Buy Suzuki A-25F 25-Key Andes Recorder-Keyboard w/ Mouthpiece and StrapSuzuki A-25F 25-Key Andes Recorder-Keyboard w/ Mouthpiece and Strap Product Description:
- It's a wind instrument like the Melodion but creates a Recorder sound
- Unlike a Recorder, the Andes allows the performer to play chords
- The Andes has 25 keys with a range of F2 to F4.
- Includes a short mouthpiece, a tube mouthpiece and a strap.
Product Description
This unique instrument looks like a keyboard but sounds like a Recorder! It's a wind instrument like the Melodion but creates a Recorder sound. But unlike a Recorder, the Andes allows the performer to play chords. The Andes has 25 keys with a range of F2 to F4. Includes a short mouthpiece, a tube mouthpiece and a strap.
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Interesting instrument
By D. Burklund
This is basically a series of pitch pipes attached to a piano style keyboard. It sounds somewhere between a whistle flute (like a tin whistle w/o a whole lot of chuff or maybe a soprano recorder) and pan pipes. If you play a melodica you will take to this instrument pretty easily, but there are some subtle differences in the technique needed to play this well. I notice that the tonal quality of notes do change with air pressure--whereas with my two melodicas (each of different manufacture) air pressure really only noticeably affects volume. So you could be playing a run of notes and hit something that sounds too shrill if there's too much pressure or kind of sour if not enough. It takes a bit more practice to keep your tones consistent. That said, it can be kind of neat to be able to do tonal affects.I wish that this had a few more keys. With a tin whistle it's not a problem to play a tune and then do an octave higher on the next go around, but you can only do that with this if you are playing in C natural. If it even had just one more key, the high F#, I could play many of my favorite tunes in G or D. Although, really I just play all the tunes in the mid range but shift keys to change it up a little--it's not like I play in a group or anything.Although the pipes are cased in ABS plastic, the tangents are aluminum. I don't know what the pipes are actually made of. It seems to be solidly built for what it is and the key action is excellent. It is really easy to do glissando effects, the action is so smooth and sensitive. It comes with a standard distance hose like you find on most melodicas and a nice crook mouthpiece that is mostly metal. This allows you to see the keyboard rather well when playing. The other accessory is the neck strap. It is basically a cord with a bracket that slides over a metal button on the back of the instrument. I would advise people to use that at your own risk (or rather, at the risk of damage to your $279 instrument) because the bracket seems to easily come undone. Unfortunately, this thing does not come with a case. I found a nice, inexpensive laptop/briefcase that fits the Andes 25F really well (with room for a couple of music books even).This is a fun, interesting thing to play. I think if I weren't unexpectedly flush with cash at the time I bought this, though, I would have passed on it. I don't regret getting it at all though.
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