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I play trumpet, clarinet and recorders well enough that they keep inviting me to these jam sessions. Classical guitar not too good.
It is a tenor recorder. Those keys are needed for two last holes as they are out of the reach of fingers. It is a fabulous instrument, my favorite, goes well with baroque and rococo music, Telemann especially has written really beautiful music for it.
I like it also when playing traditional jazz and anything Celtic :). This is one of three tenors I have, this one is hand carved from a single piece of pear three.
Listen this from 1:28 forwards, it is a plastic tenor from Yamaha but still quite a nice sound:
I used to work Renaissance Festivals and all the tenor recorders I saw were just short those last two notes.
That was a good sound for a plastic recorder in the video. A lot of that had to do with the player. I played sax when I was in school through my sophomore year of college (alto, tenor, and bari although I did fool around some with a soprano and a honkin' huge bass sax). I took a stab at various string instruments but they stabbed back. I was a vocalist until after 2007 when my idiot allergies pretty much killed my voice. I had a female a cappella band that performed at several Ren Fests in CA in 2006 and 2007. Think Renaissance Andrews Sisters to get an idea of our sound. It was hard finding and keeping singers that could sing tight a cappella harmony.
A cappella is difficult. All voices have to "match" for it to sound good, smallest deviations from the correct tone can be heard.
It's about the same in small acoustic instrumental ensembles. We sometimes, too seldom take whisky and play together with three of my friends, a lute, a guitar and two recorders, and we really need that whisky because when sober you hear your own and others faults too easily.