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Man hilariously plays the recorder with a squeezy rubber chicken

Why do we learn to play the recorder at school?

Watch some gorgeous Handel at The Foundling Museum

This piece is called the ‘Nightmare Concerto’, and this amazing recorder quartet will show you why

Recorders: from the contrabass to the descant (that’s the one you played at school)

This is without doubt the biggest-sounding recorder we've ever heard

‘Many people don’t believe playing the recorder is something you can do seriously’

Watch this kid play an insanely difficult piece… on RECORDER

Baroque music: a beginner's guide