As AusMusic month closes, it's a good opportunity to consider an instrument that has made quite a contribution to the musical life of Australia. The notorious recorder has been feared by parents and ...

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 ...

400 years ago, the recorder was so popular that people were writing concertos for it. Now, we associate it with primary school music lessons. We’re here to explain why... Long before the recorder was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...