The UX560 is also the slimmest recorder we tested—at 0.43 inch thick it can easily fit in a shirt or pants pocket. Although its audio quality isn’t as good as our main pick’s, the Olympus WS ...

sat in a control room turning a lyric sheet into a paper cone. He had an alto recorder in his lap. He inserted the cone’s narrow end into the tip of the instrument’s foot joint and blew a note.

But in the 1500s, sheet music was made available to wealthy ... tambourine and marimba, but also recorders. A recorder, unlike the rest of the woodwind family, doesn't possess a reed or require ...

She’s also a board member of the Chicago chapter of the American Recorder Society and plays in a recorder ensemble, called a consort. She argues that the recorder isn’t just an ideal ...