The Recorder Player's Handbook

"The Recorder Player's Handbook" is a comprehensive survey of the instrument, its history and its music and deals extensively with the following subjects : - the instrument : its design, structure and mechanics with detailed information on historical models and materials ; advice on the choice and care of the instrument - playing the recorder : advice on breathing, tone production, fingering and aticulation ; practice and performance - recorder music and its performance : a survey of recorder music from the early Middle Ages to Baroque period and with a valuable consideration of the recorder in the twentieth century