Remember the recorder? It's that small plastic instrument — looks kind of like a flute or clarinet — that's often the first instrument children learn to play in school. Or, at least, they used to. But ...

Carl Dolmetsch is credited with inspiring a recorder revival in schools all across the UK thanks to his creation of the ...

Technically speaking, one of the easiest woodwind instruments to learn for a child is the recorder. There are a few reasons that schools decide to teach kids to play a recorder at a very young age.

RASCOE: If you somehow managed to escape attending one of these concerts, the recorder is a woodwind music instrument. It's got a thumb hole and seven finger holes. And when it's played by a gaggle of ...