These three exercises were born from the lack in recorder literature of material to tackle the typical finger-technical problems of our instrument. My intention has been to concentrate as many specific fingering difficulties as possibe in each exercise, without bothering too much about being musically interesting, since I felt that technique can have a fascination of its own. Thus you can consider every single measure or group of measures equally useful as an exercise by itself. Played in their entirety, though, they are valuable as a test for prolonged concentration and mere physical condition. 1977 Kees Boeke