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3/5/2025 - 3/15/2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST

ARS offers our next Free Online Beginners' Course!  Learn to play the alto recorder in this 4-part introductory course starting on March 5^th, 2025. Professional recorder player and teacher Lisette Kielson will guide you in playing with beautiful tone, expressive articulation, and various rhythms. If you have never played recorder before, or if it has been years since you last played, this is the course for you! Build a solid foundation now and enjoy playing the recorder into the future! 

Dates:
Wednesday, March 5 at noon ET (11AM CT, 10AM MT, 9AM PT)
Saturday, March 8 at noon ET (11AM CT, 10AM MT, 9AM PT)
Wednesday, March 12 at noon ET (11AM CT, 10AM MT, 9AM PT)
Saturday, March 15 at noon ET (11AM CT, 10AM MT, 9AM PT)

This course will use the following method book which provides fingerings, exercises, and musical selections from the Renaissance and Baroque to complement each unit:
The Sweet Pipes Recorder Book: A method for adults and older beginners by Gerald Burakoff and William E. Hettrick. Alto, Book One. SP2318 (RED cover). 
 
Sweet Pipes Recorder Book (alto) can be purchased from one of our partners at these links:
Sweet Pipes at Von Huene or Sweet Pipes at Honeysuckle Music
 
Do you need to purchase an instrument? You cannot go wrong with a good plastic recorder—it can actually sound better than a poor wooden one! Aulos makes a very good plastic alto. Consider purchasing an Aulos “Haka” model A709B from one of our business partners:

Honeysuckle Music, St. Paul, MN: (651) 644-8545 www.honeysucklemusic.com/
Von Huene Workshop, Boston, MA: (617) 277-8690 www.vonhuene.com/
Lazar's Early Music, Carson City, NV: (866) 511-2981 www.lazarsearlymusic.com/
Recorderforge.com, Happy Valley, OR: (503) 210-1643 www.recorderforge.com/