Yahoo

Learning about the recorder with Mountain Song Community School

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — March is Music In Our Schools Month. To celebrate, Loving Living Local invited Nathan Mays, a music teacher from Mountain Song Community School, and Cora, a third grade student, ...

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

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

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

Only one in six children are now learning the recorder at school, new research has found, marking a significant drop in its popularity over the past ten years. A report by the Associated Board of the ...
NPR

Recorders, the woodwind music instruments, are on the decline in British classrooms

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 ...