Many kids take a toot on a recorder in school music class. Now Hiroshi Yokoyama from the Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan and his colleagues are revealing how the popular wind instrument ...

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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The humble recorder is possibly the most despised of all musical instruments, but the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra wants its reputation as "a squeaky, screechy instrument" to change. The Tasmanian ...

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 ...

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 ...