Re: Favourite and Least Favourite Doctors, Companions, Anything!

On 15/07/2025 4:45 pm, Your Name wrote:

On 2025-07-15 00:24:42 +0000, Hornplayer9599 said:

On 7/14/2025 16:27, Your Name wrote:

On 2025-07-14 10:24:54 +0000, Daniel70 said:

On 13/07/2025 7:34 pm, Blueshirt wrote:

Mickmane wrote:

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Talking instruments (you say play, so I guess it's something
like that) I didn't like the 2nd's (I think it was) flute much.

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I think the British prefer the term Recorder.

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I 'studied' the Recorder for a year or so, way back when. Primary School, Grade two or thereabouts.
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I figured it was a cheap version of a Flute ... if you were any good with the Recorder, you would upgrade to a Flute.

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They are two different instruments. The main difference is the way they are held and played.
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A recorder is held perpendicular to the face, with the tip in your mouth, and blown into.
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A flute is held horizontal to the face and blown across (although there are 'end-blown' flutes too). There is also the piccolo, which is basically a small flute.

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And...there is also an alto flute, and a bass flute.

 Yep. There are quite a number of different types of true flute ...
<https://theflutenerd.com/fafqs-how-many-types-of-flutes-are-there/>
 Technically a recorder actually is another type of flute called an "internal duct flute" or a "fipple flute", but they are usually treated as separate woodwind families due to the difference in how they are held and played.
 Another technical sub-family of the flute is the panpipes, also called panflute, but it is also treated as a separate instrument due to having multiple tubes and no finger holes, but played in the same blow-across method as a true flute.

Well done, Your Name. I would have expected this sort of knowledge to have been shown by Hornplayer, even though Horns are a totally different field of Music, so well done. Have you been hiding your musicality under a book or something??

Then there are the flutes you pour your champagne into. ;-)
You can actually use these as a musical instrument too by filling with different levels of liquid and then rubbing the rims with a wet finger to make the sound.
 

Now you're typing!!
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Daniel70