brlarini

Hello everyone!
I'd like to ask for help in discovering what wind instrument begins playing at 1:09 of the following music:



(Sorry I couldn't make it embedded or clickable... I needed 15 posts or more)

Is that a tin whistle, an ocarina or something else?
Thank you!

Janszoon

You can actually embed YouTube. I edited your post accordingly.

Anyway, to me the instrument sounds like a recorder of some kind, or a synthesizer version of one at least.

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VEGANGELICA

I agree with Janszoon that the wind instrument sounds like a recorder. I started playing soprano and tenor recorder two months ago and so the sound is familiar. It's pretty, isn't it? The recorder doesn't get as much respect as it should.

I suspect your wind instrument in question, brlarini, is a soprano recorder. You can compare its sound to that of the soprano recorder played in this video...

Brian Bonsor - "Seranata" for Soprano Recorder and Piano
Jim Phypers -- Recorder player


JIM PHYPERS PLAYS "SERANATA" FOR SOPRANO RECORDER--SHARES HIS MUSIC BACKGROUND - YouTube

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Burning Down

To me it sounds more like a fife than a recorder, but both are plausible options.

VEGANGELICA

A fife usually sounds breathier to me than the wind instrument in the song, so that I definitely would say the instrument used was a soprano recorder.

Here's what Wikipedia said about the music composed for the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronocles series:

"The soundtrack to Crystal Chronicles was primarily composed by Kumi Tanioka, while music programmer and arranger Hidenori Iwasaki provided one additional piece of music. Tanioka has described the musical style for the soundtrack as being based on 'ancient instruments'. The soundtrack makes extensive use of many medieval and Renaissance musical instruments such as the recorder, the crumhorn and the lute, creating a distinctively rustic feel." Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You can compare the video I posted above with the following, which briefly shows someone playing a renaissance fife at the very end, demonstrating what I mean about the breathy sound of fifes:

Renaissance Fife - breathy!

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You win...

Telemann's Fantasie Nr. 3 for recorder!!!!!!
played by the once famous Frans Brüggen

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brlarini

Wow, thank you guys, I wasn't expecting such detailed answers.
Anyway, I've been intrested in learning to play some wind instrument due to ease of learning (or so they say...), and that instrument sounded really nice to me.
The Crystal Chronicles series have a really nice set of music which make use of wind instruments (even though they may be synthesized).





So, thank you again for your help, I'll take some time to try the recorder.

VEGANGELICA

I'm glad the answers in this thread were helpful to you, brlarini. (I don't think the recorder in Crystal Chronicles is synthesized. It sounds exactly like a real recorder sounds. And with enough practice, you should sound just like that!)

Yes, a recorder is easy to learn, because it is basically a glorified whistle.

But one important thing I want to tell you is that when you get a recorder, make sure to get one that has three pieces (so that you can tune it, if necessary, by separating the joints slightly to achieve a lower pitch)...and I recommend Baroque fingering.

Secondly, when you see a recorder fingering chart and you see that the thumb hole appears to be half covered, actually you will need to have the thumb hole covered almost 9/10th of the way (with the open crescent nearest your mouth) to cause the recorder to leap up an octave.

Here's an example of an inexpensive but decent plastic soprano recorder:

Yamaha YRS-302B Soprano Recorder - 3 pieces, $15.27 (US Dollars)
4 1/2 stars (28 reviews)

Amazon.com: Yamaha YRS-302B Soprano Recorder - Baroque 3 Pc.: Musical Instruments

For comparison, a high-end recorder would be a 3-piece wooden Moeck. I have and use a 2-piece wooden Moeck, a "school" type that my parents gave to me when I was five! So, it is probably worth...$1. But it still plays nicely.

More about Moeck recorders:

Moeck Recorders - Courtly Music Unlimited

If you want to buy a very nice recorder, I would recommend the following:

Moeck 4200 Rottenburgh soprano recorder, Baroque fingering, 3-piece, natural maple. ~ $235



^ If you have money to spare, I'd get this one! But the plastic Yamaha 3-piece recorder would probably sound almost as nice. I have a plastic Yamaha tenor recorder and like its tone very much.

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brlarini

Glad I came here just before getting another model (from Yamaha though, Yrs24). I found a shop in my country selling the YRS-302B at a reasonable price for our standards (R$67,80 ). and I think I'll stick with that one, as I am new to this.
Thank you for your tips VEGANGELICA, since I'll try to learn by myself they may come in handy. Thanks to internet to for the large amount of material about it .