears in 😮
@@sfmans As I wrote before, there's no need (and no fun from my point of view) to be a world famous sommelier and and discuss what this or that glass of pee tastes like. And this is not just a reaction for a single video, that's why I wrote my comment.
I can tell you’re very pleased with your analogy, so I checked youtube and there is an awesome series by Bon Appetit, where a world famous sommelier tastes all kinds of budget wines. Really fun videos, thanks for the tip!
@@Team_Recorder I'm pleased because it's exactly what you're doing in these kind of videos. Are they funny? Maybe at the beginning but after a while they started to be annoying (at least for me) I just wanted to let you know that. More Handel' Sonatas interpretation videos please!
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