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 ...

Many of us know the recorder as the plastic pipe that gets handed out in elementary school music class. More closely resembling a toy than something a rock star would carry, it doesn’t have a ...

Contact this contributing writer at [email protected]. When people think about recorders, they remember their squeaky elementary school rehearsals. However, one local group is taking the ...

In fact, I adore it and am unmoved by the insults, dubbing it Satan’s flute or sneering at its uselessness. (One meme I saw online noted: “I’m so glad I played the recorder at school. I’ve lost count ...

Jonathan Thompson enlisted the help of three William King Memorial Flute Band members for his GCSE music exam.

ON February 27, 1668, after attending a performance of The Virgin Martyr by Philip Massinger, Samuel Pepys noted in his diary: “That which did please me beyond anything in the whole world was the wind ...