As AusMusic month closes, it's a good opportunity to consider an instrument that has made quite a contribution to the musical life of Australia. The notorious recorder has been feared by parents and ...

It's a sound that many who grew up in North America may remember from their childhood: a chorus of tinny-sounding plastic recorders playing songs like "Hot Cross Buns" in a slow, pained manner. That's ...

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 ...

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A recorder revival is taking place on Britain’s roads, and it’s all thanks to one man named Miguel Lawrence. For most people, the recorder is an instrument you might have played in school, before ...

Recorder player and record producer Laoise O’Brien has decided to become a crusader on behalf of her instrument. She probably couldn’t have chosen a better time to take up the cause. The day I spoke ...

For any Australian primary school child, there are two certainties in life: Witnessing an accident on a set of monkey bars, and being handed a recorder. For many kids, the wind instrument was either ...

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. A ...

Some of you may recall that a couple of weeks ago I wrote about my daughter learning to play the recorder, a musical instrument I subsequently disparaged, pooh-poohed even, on the grounds it sounds ...

RASCOE: If you somehow managed to escape attending one of these concerts, the recorder is a woodwind music instrument. It's got a thumb hole and seven finger holes. And when it's played by a gaggle of ...