sharing recorders
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Anonymous
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My eldest daughter is 11 and my younger is 9. The older one hardly needs to practice, nor even want to play it at all and has all her belts done already so practically probably won't need it apart from maybe the school concert (Don't know yet whether it is going to happen) but just guessing because it is on her book list. But she says she never plays it this one whole month as they are onto ukelele...
The younger is now starting full on recorder class. We didn't want to buy another and run the risk of having two going in the house at the same time so elected to skip the school purchase and have them share. Our school's music teacher flipped on hearing that my younger is sharing and using her older sister's recorder and says each kid should have their personal one, how its not good to have spit inside the recorder even if it is used by another siblings, teethmarks on it left by her sister is disgusting and spoiling the kids love for music, a good gift to keep for mental stress etc etc bla bla... I know its $10 maybe to get another but what's the big deal of sharing them. The kids mess around their own stuff and they don't ever mind sharing and eating each other's icecream! We can also wash them and it not like its being used outside of the family. WWYD? Ignore the teacher? I can't believe she gave these reasons for us not to share one. |
Anonymous
| Omg where do you go that has this much recorder, and why haven't you stabbed your eardrums yet |
Anonymous
| Nothing spoils a kid's love of music faster than a recorder. |
Anonymous
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I agree nothing spoils the love of music more than a recorder! I shared my recorder with my siblings. It just came naturally and I was in my sisters room in the summer and it was just in my mouth playing a tune. Then it automatically became mine as she didn’t want it.
Just crossed out her name and put mine and my younger sister crossed out mine one day when i no longer cared about the recorder and put hers when it was her turn. I don’t think we even bothered whether it had my sisters spit in it though thinking back, it probably was gross as I don’t think any of us ever washed it despite being told to do so. Ok, maybe once but that’s the most I ever did. Haha. Probably grossing the adults more than the kids. So it’s BS that the kids will Be affected. More likely the music teacher is more grossed out more than anything |
Anonymous
| Right to jail |
Anonymous
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My kid used my old one! The school gave everyone free ones for my younger kid. They regularly used each others-though they never overlapped with having lessons on it in school. In your scenario they would have shared for sure.
One of the worst days of elementary school was when my daughter figured out for herself how to play Baby Shark on the recorder. |
Anonymous
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Run the risk of having two in the house?
Just get both the same sex so they don’t reproduce and there is no risk. |
Anonymous
| Get another recorder. You've spent more time dealing with this drama than just fixing it. It's not worth it. |
Anonymous
+1 Jeez. |
Anonymous
haha. They somehow get adopted. I agree this is only a $10 problem that can get fixed but I think OPs point is why force a parent to get yet another. Less plastic, less headache for some families is the point. I have 3 girls, we bought only one, but the school gave my two girls each one. I can't remember if they were new either because I think one had a name of another kid that either pulled out of school or came for only a while. But somehow a silent adoption program is in place or they have reproductive skills. We have maybe 7 now in our house now, left maybe by friends bringing theirs during sleep overs, or my kids accidentally bringing their friend's. Who knows. Its goes into this drawer in the basement but somehow it gets found by other kids that visit our house. (church groups, nieces, neighbors visiting.) Its blown into, brought out to the garden, thrown around by the boys like swords, played by other girls to the tune of fortnight on the recorder with spit that drips out the other end etc and then it goes back in the drawer. I don't wash them and somehow other parents think its fine for their kids to take someone else's recorder, blow into it when they come over but yet on DCUM and schools, it is like such a big deal to even share with a sibling! So we let them be. gross as it is, i have never seen any kid get sick so if it entertains them and their parents. I just let it be. I can live with the shrill for the day. |
Anonymous
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on the topic of sharing : Just happened today. My dd forgot to bring hers and the teacher who was blowing into his and demonstrating to the class just moments earlier just passed his to her for her to try to play a few notes. No wiping or washing etc and so she just used her shirt but she said his recorder stank!
And then he took it back after my daughter played the songs a few minutes later and continued teaching. She said he didn't wipe off her spit as well and just played immediately right there! Wondering if it breaches any policy? But he is a nice teacher. Not sure if I would really want to get him into trouble. But it sure is not right? |
Anonymous
Your daughter is nasty |
Anonymous
+1. Honestly ... wasting everyone'e time here over $10 |
Anonymous
| That’s a 10 dollar bet |
Anonymous
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A Yamaha brand soprano recorder can be cleaned and sterilized. Our kids share it and I just wash it afterward.Biting the mouthpiece is not proper technique.
If you want a recorder that sounds nice, get the alto recorder. The fingering is different from the soprano, and it is harder for small hands, but much nicer mellower sound than the elementary standard soprano recorder. |