FALL RIVER — It's National Play-the-Recorder Day this Saturday, March 15. The Fall River Fipple Fluters will be celebrating the musical holiday at The Ignition Space, 44 Troy St., Fall River, from 2 ...

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 ...

Although many people might remember the recorder as just a simple instrument from their introductory music classes, it can nevertheless produce rich and varied melodies in the hands of a virtuoso like ...

Technically speaking, one of the easiest woodwind instruments to learn for a child is the recorder. There are a few reasons that schools decide to teach kids to play a recorder at a very young age.