Great video! Yes, it's sad how most people never hear good recorder playing and judge it to be a toy because of its short introduction in schools. At the same time, that wide exposure presents a valuable opportunity if we can help improve it! This is one of my goals.

Every point you've made is spot on and it's great that a person with your credentials is addressing this issue. A few things that might also be considered: 1) The recorder is not a particularly resonant instrument. Unlike, say, the entire strings family that are all built around resonating chambers, or the brass family with their bells, or percussion with drums or tubes, the recorder produces its sound through wood or resin. Almost no harmonics or overtones are discernible. A very pure sound but perhaps not as satisfying played solo in a practice room. 2) The recorder isn't usually heard in its historical setting. It has come down to us through the centuries having sounded in the courts of kings and queens, the stone walled town squares of our ancestors and other places where its somewhat dry tone would have come alive echoing off the walls. (Really, don't you just love walking into a high ceilinged church hearing your own footsteps clicking off the walls knowing what those acoustics are going to do for your instrument?) Totally changes the sound. Would that it always be heard that way! 3) Recorders playing harmonzed parts instead of in massive unison sound amazing!!! Thanks for all your great vids!

Nach einem intensiven Blockflötenstudium verbrachte ich die letzten 24 Jahre vor meiner Pension an einer Musikschule im Elsass. Meine ganze Arbeit war darauf ausgerichtet, die Blockflöte als hochstehendes Instrument unter die Menschen zu bringen, was tatsächlich durch schlechte Ehrfahrung in der Schule VÖLLIG in Vergessenheit geraten war! Somit gibt es doch noch Hochburgen des Blockflötenspiels im Elsass und die alten Traditionen sind nicht ganz in Vergessenheit geraten! Wir Blockflötisten leisten Pionierarbeit und Deine Arbeit ist poppig und avangadistisch, BRAVO à toi! Sabine 😊

I love it. God thought me to play it ❤❤❤😊😊😊

Maybe classroom instruction places too much emphasis on learning simplified classical pieces or familiar children's or folk music. I wonder if students could improvise. They could learn some of the easier notes to play and then the instructor lets them make up a tune with those notes. Personally, my interest in learning the recorder increased when I heard some performers playing different styles of music and giving the voice of the recorder a different kind of voice. I've hear the baroque recorder played to sound like an indigenous flute (like a Native American flute). That made me regard the recorder as a much more expressive instrument.

Hey guys, in this video I explain to you why there are so many negative prejudices against the recorder. What is your opinion about this instrument? Have you had any experience with it?

What I found most people who hate recorders🪈 can't play for shit in their own instruments!!!!!and they think they are musicians. Recorder is beautiful and extremely versatile and has a very very old history and repertoire and medieval music jazz blues anything you throw at it can do it justice it can shred and look deadly like an electric guitar 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

My mom never really liked it, but generally when was back in school most found it ok, plus Scotland we used to Loud noisy Instruments like Bag Pipes.

Ich bin total einverstanden mit dem 3. Punkt. In Frankreich auch werden so viele Kinder verpflichtet, den Instrument zu lernen. Es sorgt für schreckliche erinnerungen obwohl die Flöte ist eigentlich total geil. Du spielst sehr gut und ich liebe deine Videos !

Hab deinen Channel durch zufall gefunden. Direkt mal abonniert, möglicherweise werde ich meine Blockflötenskills etwas aufpolieren können.😅 Ich möchte in naher Zukunft auch Videos produzieren (folk covers). Vielleicht kann man in Zukunft auch mal was zusammen aufnehmen. 🙂

Thank you for your much needed video! In the whole history of education, never has been so much written that is wrong, than instructions on playing the recorder. For those who want to hear how far you can go on the recorder, here is Dorothee Oberlinger playing a Telemann concerto. Dorothee is a professor at the Salzburg Mozarteum. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibx9ZJWe1dm3m2w.html

hi, as a solo instrument, how can a recorder used as a.musical instrument for praise and worship like guitar to stir up the atmosphere ?❤

Beginners sound terrible on any instrument.

From what I heard from uncle van Eyck, Daphne is very beautiful.. Even Bach agreed.. Now stop dissing recorders and buy one, even haters need one, beit just to prove a point.. but it's the best 10 bucks you'll ever spend for a real instrument..