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 ...

The internet is obsessed with a Labrador retriever with some special talents as he showed off his newest trick: playing the recorder. Brewski the Lab lives with his owner, Chance Crawford, in ...

Although many people might remember the recorder as just a simple instrument from their introductory music classes, it can nevertheless produce rich and varied melodies in the hands of a virtuoso like ...

“They found out that it is a very difficult instrument to start with, because it sounds so ugly in the first period,” he says. “You blow into a recorder and it comes out …” He makes an unpleasant, ...

FALL RIVER — It's National Play-the-Recorder Day this Saturday, March 15. The Fall River Fipple Fluters will be celebrating the musical holiday at The Ignition Space, 44 Troy St., Fall River, from 2 ...

Ezra Somnitz, 2, couldn't control his laughter. — -- Learning to play the recorder is hard for any toddler. Still, when Ezra Somnitz, who has been deaf since birth, learned to play the wind ...

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