Mollenhauer, "Canta", comfort bent tenor in c', baroque double hole, with double key and middle piec

 Mollenhauer Tenor, Pearwood
Baroque Doublehole, Item: 2446KC -MOLL Natural, 442 Hz

The recorder with the model number: 2446KC -MOLL manufactured by Mollenhauer is a companion, the in making music always can make joy.
This peculiarity is based to a large part on the considerate marriage of the genius model in interplay with the sound of the material Pearwood.

The material creates in this instrument a pleasant characteristic, by its extraordinary preferences. The characteristics can described in the following words: very inadequately with words. Therefore the sound of recorders is perceived and described by each person in details differently. We say: Pearwood: Soft, choral sound. Suitable for playing in a group

The bore

The geometry of the inner bore of the instrument is light cylindroconical. This kind of bore shape gives the instrument this special tone.
In principle, recorders with wider bore sound warmer, fuller, more fundamental and thus more suitable for ensembles than instruments with narrower scale.

For what styles can this instrument best be used for?

Pearwood is greatly suitable for recorders used for: focus on choral playing, recorder ensembles and orchestras, other styles are possible.

To whom is this musical instrument addressed?

This means that instruments made of Pearwood are especially for ambitious amateurs and advanced players suitable. An additional to be heeded principle is that a quality instrument makes the learning in most cases pleasant apparently low-cost offer.

The windway of the recorder

The windway is the area in the head of the instrument where the blowing air of the musician is formed into a sheet of air. This air leaf is the determining element of the sound of the recorder. In interaction with the labium, the air flow is very quickly alternately directed inwards and outwards. This swinging stream stimulates the air in the bore. This is the origin of the recorder sound. This is the reason why the labium must never be damaged. The same applies to the windway. Otherwise suffer the range of musical expressiveness of the recorder.

The windway of the recorder 2446KC -MOLL of Mollenhauer has this windway shape: Curved, cylindrical.
Conical shaped windways accelerate breathing air more than cylindrical windways.
Never violate windway and labium! Their meaning for the sound is very complex in their geometric shape. Even minor damages here often lead to a total loss!

Fingerings

The recorder Mollenhauer 2446KC -MOLL is manufactured in the version: Baroque Doublehole .

Construction

The number of individual parts a woodwind instrument influences in many ways the way the recorder in daily use on the one hand is uncomplicated to handle in terms of easy assembling and on the other hand for the safe transport.
This is a point that should not be underestimated, especially when transporting larger (and sometimes multiple) instruments.
{Experienced ensemble players can tell you a thing or two about this. Or ask members of recorder orchestras will agree.
Leaders of recorder choirs know how useful good and compact recorder cases are.

Packaging and accessories

The instrument is supplied as standard with: Bag
The following accessories included: Wiper rod, drying cloth, pivot grease, care instructions, fingering chart

Advice on the way to new recorders

Get expert advice!
The search for your recorder should never be influenced by "generally accepted" rules.
Get your own realizations after testing an instrument. Don't let "well-meaning" advice.
Do not let others stop you from trying a unkown recorder model.
Your taste is as individual as you are.
Therefore, only you can decide which instrument concept will personally inspire.
Our recommendation is therefore: Play also unknown concepts!
After that you will be delighted and can make a safe decision.

Information about instruments with keys

Not always can the tone holes be drilled in the places in the instrument that are pleasant to reach with the fingers. Especially with bass instruments sit for acoustic necessities tone holes adequate to reach. On these instruments, by the instrument maker keys are added, which make gripping clearly easier, or possible in the first place.
This allows it to be {pleasant|light|ergonomic|conspicuous|above average| good play even by players with smaller hands.
The instrument 2446KC -MOLL has the following flaps: