When Music Professor Ruth Griffioen suggested to Evan Callaway ‘12 that he spend his scholarship money building a six-foot-tall instrument that lost popularity after the 17th Century she was joking.

Pat Hanley’s hand-decorated Paetzold contrabass recorder stands watch as she switches to a viola de gamba during the Bloomsburg Early Music Workshop in 2024. The annual celebration of medieval, ...

Why settle for a recorder when you could wield a contrabass clarinet – or something you invented yourself? Meet the players drawn to the unusual In the 2022 film Alice, the titular heroine – a slave ...

When you think of a recorder, what instrument comes to mind? "Many people think of the recorder as this screechy little plastic soprano that they had in third-grade," says Zoe Tokar with a little ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Natasha Anderson with her contrabass recorder Live Proof invites small audiences into the studio for ...

WESTPORT -- Elise Jaeger's grandmother gave her a recorder in 1948, telling her to "make good use" of the instrument. Although it took a few decades, Jaeger, a Swiss immigrant, became impassioned ...