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 ...

Many of us know the recorder as the plastic pipe that gets handed out in elementary school music class. More closely resembling a toy than something a rock star would carry, it doesn’t have a ...

Only around one in six children now learns the recorder after a decline in its popularity over the past decade, a new report suggests. However, the paper by the ABRSM, the exam board of the Royal ...