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 articulation; 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.
