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ON February 27, 1668, after attending a performance of The Virgin Martyr by Philip Massinger, Samuel Pepys noted in his diary: “That which did please me beyond anything in the whole world was the wind ...
It is high time that the truth about the recorder was faced. I hate to be a balloon-buster, but someone at last has to be honest about this musical pip-squeak, whose importance is bloated out of all ...
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 ...