My Very First Recorder

  I got my very first recorder in an unusual, as well as historical way. I've had this recorder for at least 35 years now, and I still use it. It is my favorite one out of all the recorders.
   Years ago, when we went grocery shopping, as we paid for our food, we would receive green stamps. We would lick these green stamps and place them inside a green stamp booklet. When the booklet was filled with green stamps, we would start another booklet. We would do this until we had enough green stamp books to take to the S & H Redemption Center, which carried all kinds of goodies from shovels to cookbooks as well as coffee pots and some musical instruments. That is how I got my first recorder. I had enough booklets filled up to trade in for the recorder.
   My dog enjoyed the recorder as well. His teeth marks are still embedded in the mouthpiece that I must have left out one time. Also, he would respond to music such as the type that was played on the recorder, by singing. Maybe it was really a dog's way of whining. The music obviously hurt his ears, but we enjoyed sharing music with the dog anyway.
   That was many years ago. Today, we don't have S & H Redemption Centers, but the memory of them is still lodged in our minds, at least to those of us who are old enough to remember what they were (and some of the things we 'bought' from them)!
   Today, we can buy recorders and music books through amazon.com. They have a pretty good selection of things and many times, you can get a really good deal through them. Take a look at the side of this page. You can see some selected items that relate to the recorder. You can probably get recorders through E-bay as well as Craig's list today, as well, although it the selection might not be great.

Recorder Lesson 3

Recorder Lesson 1

              

Recorder Class - June 12, 2012

We will begin to learn to play the recorder. If you are unfamiliar with a recorder, go to amazon.com and in their musical instrument section you can find a variety of recorders. Most are inexpensive, but the price can go much higher with a more elaborate instrument. If you have never played recorder before, I recommend that you start with a soprano recorder. The recorder is not hard to learn. It is helpful to know how to read notes, but I will cover some of the notes in class. Eventually, you will learn the notes of the C scale and how to play them on the recorder. We will start with one note, and will add new notes with each class. The classes are very short and are geared for children or even adults who want to learn how to play the recorder. I will also have videos on Youtube that I have found that will also be helpful in learning to play the recorder and to learn music appreciation.
   Happy Recording! Please leave questions in the place for comments. Thanks.