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 ...

RECORDERS, yeah. What are they good for? Absolutely nothing. At least that's what ran through the minds of almost every nine or ten-year-old student – including myself back in the day – being forced ...

LE ROY — Many an area elementary student got their first introduction to a musical instrument by playing a recorder. In its most basic form, the instrument is a tube with a mouthpiece at one end that ...

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Lou Reed have a lot in common. Aside from the fact that they’ve all helped cement rock and roll as a mainstream musical genre, ...

The windy whistles and birdlike burbling of the recorder, once a mainstay of classroom music lessons, appear to be slowly ...

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 ...

Evidently, it's a job the recorder is well suited for. "There's really no other instrument, other than maybe the keyboard, where it is so easy for a beginner to actually make a sound," says Michael ...