Paintings and manuscript illuminations of the period show that much secular performance included both a wide variety of bells, drums, and other percussion instruments and instruments with drones bagpipes, fiddles, double recorders, hurdy-gurdies.
The Croatian oboelike sopila is played in ensembles that practice complex group improvisation; on the double-recorder dvojnice one player can produce two simultaneous melodies.
Sony also announced replacements for its old recorders that double the recording capacity, so if you were eying one, go for the new one instead.
The full complement of 13 wind players (oboists and bassoonists often doubling on recorders), or most of it, played in these works, along with the percussionist Ben Harms (on drums, tambourine and bells) and the continuo player Charles Weaver (on guitar or theorbo).
He also speculated that wrist-based MP3 players might also double as voice recorders in the near future.
Her tools often boiled down to a pen that doubled as a recorder, and a determined line of inquiry that ended up putting her life in danger.
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Sony, Philips, Iomega and Memorex are among the manufacturers that sell double-layer DVD recorders, and discs used with the new recorders can hold about 8.5 gigabytes of data or four hours of video in the MPEG-2 format.
