The Death of the Recorder
Twangs of the ukulele will be heard in Auckland next weekend, as hundreds of schoolchildren take part in the BNZ Ukulele Festival.
Around 900 children got together in the shape of their favourite instrument at Mt Smart Stadium to help promote the festival on Saturday.
Up to 5000 people are expected to turn out to this year’s event – now in its third year – where various local and international ukulele artists will perform. [...]
Event manager Richard Thorne said the festival was born out of an initiative where primary school children learn how to play the ukulele rather than the recorder.
When I was in primary school there were recorder orchestras and everyone had a recorder of every colour. In hindsight I probably would have gotten a headstart on my guitar playing if they let us learn the ukulele at primary school age.
Though you have to feel sorry for the recorder teachers as they slowly get squeezed out…
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