Yamaha YRA-27 III Alto Recorder

Value for money

Good value for money to learn to play the alto. Doesn't block easily and if correctly played the low notes respond good. Also the high notes (F) respond VERY easily, which can be a disadvantage when you decide to move on with a wooden recorder, which demands much more technique to play them. When I decided to play baroque fingering I converted the recorder myself, which went well. Sometimes I still play it.

I hoped it will have all the qualities of my perfect Yamaha soprano recorder with german fingering from 1984... I dont know what is it, but the sound of this alto is more rough than lovely and always well tuning old soprano...

+/- german fingering

Otherwise the recorder is good, but the lower F is not clean. I can hear a slight vibration when I play it. It doesn't bother me, I'm happy with my new instrument.