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11/10/2024 - 11/20/2024
8:00 PM EST

ARS is offering a Free Online 4-part Beginners’ Course for alto recorder!
 
The recorder is a fantastic instrument for people who, in a relatively short time of regular practice, can learn to play a variety of repertoire, and enjoy the powerful social experience of playing with others, Whether you’ve never played recorder or another instrument before, or if it has been a longtime since you have played, can or cannot read music, this is the course for you! Professional recorder player and teacher Lawrence (Larry) Zukof will guide you on how to get off to a good start and hopefully, entice you to pursue further study and gain enjoyment from playing. 
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Dates:
Sunday, November 10th at 8 p.m. ET (7 p.m. CT, 6 p.m. MT, 5 p.m. PT)
Thursday, November 14th at 8 p.m. ET (7 p.m. CT, 6 p.m. MT, 5 p.m. PT)
Sunday, November 17th at 8 p.m. ET (7 p.m. CT, 6 p.m. MT, 5 p.m. PT)
Wednesday, November 20th at 8 p.m. ET (7 p.m. CT, 6 p.m. MT, 5 p.m. PT)
 

Class materials will be provided except for the recorder and the required Sweet Pipes Recorder Book Alto Book 1 for older beginners.  This course will use the following method book which provides excellent methodical exercises while providing simple tunes to satisfy the soul! The Sweet Pipes Recorder Book: A method for adults and older beginners by Gerald Burakoff and William E. Hettrick. Alto, Book One. SP02318. (This book has a red cover!) This book can be purchased from Von Huene Workshop HERE and Honeysuckle Music HERE.

Do you need to purchase an alto recorder? You cannot go wrong with the best plastic recorders on the market. Yamaha, Aulos, and Zen-On all make fine sounding and in-tune plastic recorders. Consider purchasing an instrument from one of our business partners (the names in quotes below cite the original 18th c. recorder makers from which the plastic models are modeled):

Von Huene Workshop (The Early Music Shop of New England)
Yamaha "Rottenburgh" alto recorder 
https://www.vonhuene.com/p-115-yamaha-rottenburgh-plastic-alto.aspx
Aulos "Haka" alto recorder 
https://www.vonhuene.com/p-126-aulos-plastic-haka-alto.aspx
Zen-on "Bressan" alto recorder 
https://www.vonhuene.com/p-6331-zen-on-g1-a-440-bressan-alto-recorder.aspx
Sweet Pipes Recorder Book 
https://www.vonhuene.com/p-3689-burakoff-gerald-hettrick-sweet-pipes-recorder-book-book-1-adults-and-older-beginners.aspx

Honeysuckle Music
Alto recorders 
https://honeysucklemusic.com/show3.php?cat=Alto
Sweet Pipes Recorder Book 
https://honeysucklemusic.com/showf.php?item=5289

Lazar's Early Music
Yamaha "Rottenburgh" alto recorder 
https://lazarsearlymusic.com/collections/recorders/products/yamaha-abs-resin-recorder-alto?variant=29092748591186

Recorderforge.com
Alto recorders
https://recorderforge.com/Recorders/F-alto-treble-recorders/