As well as making beautiful sounds, it’s an accessible instrument in that it is low-cost, in comparison to other woodwind instruments, and it’s light and easy to carry. He said: “The recorder is increasingly overlooked by students, and yet it has a rich history and incredible versatility. You need these instruments to create the inspiration for music, and without that, there is less excitement for it and to learn music,” he said.Ĭhris Orton, a recorder tutor and chair of the ERTA, is leading the fight against the instrument’s extinction. “Like removing any plant or animal from an ecosystem, removing the recorder has a huge ripple effect beyond just the instrument. Redmond also said that this problem extended “beyond the recorder itself” and was a reflection of the future of music. “It’s one of the most accessible instruments, and the recorder is such a beautiful and refined instrument and there’s life way beyond the few lessons in primary schools.” Whereas the instruments that are more socially or orchestral based there has been a decline. ![]() “The ones which have really flourished are the ones spent more time alone playing. More pupils were taking up the piano or other solitary instruments, said Redmond. He added: “We did see a shortage of some instruments where maybe children were on the cusp of something and then Covid happened, and they didn’t join ensembles and they couldn’t progress.” “The idea of playing an instrument where you were projecting aerosols was frowned upon.” ![]() “Covid had a significant part in its decline,” Redmond said. He blamed the pandemic for the decrease in the number of children taking up the recorder and other wind instruments in schools. Tom Redmond, the joint principal of Chetham’s school of music in Manchester, said only three of its pupils practised the recorder, compared with 15 a decade ago. The ERTA argues that if the recorder was good enough for the Beatles, it has a place in contemporary music today. Video content is supported (both embedded in courses and as a stand-alone microcontent).So imperilled is the instrument’s future that the European Recorder Teachers Association is trying to spearhead its renaissance so it does not go the way of the lute. ![]()
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