10 REASONS THE RECORDER IS AMAZING! | Team Recorder

10 reasons the recorder is an amazing instrument!
A lot of you write to me saying that your friends/family/teachers/loved ones... well, make fun of you for playing the recorder. So I'm going to share 10 reasons I LOVE this instrument, to hopefully give it a bit of the respect it deserves!
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Some performances I love:
Lucie Horsch playing a Vivaldi Concerto: • Vivaldi - Fluitconcert...
Dorothee Oberlinger playing Marais (French baroque): • Dorothee Oberlinger - ...
Juho Myllylä playing Jeff Lorber (fusion): • Juho Myllylä | Haciend...
Seldom Sene playing the Goldberg Variations: • J.S. Bach: Goldberg Va...
Tali Rubinstein playing jaaaaaaazz: • Amazing Recorder playi...
Emily Askew playing 'Emma's reel' (folk): • Emma's Reel
Jorge Isaac playing Paetzold recorder and cajon duo: • Jorge Isaac (Contrabas...
Plenum playing contemporary music on Paetzold recorders: • PLENUM @ "Musik im Ra...
My band Jerboah (with recorders) yaaaaaa: • Jerboah's FKA
Got more to add? Let me know and I'll add to the list!
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Carlos Nuñez en la Nuit Celtique playing An Dro: • Carlos Nuñez
Faun Federkleid: • FAUN - Federkleid (Off...
FAUN "Tanz mit mir" (Duett mit Santiano):
• FAUN - Tanz mit mir (D...
mittelalter musik / medieval music: • mittelalter musik / me...
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a 442 garklein by Küng
a 442 soprano by Mollenhauer Edition
a resin 442 alto by Vincent Bernolin.
a 442 tenor by Yamaha
a 442 Rafi tenor by Francesco Li Virghiu
a 415 bass by Yamaha
a 442 great bass in C by Paetzold
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[@erichhall5078]

Reason # 11it's one of the most mobile instruments, have you ever tried taking your piano on a bicycle.

[@gillchatfield3231]

Have you ever tried taking a contrabass on a bike 🚲?

[@christophertsiliacos8958]

Erich Hall, that's way I also play the harmonica. It's not only among the most mobile of instruments, but it's even more compact than the sopranino recorder. 😉

[@mechasartre3694]

I really wish I could lol

[@ziomatthewmusic4205]

Or tried to move countries?

[@ziomatthewmusic4205]

I play piano but I am also a poor TEFL teacher so move a lot and have no money to keep buying even the cheapest of crappy keyboards. I bought a recorder for €10 and am having almost as much fun as on my €1000 Yamaha P90.

[@kaylastarr3822]

When I was around eleven right up to the age of 14 I LOVED the recorder so much and I played it every day, it felt like an extension of myself. Playing it made me feel happy and then when I was in grade 7 my music teacher said it wasn't a real instrument and he didn't think me being able to play it well was anything worth being proud of. I was heartbroken. In went from playing it every day to barely playing it at all and feeling embarrassed about the fact that I even played it. I play the flute now, but I still really love the recorder, so it makes me so happy to watch videos like this. Go team recorder!

[@courier007]

Teachers. Spawn of the devil? Or angels in spectacles? Discuss. :) (I had an art teacher whose cutting remark lives on still 55 years later. Spawn)

[@gr8a]

Boo on your grade 7 music teacher!! Great that you play the flute, but you can always come home to the recorder. Bart Spanhove (Flanders Recorder Quartet) said that recorder is rarely taught in public school (especially the U.S.) by recorder specialists, but by those who expect to have the children move on to what the teachers consider "real" instruments for band and such. Also, in typical U.S. universities, there are few (if any) specialized recorder programs. A person who wants to become an accomplished recorder player has to seek out music schools that have early music programs.

[@kaylastarr3822]

@@courier007 I think teachers have the potential to be such great positive influencers who inspire us, and there are those who truly do, but too often they just end up crushing our dreams:(

[@kaylastarr3822]

@@gr8a I think the way the recorder is treated in schools half the time is ridiculous! The more I research about the recorder the more fascinated I become. I do think I would quite like to come back to the recorder one day and learn it properly. Perhaps I could prove my old teacher wrong!

[@jannieschluter9670]

I heard that your teacher is burning in hell for this.

[@WoodwindsRock26]

People be like: The recorder is not a real instrument. The same people also be like: Stairway to Heaven is the best song ever!

[@ElephantBill]

The slow introduction to Led Zeplin’s Stairway to Heaven included recorders, before the entry of the electronic instruments. They sound real enough to me. And the association of recorders with miraculous and other-worldly events has a very long history in literature and music. See en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairway_to_Heaven

[@WoodwindsRock26]

@@ElephantBill That's my point, though. I chalk it up to ignorance. People are so biased and think of the recorder as that elementary school instrument that can never actually sound good, so when they hear them like in Stairway to Heaven, they assume they're just hearing some kind of flute instead.

[@ElephantBill]

WoodwindsRock There are many other instances of recorders used in popular music, amongst them the Beatles and Rolling Stones, amd even Jimi Hendrix.

[@kunstderfugue]

Or Octavarium... Is that a recorder?

[@fandeBuzz]

What's wrong with having Stairway to Heaven as your favorite song ?

[@jallenecs]

When I told my church friends that I had started playing the recorder, they laughed. Really, they laughed, they thought it was a joke. Joke's on them, though, because I'm enjoying myself.

[@its_mi.]

Good for you!

[@jannieschluter9670]

Don't judge lest ye be judged... ;)

[@HAngeli]

it's beautiful, delightful. There are amazing pieces for this instrument.

[@kishascape]

@@HAngeli You don't even have to play pieces. You can also play or transpose regular non-classical music onto it like pop or rock just fine.

[@daniarceo8456]

"IF YOU CAN PLAY ONE, YOU CAN PLAY THEM ALL." YES. QUOTE.

[@roseterada7958]

Not necessarily. The true Renaissance recorders use different fingerings than the recorders seen most, which require Baroque fingerings. Also different models may have different needs for playing in tune with others.

[@dsg.alexandrevichinheskiga488]

To say that the recorder is a children's instrument is the same as saying that drawing on paper or riding a bicycle is a child's thing! Thanks for the video!🥰

[@Team_Recorder]

Exactly!! Or counting, or writing letters, or learning to bake, or digging in the garden.. or pretty much anything!

[@helikesmehaha]

Just bought My New Recorder coz of Sarah Encouraged and Inspired Me! Thanks!😇

[@pearspeedruns]

What did you get?

[@helikesmehaha]

@@pearspeedruns Just a Baroque Recorder

[@pearspeedruns]

Apollo 1705 Soprano, alto, tenor?

[@louiseguy8253]

I think the misunderstanding of how difficult - or, rather, how easy - the instrument is to play arises from the ease of getting a sound out of it at the start - blow and something happens that is recognisable. However, to play it in a melodic and tuneful way requires hours of hard work. This is compounded by learners equating playing fast with good playing. The real difficulty is to play slowly and in tune. Thank you for this video, Sarah. I suspect it may be quite a revelation to a lot of people. I enjoyed the start of "Daphne" which is one of the pieces I will be showing off during the Making Music day on the 21st of June in Central Library, Edinburgh.

[@RhanaSilith]

the recorder is easy to learn but incredibly hard to master ;)

[@heinrichmunz6775]

10 good reasons - but here's one that beats them all: I play the recorder because I love it - and I don't give a f... about what other people think about it!

[@YuhimeScorpio]

Sarah, I have to tell you that because of you I bought my recorder last week. I used to "play" the recorder in primary school, if you count one song played by 30 kids at the same time that had no idea what to do. I've been binge watching your videos for days now and I decided to give it a try. I had no idea that someone can do so much with such a simple instrument. Thank you so much for an inspiration, I love to practice so far, though I'm sure my neighbours will hate it until I start sounding like playing actual music. Thank you again!

[@trychydts]

It is very accessible. I learned to play the soprano recorder as a child, and managed to proceed easily with an instructor. As an adult, I am learning the piano, but lately, every now and then I take out my newly-bought alto recorder if I need to relax a bit. Learning the piano, even on a solid beginner level requires a lot of effort; you can make your initial strides for the recorder way easier, and was very viable to get back to it after ~30 years. You can buy it in decent quality relatively cheaply, it is a low-maintenance and easy-to-carry instrument.

[@marcelo90z]

Bought a Yamaha YRA-402b Alto recorder because of Sarah. I always wanted some "underdog" instrument, some instrument that nobody expects to be so good, I thought getting some exotic ones could do the thing but the recorder was there all along. After a bunch of concertos showing the beautiful sounds the recorder can do, I started to learn on the spot. Another reason I wanted so bad to start it is because the Recorder _is the prime example of something that's easy to play but hard to master_ . Anyone can take a recorder and make sounds and play basic music, but it takes practice in getting to sound like Vivaldi's concertos or even learn some weird techniques like Circular Breathing. Now I am doing exercises with a Yamaha method book for Alto recorders, and I hope to be a better player soon. But only time and practice will tell

[@allanjmcpherson]

I'm a general woodwind teacher, and I can say with certainty that if you practice regularly and with purpose you will steadily get better. I wish you the best on your journey.

[@annelogged]

Yes! Thank you for your recorder advocacy, Sarah! 💪

[@davidbenefiel9289]

11. When a wind player can or prefers not to maintain their embouchure, the recorder is a natural transition to keep playing music with friends, recorder societies, ensembles or in recorder orchestras. Many of the excellent recorder players I have met formerly played the flute, oboe, clarinet or a brass instrument. No more reeds!

[@thebigloc1]

Thank you for this. Just forwarded it to many people. Love the recorder, part of my heart and soul. When I play one of my recorders I feel like it is a extension of myself.

[@Michajeru]

Well done for presenting such a strong case for the recorder! Frankly, I think the recorder is one of the most beautiful and versatile musical instruments, and what's more it is easy to carry around.

[@kishascape]

I too love taking my recorder everywhere with my in my bag. It's a very durable yamaha 300 series ABS tenor but sounds very good and is durable, still I would like to get it a hard case so I don't have to worry about bumping my bag too much because I like to take care of it.

[@DavidShepheard]

4:16 Sarah: I'm going to tell the world why recorders are amazing Fly: PHOTOBOMB TIME!

[@christophertsiliacos8958]

👏👍 Reason #11 why the recorder is amazing - It's also a passport to music appreciation and other wind instruments. I, for one, went on to the Bb clarinet, alto saxophone, fife flute, concert flute, pan flute and tin whistle among the treble clef wind instruments. Notice I didn't say 'advanced' to other wind instruments. As Sarah has said, “The recorder is played at a high standard by thousands of people all over the world to just a high level as any other instrument.” 😉 🎼 ♫

[@hilkotimmer1712]

You did it! I played recorder for 11 years, but quit under pressure to transition. Since then I play trumpet and piano and I love the trumpet very much, it isn't friend, but always missed the recorder, I just put that feeling away. Watching your video on made me pick it up again :)

[@SwedeEad]

"When I was nought but sweet sixteen...." (complete that song yourself) I was in a band at school. We played a few Beatles songs. We wanted to do 'You've got to hide your love away' but who would play the recorder break? None of us played the recorder. I volunteered. I was smitten! That small incident lead me to discover and fall in love with traditional folk music, Baroque and Renaissance music Galician pipe music e.g. Carlos Nunez and all sorts of other musical alleyways. I still love the recorder and noodle around with it (I'm definitely not a professional). One day I will make one (or more). I'm sweet sixty three now. Thanks KZbin for sending me here! Great channel Sarah! Thank you too!

[@raniagoldmusic]

Wow!!! I've never heard about reason No. 8 and it's my favourite. You hear recorder in film scores and some times flute sounds were meant for recorders but weren't so easy to find... "just because you learnt something as a child doesn't mean it's childish" best line in the video! 😁

[@pearspeedruns]

After I started learning recorder it was astounding how much recorder playing in film I had thought was flute. Harry Potter is full of it!

[@MsBettyRubble]

Number 8 is so cool!! I'm going to try it out.

[@paulilele]

Ik zeg vaak tegen mensen dat het redelijk makkelijk aan te leren is, omdat je er makkelijker geluid uit krijgt, maar de blokfluit mooi kunnen bespelen is ècht een vak apart! Bedankt voor deze leuke video! :)

[@RecorderArcade]

The element of danger. 😍 I love all the different possibilities of timbre you can get utilizing altered and special effect techniques. I use these effects often in my own work to differentiate sounds between woodwind, brass, and strings in my arrangements.

[@karadixon3402]

My students learn to play the recorder starting in Grade 3. When the recorder is played well with a beautiful, even tone, it can sound amazing. Thank you for your videos!

[@joobyzat1221]

You MUST teach how to do that glissando! :)

[@rudianyreis770]

I will play this video for my 4th graders. They are doing really well learning how to play recorder in our general music class, and I am sure this will make them even more motivated about this instrument!

[@DerekHarkness]

The biggest reason I like the recorder is that it is cheap. When I was a child, I really wanted to learn music, however, my parents didn't want to pay for instruments and lessons. They didn't want to spend the money required for me to learn to play properly. Every Christmas I asked for a trumpet but never got one. That changed in secondary school since the school required us to buy recorders. My parents got me a second-hand plastic recorder and that became my first instrument. Within a few months of learning the recorder, I advanced on to the tuba and the electric organ (learning by using my school's instruments during lunch break). Eventually, I bought a cheap second-hand guitar with my pocket money and taught myself to play that too. Fast forward 30 years, and I now play the guitar, piano, ukulele, and harmonica. My daughter's school, last year, started teaching the students the recorder and we had to buy one for my daughter. I insisted that we bought two recorders - one for my daughter and one for me. So I still play the recorder almost every day. The recorder is often denounced because most people experience it as a cheap plastic toy. However, it is precisely because it can be cheaply made out of plastic that it is so wonderful. Any parent that can afford to buy a recorded and open up musical potential for their child.

[@migread4865]

Just started learning and I suck, play it so horrible but the more I play the more I love it. Your videos are helping me a lot. Thank you.

[@ProdigalGeek]

Came here after watching your response to TwoSetViolin! Fan for life and subscribed.

[@rouaneb6664]

i did recorder lessons all through my childhood and got terribly bullied for it, seeing stuff like this always makes me happy. i really want to pick it back up some day, once i have the confidence

[@JasminaArcheryova]

I found this channel thanks to Two set and I'm so gratelful that there is someone spreading the glory of this awsome instrument! Unfortunately now I don't have much time for practice or just playing for fun, but I really enjoyed 10 years I could learn how to play it... and I got weird looks almost everytime when I explained, that staying with recorder and not switching to flute or some other "better" musical instrument was really my choice :D So, time to grab my alto and try if after all these years I can still play some pieces which I used to play on competitions :)

[@SavasKara]

What an amazing attitude, so positive and talented.Thank you so much for make us know the recorders better.I find my elementary school recorder and now its standing on my desk so that i can practise on some my free times.This is just because of you.

[@karennichols5001]

Another great and informative video. Thanks Sarah!!

[@bluehealerdogcat9169]

Difficult but rewarding. That's what I needed to hear. That is why I fell in love with the recorder. And the fipple and ocarina. And I played guitar for almost 30 odd years. Thank you Sarah this video made my day.

[@user-kn6rn2fp5j]

when people ask me what can i play i'll answer only melodica and recorder because in my school there's a melodica and recorder lesson. At first i thought we can't do anything special with recorder and then i found your channel and find out many other things i can do with recorder. Thanks you for showing me that recorder is not only for education at school

[@hilarymajor3983]

One of the things I love is surprising people with the recorder. When I take out my plastic Yamaha and they expect hot cross buns, the look on their faces when they get Handels Water Music is priceless.

[@jrivasphoto]

OMG! What a nice video!!! I have been chasing my daughter (young child) with my violin and my guitar and my orchestra flute with no results. Finally school started some recorder classes and she is into music!!! now I’m buying a Tenor recorder for myself, and you just inspired me even more. I did not know of its potential. Thanks.

[@BarbnGrill]

That duel recorder playing sounded amazing

[@RoseWilson]

I love your energy and passion. ❤️ Keep being you and doing what you love.. 👏🤗

[@Racosz]

Such a beautiful instrument. I am guitar player, but I've been obsessed with recorders since 2018. I currently own three plastic Yamaha recoders (soprano, alto and tenor) and I must say is a very fascinating instrument (a very tricky one as well). From a guitarist perspective, one of the most challenging things about recorders (and woodwind instruments in general) is the breathing and articulation technique. You must be more aware about breathing than ever. Obviously you are always breathing, no matter what instrument you play, but with the recorders and woodwinds, breathing is the essence of the instrument and your sound. About my level, I can play some simple melodies, some scales and arpeggios (two first octaves for the time being) in soprano and alto recorders. Finger stretching in the tenor recorder is pretty hard to me. My main study source is the Sweet Pipes series. Excellent video and channel as usual. Greetings from Bogotá, Colombia. P.S: Have you ever tried an instrument called "friscaletto" or "friscalettu"?. It's a flute from Southern Italy very common in traditional folk repertoire (eg, tarantella). You should give it a try.

[@NickiMacB]

Great video Sarah- I am a big fan of your channel! I get very tired of my family teasing me about playing the recorder. I think the problem is that most people’s experience of the recorder is from whole class lessons in primary school played on nasty cheap plastic things almost always taught by a well meaning class teacher who can’t bloody well play it( beyond Frere Jacque or Hot Cross Buns...) I was watching a video of some children playing on a school blog last week and 12 out of the 14 children on the video had their right hand at the top! This was a lesson from a so called music teacher! Ahhhgggghhhhh!!!!!!!!! Like most people I started to learn the recorder in primary school. I got to about ten and the music teacher at my primary school called my parents in and said” Now it’s time for her to learn a proper instrument- here’s a clarinet.” So I started down that path, went to grade VIII and then studied music at university but the recorder was always my first love and I played it ( usually in secret when no one was in) whenever I could. I actually really resent that no one suggested me actually learning the recorder properly as I feel I could have been really good whereas my clarinet playing was really average probably because I didn’t like it much. I trained as a primary school teacher and ended up as a music co-ordinator in a junior school. I promoted the recorder as much as I could. Teachers at local music festivals used to ask me what my secret was in managing to get my young players to make such a lovely sound en-masse ( when theirs sounded like a bag of strangled cats!) no secret- simple fact is I can play it! Would you expect a beginner violinist to teach a bunch of 7 year olds? I don’t think so! Such a sad indictment of music education in the UK that children do not have high quality music tuition( unless parents can pay for it.) I came back to playing the recorder more myself in the last few years ( At the ripe old age of 51) and I joined my local SRP. Your videos have been invaluable in helping to improve my technique! I now have a growing collection of recorders which I play on a daily basis- just love it! Thankyou❤️

[@therealzilch]

I can only agree. I will play two recorders at once in a concert tonight- wish me luck.

[@kinsongeorge8573]

Reason #12 No electric power required , an anytime, anywhere instrument. Reason #13 Portable and light weight, you may carry it in your laptop bag Reason # 14 Very less maintenance required Reason # 15 No sophistication at all....very simple...a 9 year old or a 90 year old can easily play a recorder Reason # 16 Low cost, suitable for broke musicians...like me...:)... :) ..You have wonderful presentation skills dear Sarah..Keep on playing..You are an inspiring and cheerful, pretty lady Wishes from Kerala, India

[@rodneysmart9774]

I think I've surprised a few people with jazz and rock stuff. Recorder is a terrific camping companion. Love your psych level, love your videos. Do you sing as well? You have a nice voice.

[@Bugsy-gc6ii]

I’ve just fallen in love with the most beautiful, professional recorder player I’ve ever known. XXX

[@annar3068]

Thank you! I'm loving your videos. I started watching because I'm trying to decide between learning the clarinet or the recorder as my 2nd instrument (guitar was #1), and I'm absolutely loving the recorders sounds. I didn't even know there were different kinds to make different ranges of sounds! Thank you! ♥

[@sidethehead]

Awesome video and links! Perfect vid to show to my 3rd grade recorder class....

[@alangordon2831]

Fabulous. I've always played and loved the recorder. You're great.

[@bluehealerdogcat9169]

I believe in you and the recorder. That's why I gave up the guitar. The recorder is beautiful and harder to master. But so worth it. It's very cool instrument. Thank you Sarah for the encouragement. Please keep making more videos. Ta :)!!!

[@barbarahanawalt4920]

I’m enjoying learning the recorder. It took me by surprise. I’ve been doing a lot of drawing but in the last few years, drawing has started to be hard for my eyes. I found some recorders in my house left over from goodness knows when, so I tried them. Wow! What a cheerful sound! The soprano recorder is a perfect size for my aging hands (I’m definitely one of your older viewers) and reading music is not as hard on my eyes as drawing. I also found out that as the years have gone by, my breathing has become more shallow. Recorder playing is helping me breathe better! So for the senior aged recorder student I’m getting happiness, a social experience (I’m planning to join group recorder lessons in my town), and deeper breathing, as well as mental stimulation. So many amazing benefits.

[@Team_Recorder]

Wonderful, welcome to the recorder! ❤️

[@pokerpotpipe2117]

Thx a lot for your valuable education about such a wonderful recorders.

[@5688gamble]

I love my recorders,classical, baroque, rock, whatever, I taught myself Steve Vais "For The Love of God" the lead guitar part, for something unusual, love how I can bend the notes up and down, imitating his use of the tremolo bar (which really is meant for vibrato, always found that weird!) or plain bends, or where he creates weird special effects by hitting the bar to create a fluttering effect, I can't play it on guitar (even though it's my main instrument) but on recorder it sounds so good!

[@GuirriGandul]

Sarah a wonderful episode and I reckon you hit a philosophical high, to be expected no doubt from wholesome intentions! Naming some of the profound and fundamental concepts young children are taught as a premise to conclude that 'Not everything one learns as a child is childish' was very elegant and convincing. By the way are you aware of the Greek Trivium and Quadrivium systems of education, I never tire of telling people! Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric.........Trivium. Arithmetic (pure number), Geometry (number in space), Music (number in time), Astronomy (number in space and time)........Quadrivium.

[@manonc7537]

Thank you for this vidéo so much people make fun of recorder player because they say it is not a real instrument 😤😤but recorder history is so rich the repertoire contain so many kind of music and the Sound is really nice. Love from france

[@eldionevruzi]

You are a really amazing person! Thank you for these videos.

[@AndrewHuang4music]

I know recorder is an amazing instrument already from Bach (Brandenburg Concerto) but I just like how passionate you explain!

[@samuel_piper23]

4:12 Gentle Giant, a very underrated prog rock band, all the members of a band played multiple instruments. In their shows they would have selections where they all played recorder.

[@seancregomusic]

The recorder unit in school encouraged my kid to start clarinet "early" (for here), and he's already joining orchestras because he can't wait for school band and he's afraid of being bored (in school band). Also, his friends see my tenor recorder and get so excited that very few around here think of the recorder as anything less than a "real" instrument.

[@lostross]

im a soon-to-be music major and i started on the recorder i took it everywhere i went and i practiced almost daily explains a lot

[@jessicacaballero3220]

You are brilliant! Thank you for sharing!

[@richellmcknight446]

So glad I found you, you're awesome!😁💖 You have opened my eyes past all of the cliches about the recorder, I never realised it was so much more than a child's plastic toy, lol!😂💖 I'm a vocalist that plays piano/ guitar & wanted to learn a wind instrument for the Renaissance Festival music I'm working on( Blackmore's Night, Heather Dale, etc), and found your instructional videos😉😁💖 Now I need to determine what size and tuning I need!😁💖

[@boulyprod]

Thank you Sarah !!! It was difficult when i was young to said "I'm a recorder player" but now it's better. And i think you contribute of that :-) Now i'm proud to play recorder :-)

[@boulyprod]

And i have a youtube channel grace of you (sorry for my bad english) : (a little pub ) kzbin.info/door/eX83-aKcHZ4DicZiSrkpYQ

[@user-JM1967]

I like to play alto recorder sometimes a week. That's nice and stress relief.

[@mattfleming2287]

Ok,you said it -let’s see recorder metal!

[@nonman3634]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3acaY1_ZcllmK8 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIXXgmdmoqZ7ppY etc.

[@idraote]

Problem is people like to have an opinion even if they haven't looked in depth into the matter: they remember the recorder as the plastic monstruosity producing piercing nightmares in the hands of a child attending a music education class and they remember that because they haven't looked any further. Plus, at a very basic level, the recorder is possibly the cheapest instrument of them all: you can buy a plastic toy for 5 EUR or even less and this probably reinforces the idea of it not being a real istrument. And when you said "just because you learnt something as a child doesn't mean it's childish" triggered my heartfelt applause.

[@rolandeschain]

I think there are lot of misconceptions and prejudices around the practice of music in general, and deffinetly the recorder is one of the most underrated instrument; I played soprano recorder as a child, now I play guitar, but since I've come across this channel, my interest in recorder is back, because Sarah demonstrates what really you can achieve with this beautifull instrument, so I bought an Alto recorder, and start practicing, and I just want to thank you for open this new world for me, congratulations for your greats videos, and cheers from México.

[@baroquer]

2:10 WHAAAAAT was that?!? 😳 Never tried before to play a glissando of that sort on my Puppy (*recorder) :D

[@daviddewilde3310]

Yeah, love the recorder! Great video Sarah!

[@vwen8308]

her video always make me want to start playing again

[@peterlustig8021]

2:10 STOP IT STOP IT :'D 5:16 IT HURTS (i always have to laugh at that interaction because it tickles my brain and distracts me from playing) btw more reasons are: -you can get into playing decent quality for cheap (thomann flutes are what i use and for starters/occasional players they are fantastic) -it makes learning note-reading simpler (just by the amount of holes you can't really mess up what hole is what) -it's super easy to hide away due to it's size (the "adult" instruments like guitars and pianos are kinda... bulky) -the possibilities for pleasurable music are huge (and same goes with the possibilities to annoy the heck out of someone)

[@ThatBish380]

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[@alancantor9437]

One of my favourite things about the recorder -- which is related to your point about its superficial simplicity -- is that recorders have ZERO moving parts (at least the smaller models). Modern woodwind instruments are covered in mechanical bits. During the early 1700s, the flute, oboe, and clarinet were mechanically simpler than they are today, with only a few keys. Over the centuries, these woodwinds gained keys in response to changing musical sensibilities, bigger concert halls, or whatever. As an amateur recorder player, it's fun for me to explore the outer limits of an instrument that manages to be versatile without reliance on mechanical contrivances. Despite the lack of moving parts, the recorder has a range of two octaves and a sixth (plus or minus one or two notes). (However, I would be very tempted to try a modern recorder festooned with keys, like the Eagle or the Helder. )

[@keegimujaltold1454]

This is actually the reason why I like the recorder and other simple-design instruments (I am learning recorder and dizi now; I also like Irish flute, duduk, xiao). I like when the instruments have only real holes, and when you really have full control over it, without any complex mechanisms.

[@frannbug]

I'm pretty sure that recorder has done better than any other woodwind instrument over the last ten years of BBC Young Musician of the Year, too! Thanks, Sarah, for more ammo!

[@christophertsiliacos8958]

5:14 Wow! 😲 Those two notes (difference tones) sounded like they came from the theme “Schindler’s List.” 😢 Was that by accident or by design? One can never be too sure when it comes to Sarah and her creativity. 😉

[@janebaracho5610]

Oi Sarah! Sou inscrita no seu canal, toco flauta doce à 5 anos, sou uma amadora ainda, mas estou trabalhando para me tornar uma boa profissional. Sou apaixonada pelas suas aulas, acho você incrível. Amo flauta doce e tenho vontade de ter uma de madeira qualquer que seja, por isso resolvi fazer uma sugestão pra você, que tal fazer um sorteio de 2 flauta entre seus inscritos, a primeira você dava para mim por ter tido a idéia 🤗, a outra iria pro sorteio. Parabéns pela profissional que você é! Fique com Deus e sob a proteção dEle! 🙏🙏🙏

[@soslothful]

Hi Sarah - Have you done, or would you consider doing videos on these two topics: 1. Structing effective practice time. 2. Your general story. Why the recorder as to any other instrument? How did you, born in England, come to be married to an American and living in the Netherlands?

[@LeenaLittleElf]

Sarah has actually answered some of you questions in her older videos. :) Check her whole channel. There is a video on "How to practise" and also a video called "How I became a recorder player" in which she explains why she chose the recorder and why she lives in the Netherlands.

[@soslothful]

@@LeenaLittleElfHummm. I'll have to recheck those older videos. It is often difficult to keep track of what questions were posted to which videos. The Paganini Method seems to be the way to with the question of practice.

[@allanjmcpherson]

To people who think the recorder is an "easy" instrument, I would say that rather it is an approachable instrument, especially for kids. It's size, low back pressure and lack of intimidating key work do make it very easy to start playing. But to get good at it takes just as much work as any instrument. (And the lack of keys actually makes a lot of things harder. We added keys to flutes and clarinets specifically to make certain things easier.)

[@TKZprod]

Also the price

[@אריאטדגי]

You're really funny, and cute also ! Just wanted a fine video that lists the pluses of the recorder cause I want to start learning a blowing instrument and I think the recorder is an excellent way to start, then this video popped up.. 5:23

[@mariadavis8745]

A great point you make about the recorder being referred to as a child’s instrument. So English, Maths and Science are childish subjects because they started learning them at 4 years old. 😀😀😀😀😀 Most learning of instruments start when we”re children - so all instruments are childish. 😀😀😀😀

[@soslothful]

I'd add that the idea of a recorder being a child's instrument is because many people's only experience is with very cheap, poorly made recorders which produce bad sound.

[@BIZEB]

I'll be honest, the name's probably its worst enemy (besides everybody's 4th grade experience). In English it doesn't sound like an instrument's name, or at least not a cool one. Some other languages actually call it flute (well, at type of flute), and I guess that helps with its reputation, even after the horrors of childhood "music" lessons. Great job introducing us to some of its coolest features. Thank you!

[@zvenzzon00]

Thanks for mentioning Joanna Newsom. Her music is great! Really really special and deep. Have been waiting for a new album for years!

[@ricardo.mazeto]

You're amazing! And so the recorder!

[@german.ml93]

I find something especially good about the recorder: you cannot bite a reed to get the high register or to modify the pitch of any note. There's no option: YOU HAVE TO USE YOUR AIR. I'm a professional bassoonist and I deal every day with the tendency of biting. However, after a few days playing my recorders seriously, I played the bassoon again and I noticed that I controlled EVERYTHING much better: breathing, articulation, tuning, high register, airflow in general, playing with decision... Professional recorder player or not, I think that the recorder is a therapeutic instrument for any wind player!

[@lucytorregrosa2896]

Sarah for an adult in the 50-60 age range which kind of plastic recorder woukd you suggest. Thanks for your answer and I really like your videos!

[@orthohawk1026]

Regarding repertoire there is a series of concerti by Haydn for lira organizzata, an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy. The first time I heard any of these was #1 and on the recording I had , it was played on two recorders (although I didn't realize till many years later that there were two and not just one). After much memorizing the melody and even more practicing, I managed to learn the solo part(s) by ear. However, as i mentioned, I didn't realize until many years later when I heard a flute and oboe version that I realized there were actually TWO soloists and the "part" I learned was a mix of the the two. Talk about fun! Anyway, I actually found a score of the concerto at my university music school library so (don't tell anyone) I checked it out and made a copy of it for myself, and learned the parts separately, ;). It's funny; if I'd seen the score first, I'd have been terrified to even try to learn it because of how complicated it looked!

[@littlephoenix4037]

That fly at 4:16 though...

[@ЛекПор]

I bet King Henry did not have some crappy plastic recorders in his collection. Henry knew the deal.

[@jeandelacroix6178]

I believe Sarah Jeffery is Andres Segovia of recorder.

[@herpyderpy2869]

"If you can play one you can play all" The string family: Wanna bet?

[@silvie.r272]

What's the name of the piece that you play at 3:21 ?? I know the melody but I can't remember where it's from...

[@freeofmefree]

Sounds like the theme from the game of thrones show.

[@SpencerRaybourne]

Hi Sarah, I'm trying to figure out the difference between the descant and treble recorder especially since I am trying to find music to play from the ABRSM levels. Have played the recorder for years but honestly can't figure this out.

[@GodOfReality]

For #9, juggling was like that too. Juggling in olden times was a noble art, for kings and grand warriors. This goes as far back (at least) as Ancient Greece. There is a tombstone from ancient Greece upon which is written "I am the first man to juggle glass balls." Now it's mocked as a circus act, it makes me sad.

[@captebbtide]

I'm proud to own the full family or range of recorders, whatever and whenever the type I am in the mood for.

[@elvisodemejero9647]

Very fantastic. Thanks

[@acyutanandadas1326]

I played Aire on the G string and Pavanne por l'enfant defaunt on a recorder in a jazz club w piano bass and drums-- No ''stuff'', no syncopation --as written-----blew 'em away

[@rolandparks4318]

Try playing recorder like harmonica. Blues Travelers HOOK. For me, this vide about the recorder, is probably the best U tube video, all things considered, that I have run into. I love playing recorder . (and consequently also love playing the harm).

[@ziomatthewmusic4205]

My reasons Number 1: I can play metallica for €10 Only ond note at a time...as a pianist this is so great You can literally just pick it up. Sometimes I just practice fingerings whilst watching something or studying. With piano you have to think right practice time and go and sit at the piano Travelling. My piano is being played by my cousins and I have had to borrow keyboards or just not play the last 6 years that I have been in europe, re buying, renting borrowing every time I move. This I I can put in my backpack.

[@davidmolloy126]

Hiya Sarah, Thanks very much for the fab' video, and I was interested that you mentioned circular breathing. Could you possibly do a post on this sometime please? I've seen other channels do it, but most can't explain it well. Thank you.x

[@Team_Recorder]

I have done one already- it was my very first tutorial, in fact!

[@davidmolloy126]

@@Team_Recorder Thanks Sarah.x

[@ОксанаМоскаленко-ы9н]

You forgot to put in the description one or two of Michala Petri's perfomances ;)

[@millennial8441]

Reason #12 - Alto recorder, particularly Bressan's model, is the most suitable woodwind instrument for playing French baroque music. I love it. I have a Bressan one and it has a very deep and warm low register, incredibly strong, velveted and sonorous low notes. There are great French baroque composers whose composed (or wrote about) for recorder. The chief French baroque historical recorder method writers are, in chronological order. Jean-Pierre Freillon-Poncein, Etiènne Loulié and Jacques-Martin Hotteterre. All these three authors wrote important historical recorder methods covering important issues about perfomance of French baroque music for recorder. Freillon-Poncein's method (Paris, 1700) includes pieces of music such the beautiful "Passacaille a Deux Parties Pour La Flute" (Passacaglia in Two Parts for the Recorder, including a bass, which I am playing this piece and I guarantee: it is a great French piece of music writen for alto recorder). He also wrote a collection of "préludes" for alto recorder in major and minor modes (my prefer is the G mInor one). Etiénne Loulié wrote, in the beginning of the 18th C., a recorder tutor intended for recorder teachers at the time (incredible writing about recorder teaching and playing which I highly recommend its reading). Finally, we have Jacques-Martin Hotteterre and his also important tutor for baroque flute, recorder and oboe. Please, forgive my English: I am not a native speaker.

[@IrvingCh]

Love it. :)