Reasons to Use Recorders*
- A melody instrument – with the ability to sustain tones. Many of the other Orff instruments don’t hold those half and whole notes.
- Helpful for those students who can’t match pitch or are uncoordinated with mallets.
- A real instrument with a long history and great repertoire
- Helpful for teachers to use – to save your voice and for male teachers to demonstrate in the students’ vocal range
- Portable and personal (everyone has one in their hands)
- Cheap – for those who want to buy them
- Washable – for those who want to borrow a class recorder. I put a piece of electrical tape on the class recorder with the student’s name. That recorder is used the whole year by that one student. At the end of the year, I take those recorders home and put in them in the top rack of the dishwasher.
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My favorite recorder
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2 thoughts on “Why use recorders?”
do your students have a problem hitting notes over middle finger d? Mine have found it difficult. My students have also had a hard time hitting low C. Also the intonation on those recorders drives me batty. I switched to Yamaha recorders and it’s fixed most of those problems.
Kimberly,
I don’t teach notes higher than high D, nor do I require students to learn low C. I feel like they have trouble enough with low D.
I like Yamaha also. Funny, the Peripole recorders don’t bother me. It’s when the students buy recorders at the dollar store that I can’t stand! 😉