The small plastic instrument has long been the go-to instrument in elementary schools. But it is capable of so much more than ...

A British music education organization reports that use of recorders are declining in the classroom. We wonder: Why were they there to start with? And why is "Hot Cross Buns" such a banger?

Others from earlier times such as crumhorns, cornetti and shawms disappeared from most stages for centuries.In one corner of ...