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7/12/2020 - 7/22/2020

This class has filled more quickly than we expected!  Click HERE to register for our new Beginner's class with Greta Haug-Hryciw, on soprano recorder. We hope to have more classes available in the near future.

ARS introduces a Free Online Beginners’ Course! If you have never played recorder before, or if it has been eons ago since you have played, this is the course for you! Build a solid foundation for learning recorder through the American Recorder Society’s 4-part beginners’ course for alto recorder starting on July 12th, 2020. Professional recorder player and teacher Jennifer Carpenter will lead you through this course and help you build good recorder technique from the start. All materials will be provided except for the recorder.

Dates:
Sunday, July 12, 8 p.m. EDT (7 p.m. CDT, 6 p.m. MDT, 5 p.m. PDT)
Wednesday, July 15, 8 p.m. EDT (7 p.m. CDT, 6 p.m. MDT, 5 p.m. PDT)
Sunday, July 19, 8 p.m. EDT (7 p.m. CDT, 6 p.m. MDT, 5 p.m. PDT)
Wednesday, July 22, 8 p.m. EDT (7 p.m. CDT, 6 p.m. MDT, 5 p.m. PDT)

Do you need to purchase an alto recorder? You cannot go wrong with a good plastic recorder. Yamaha, Aulos, and Zen-On all make good plastic recorders. Consider purchasing an instrument from one of our business partners:
Von Huene Workshop (The Early Music Shop of New England): (617) 277-8690
Lazar’s Early Music: (770) 366-8596

Yamaha “Rottenburgh” plastic alto: https://www.vonhuene.com/p-115-yamaha-rottenburgh-plastic-alto.aspx or http://lazarsearlymusic.com/Yamaha-Recorders/yamaha_recorders.htm#PlasticRecorders

Aulos “Haka” plastic alto: https://www.vonhuene.com/p-126-aulos-plastic-haka-alto.aspx

Zen-On “Bresson plastic alto: https://www.vonhuene.com/p-126-aulos-plastic-haka-alto.aspx