Seven contributors from four different countries write on topics such as the recorder and its music through the centuries, the recorder as orchestral instrument, the professional recorder player ...

The recorder was very popular around the 18th century, when composers like Antonio Vivaldi and Johann Christian Bach were alive. Vivaldi even wrote concertos specifically to be performed by one. There ...

This particular woodwind instrument is best known as the ... subculture full of people who record covers of popular songs played on the recorder. The results are fascinating and sometimes hilarious.