The Scotsman

Classroom music lessons: Is the era of learning the recorder at school over? The instruments taking its place

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NPR

In praise of the humble recorder — a gateway instrument for millions of schoolchildren

Remember the recorder? It's that small plastic instrument — looks kind of like a flute or clarinet — that's often the first instrument children learn to play in school. Or, at least, they used to. But ...
The Independent

Fewer children than ever learning the recorder at school as instrument’s popularity wanes

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scmp.com

Dutch recorder player, who performed with the HK Philharmonic Orchestra, tells us why her instrument is badly misunderstood

You’ve probably, as a Hong Kong student, learned to play the recorder at some point in your school life – whether you wanted to or not. Lucie Horsch, however, says that the woodwind instrument has ...