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 ...

After being gifted a recorder in Australia, Lizzo posted an impressive video playing the childhood instrument — and we’ve never heard it sound this good.

The notorious recorder has been feared by parents and called an "instrument of torture". But what has this instrument given us that we might not realise?

A good instrument from a reputable company will make a big difference to sound and tuning. Professional recorder players who now teach in schools are aiming to improve these two areas.

It's typically the first instrument music pupils learn to play but experts fear its popularity is on the slide. Have other instruments lost popularity before?

A British music education organization reports that use of recorders are declining in the classroom. We wonder: Why were they there to start with? And why is "Hot Cross Buns" such a banger?

But Ms Scriven says she would never trade her recorder for another instrument. "The sound world, the warmth of the wood, what you can do with it, the recorder's got something special," she said.

That's when a French-born instrument-maker named Arnold Dolmetsch sparked a recorder revival. He began promoting it as an instrument for teaching music in schools. Dolmetsch and Carl Orff, the ...

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. A ...