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 ...

When Jean Kuhn leads the St. Paul’s Recorder Group in concert, she makes sure she takes time to explain to the audience what the instrument is all about. “We find when we travel around that many ...

Pity the poor recorder, tortured in a thousand classrooms by reluctant schoolchildren. It’s still the most popular instrument learned in school, according to a survey this week, but is there any sound ...