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FREE Online Recorder Class for Beginners - Learn to Play Alto Recorder with Lawrence Zukof
3/23/2023 - 4/2/2023
8:00 PM - 8:45 PM EST

Event Description
ARS is offering Free Online 4-part Beginners’ Course for alto recorder!
 
The recorder is a fantastic instrument for people who want the social experience of playing with others, wish to play a variety of repertoire, and can learn to do so at a basic level in a relatively short time. Whether you’ve never played recorder before, or if it has been eons ago since you have played, can or cannot read music, this is the course for you!
 
Professional recorder player and teacher Lawrence (Larry) Zukof will lead you through this course and help you build a solid foundation and help you learn the fundamentals of making a beautiful sound from the start: blowing, hand/finger position, tonguing, basics of note reading and rhythms.
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Dates:
Thursday, March 23, 8 p.m. ET (7 p.m. CT, 6 p.m. MT, 5 p.m. PT)
Sunday, March 26, 8 p.m. ET (7 p.m. CT, 6 p.m. MT, 5 p.m. PT)
Thursday, March 30, 8 p.m. ET (7 p.m. CT, 6 p.m. MT, 5 p.m. PT)
Sunday, April 2, 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. 

For this course, you will need the Sweet Pipes Recorder Book and an alto recorder. Consider purchasing these from one of our business partners, and please allow ample time for mail delivery! If you have purchased the Sweet Pipes Recorder book online but are concerned that you may not receive it in time for your first class, we can provide you with a "temporary" copy for download. Instructions will be in your emailed registration confirmation notice.

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/Shop-by-size/F-Alto/?order=name-asc&p=1&properties=151fe63ecadb49aebf3ed9923ead2718