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I learned the baroque flute or traverso with historical flute extraordinaire Aysha Wills! Ready for a deep dive? We get into technique a full lesson! Duets! Instruments! Performances! History! Repertoire! What can I say, it was FUN
Filmed at Splendor, Amsterdam

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00:00 Intro
00:18 Aysha playing
01:37 What inspired you to play the traverso?
02:42 Solo Bach album and Apple Music Classical
05:23 Traverso lesson!
05:57 How to hold it
07:50 Blowing!
09:45 Notes and fingerings
12:49 Range and top notes
17:14 Articulation
20:17 Duets!
21:38 Embouchure
23:59 Meet the flutes! And their evolution
28:17 More duets with recorder too!

/// AYSHA WILLS HISTORICAL FLUTIST
Website: https://www.ayshawills.com
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/// INSTRUMENTS
In this video we play on:
a 415Hz traverso after Eigentopf in boxwood by Fridtjof Aurin
a 415Hz traverso after Quantz in grenadilla by Fridtjof Aurin
a 392Hz traverso after Pierre Naust in boxwood by Fridtjof Aurin
a 415Hz alto recorder in rosewood by Joachim Rohmer

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