The recorder is like the guitar: just because generations of talentless kids inflicted them on their parents doesn’t mean they’re bad instruments incapable of producing good music. It’s just that most people have also heard good guitar and know what it can sound like, while very few have heard good recorder.
The next cheapest melodic instrument would be a 6 hole flute, but that takes a bit of practice just to make a noise. Recorders make noise for anyone that can breath. It’s the wood sticks of instruments, anyone can use them, most will learn some tiny amount about music, and a very tiny number will learn actual musical skills.
The recorder is like the guitar: just because generations of talentless kids inflicted them on their parents doesn’t mean they’re bad instruments incapable of producing good music. It’s just that most people have also heard good guitar and know what it can sound like, while very few have heard good recorder.
I’m not sure who actually is/was inflicting recorders onto whom here.
It was inflicted on both groups by the school district.
The worst part is that schools use the recorders with “German” fingerings which make a C major scale dead easy, but anything else is a nightmare.
So it’s next to useless for actually learning to play recorder, too.
But EXTREMELY useful for learning C flute
Probably Big Recorder. They’ve got their hands in lots of industries.
The next cheapest melodic instrument would be a 6 hole flute, but that takes a bit of practice just to make a noise. Recorders make noise for anyone that can breath. It’s the wood sticks of instruments, anyone can use them, most will learn some tiny amount about music, and a very tiny number will learn actual musical skills.