Although many people might remember the recorder as just a simple instrument from their introductory music classes, it can nevertheless produce rich and varied melodies in the hands of a virtuoso like ...

CHICAGO — Many 80’s and 90’s kids grew up playing the recorder, but it’s at risk of going extinct. New research shows less than 16% of kids are learning to play the instrument. They’re more interested ...

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — March is Music In Our Schools Month. To celebrate, Loving Living Local invited Nathan Mays, a music ...

The recorder used to be an instrument people wanted to hear. As a 1946 article in The Atlantic explained, it gets mentioned lovingly in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Milton’s Paradise Lost. One ...

The idea of listening to some off-key chords may not seem ideal. But, contrary to popular belief, most parents actually want their kids to learn a musical instrument. A new study conducted by OnePoll ...

Only around one in six children now learns the recorder after a decline in its popularity over the past decade, a new report suggests. However, the paper by the ABRSM, the exam board of the Royal ...