Reddit mentions: The best books about recorders

Besides the Eagle, I am also pining for one of these. But that is not my price range yet either.

In the realm of cheapest are Smart and Woodnote. The Smart soprano I have is bad enough I am not going to bother trying an alto, but I am planning on getting a Woodnote alto. At $20 on ebay there is little risk, and they are alleged to be exact Yamaha clones.

The yamaha 300 series alto is my current regular recorder and I like it. Aulos makes better plastic altos, the A509 and A709. I don't have them, but reviews all seem good enough to try them, and my Aulos sopranino is nice. Then ALSO, there is the Zen-on Bressan alto. A little more expensive for a plastic, but allegedly worth it. Considering the price difference, I will probably try all of those before going up the 1.5 orders of magnitude price difference to a modern wood recorder.

tl;dr: Woodnote for cheap, or Yamaha 300, Aulos A509 or A709, or Zen-on.

Re books: The Recorder Book

I fully endorse this point. When I teach children, at the beginning of the lessons, we play the 'point and shoot' game. Balancing the descant (soprano) on the lower lip and right thumb only, they point the bell of the instrument to any part of the room and 'shoot'. With a bit of balancing practice, they can hit the ceiling. The point is that the need to develop a posture that allows for complete freedom of all the moving fingers. The use of a thumb rest on bigger instruments is often the result of bad posture and an underdeveloped sense of balance.

However, if the intention is only to play for fun, without the wish to develop a proper technique, then thumb rests are perfectly acceptable. It's partly the result of many people not realising that there is a recognised technique for recorder playing. Walter van Hauwe's books are good starts.

touché

https://www.amazon.com/Dexterity-Exercises-Dances-Recorders-Soprano/dp/0769219020/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=95+dexterity+exercises&qid=1562859648&s=gateway&sr=8-1

I imagine this could be adapted nicely. It's not explicitly for tin whistle but it has some interesting exercises in different scales plus it's cheap. It definitely helped my recorder skills.

Maybe it's time to get her a recorder?

(Which to be honest, I kinda want that for myself. LOL )

https://www.amazon.com/Frozen-Recorder-Pack-Songbook-Instrument/dp/1495013057/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479408597&sr=8-1&keywords=frozen+recorder

nothing will be worse than that!!!!! :D and no batteries, so they cannot disable it either :)

Does your SD like frozen? i've attached a link to a Frozen songbook that comes with a recorder. how do you feel about kazoos?

https://www.amazon.com/Frozen-Recorder-Pack-Songbook-Instrument/dp/1495013057/ref=asc_df_1495013057/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312094773753&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17055615448465344000&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9028309&hvtargid=aud-829758849484:pla-457752077263&psc=1

She might be too young for this but it still promises to be very annoying. Frozen Recorder Set

Frozen play along recorder set!!!

Edit: Found it

It sounds like The Melody Book, it's popular around my area, although there's no rainbow on the cover
http://www.amazon.com/The-Melody-Book-Selections-Autoharp/dp/0132819171

Better this one

For the girl, consider this, it’s a learn how to play Flute with songs from Frozen.


Frozen - Recorder Fun!: Pack with Songbook and Instrument https://www.amazon.com/dp/1495013057/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fzo-BbF6N2GX0

Buy it from Amazon instead? They ship to Malaysia.

Haven't read all the comments to see if this has been mentioned, but I'm definitely using this on my least favorite sister-in-law:


https://www.amazon.com/Frozen-Recorder-Pack-Songbook-Instrument/dp/1495013057

Speaking of recorders and kids: welcome to hell

I know someone mentioned a recorder earlier, but did they mention THIS!?!?

get this!!

Do they assume you're starting from scratch, or do some of them presume you need retraining from a descant?

edit: think I might pick up this one as the reviews are quite favourable for exactly this situation:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Descant-Treble-Pt-Enjoy-recorder/dp/0946535019

Amazon link

If you ever get a niece...

It says it's from 2015, maybe you saw the older copies being sold by resellers. This should be the lastest one, right?

https://www.amazon.com/Charlton-Method-Recorder-Andrew/dp/1908904798/ref=pd_cp_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=3P228YSEHD7CRZ5ERT4D

My sister threatened to get my son a drum set. I told her I would get 3 of this for her girls if she did. My son never got a drum set.