When you think of a recorder, what instrument comes to mind? "Many people think of the recorder as this screechy little plastic soprano that they had in third-grade," says Zoe Tokar with a little ...

It's a sound that many who grew up in North America may remember from their childhood: a chorus of tinny-sounding plastic recorders playing songs like "Hot Cross Buns" in a slow, pained manner. That's ...

With the proliferation of Early Music ensembles and recordings over the past several decades, it may be difficult to put oneself in the mindset of what it used to be like to play the recorder - or how ...