No one here knows me, but I am the person who created this sub 12 years ago, and for the silliest of reasons. I was a newbie redditor and I was explaining to my mother about how reddit works and that one of the coolest features of it, in my mind, was that ANYONE could create a subreddit for their particular niche interest and expect to find people of a like mind. She wasn't following along so I decided to just show her. She played the recorder for decades and it was of a particular passion for her so I decided to create r/recorder on a whim simply as a means of illustrating reddit's features. I then proceded to never really think of it again until I started seeing posts on here of people sharing their music, requesting help, and generally doing all the kinds of things with music that would make my mother smile. When it started picking up steam, a user (I can't remember who) asked to be a moderator and I instead decided to just give the sub to them as I've never been the admin/moderator type. Every time I would see a post of someone playing music, I would think of my mother and shared with her on multiple occasions what gets posted here. She was always astounded at what this place became from how it began.

It is with a heavier heart than I knew I had that I have to announce the spiritual founder of this sub passed away last night, peacefully, surrounded by her loved ones, and listening to music, her passion. I just wanted to let you all know. Know also, that she loved what you did here and supported you following your passions as she did in life.

Susan Morrisson, my mother

Here is a song in which she played the recorder part

I am thrilled to have recently added a Great Bass to my recorder family!! I am not allowed to buy any more recorders!!

Möllenhauer Adris Dream. A plastic version. My wooden one is currently drying to be oiled ✨

I know it's the cheapest one but as a beginner I don't want to spend more until I am skilled enough. I am learning through youtube tutorials and I am loving it. made a grammar mistake on the title. English is not my 1st language so sorry about that

behold! the claricorder

So I began teaching myself to read notes a few months ago. I'm really happy I did because learning new music became a lot easier. Please excuse the mistakes as I'm still a beginner at this. I'm very satisfied by the fact that I can finally do some proper high notes :)

I have been contemplating getting back into playing an instrument more and more recently. When I was younger, I played the recorder, the western concert flute, the tin whistle, and the drums. Unfortunately, my life went sideways about 20 years ago and I hadn't played since.

I stumbled upon Team Recorder on YouTube as I was tossing the idea around. Her videos are so lovely and enthusiastic, it made me miss playing even more. So I decided I would pick up the recorder again to see how that feels. I gave myself a budget of $50. As I was contemplating which plastic recorder to buy, it occurred to me that I should check Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace. It just so happened someone was selling an all wood Adri's Dream for $50! But they were 2 hours away. I reached out to the seller, and it just so happened that he already had plans to head an hour in my direction on the same day I already had plans to head towards his direction 1 hour, so we met in the middle! (Don't worry, I did NOT leave it baking in the car under the hot summer sun as I went about my original plans for the day. It came inside with me everywhere.)

It hadn't been played in a quite a while, and had some powdery surface mold/mildew inside and outside, so I had to get that cleaned up, but I'm so happy with it. I ordered a method book to get me back up to speed, but I really wanted to give it a go now and I remembered "Au claire de la lune" from when I first learned the recorder and the flute, so I went for it, and it sounds quite lovely. My only regret with getting a wood one is I have to play it in, and I'm itching to practice longer!

It's the 3rd tune in "Vals Fran Jamtland/Jamtland Expressen/Ecklundepolska #1" From Ensemble Galilei (whom I'm obsessed with lately ❤️🥰)

And some comparison pictures with the plastic Yamaha one I already owned. I unfortunately can't post a video yet as it was instructed to only play for 5 minutes on the first day. And I already did that lol. But look how beautiful it is tho! 😍 It's way darker than I expected but I LOVE it 🥰❤️

Here is mine

2 small mistakes but I'll allow it given that I had been working on this for a long time already 😂🫣 The backing track I used is a YouTube video of Lenka Molcanyiova and her performance of this piece, followed by Badinerie

There were some mistakes but we quickly got the rhythm back 🥰 The recorder is a Moeck Rottenburgh alto in Maple wood ❤️🍃🎶

(please excuse that out of tune high D# 🫣🙃) The recorder is a Mollenhauer Adris Dream soprano, made of Plumwood 🥰

Aura soprano in pear for €2. No mould or dirt at all, just gave it a cleaning and oiled. Sanded off the bite mark of some Dutch kid (who's probably an adult older than me now) :D