what do you do with a recorder when your child is done with it?
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Anonymous
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I know they don't cost that much, but it seems wasteful to just throw it away.
Is there any school or anyone who wants these? |
Anonymous
| Post it for free on facebook marketplace or for $1-2 |
Anonymous
| Currently hidden under my dresser in hopes she never thinks of it or asks for it. |
Anonymous
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Throw it away. As a musician, they are the worst introduction to instrumental music a child could ever have. Don't pass it on. |
Anonymous
| They are literally $5 instruments. You could toss it in with your goodwill donation but nobody is going to frown if you quietly throw it away. |
Anonymous
I appreciate your perspective, but recorders are required in 3rd-6th grades at FCPS. |
Anonymous
NOBODY wants a used recorder. Blech. |
Anonymous
| OP here -- it's not that I want to keep it, I just hate throwing that much plastic into the waste stream when it is in very good condition and has some use (since they are required for literally thousands of kids in my FCPS district.) We try to reduce and reuse if we can. |
Anonymous
I ***know***. Hence my suffering, and that of my musical children. |
Anonymous
Not pp, but they are required in almost every elementary school system. They are still terrible instruments. I followed a tutorial so I could help my son practice his (I play piano, usually) and I found it quite hard to play. The holes are extremely hard to completely cover and, of course, it almost always sounds off-tune when you play it. I know this instrument is chosen because it's very cheap (in every way), but ugh! Just awful. I taught my son to play his tunes on the piano instead. |
Anonymous
| You could be like my MIL and hold on to it for 30 years and have it in the toy bin for grandkids to play with. My 2 yo plays with an old recorder at my MIL's house. I don't even want to think of the gross scum that is inside that thing- blech! |
Anonymous
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The school required your kid to have it, right? Despite what the miffed musician says above, your throwing it out does nothing to make the world a safer place for "real" music....the teacher's still going to require it of other students, because that's what the curriculum says. Please clean it and offer to donate it to the music teacher at school, saying that you hope another child can use it. (The exception: If your child chewed on the mouthpiece and it's scarred by that; in that case, toss it and don't try to sell or give it away.)
Our DC went to an elementary school in a pretty affluent area but there were some families who either didn't have money to spare for much of anything (which is why the PTA had a fund quietly used to help pay for things like field trip costs for those kids) or who, for other reasons, never seemed to have their act together enough to go get things like a recorder for music class, or halfway decent sneakers for gym class. Even in the overall well-off DCUM area, there are reasons, some financial, some mental or emotional or whatever, that little things like a stock of recorders or sneakers or field trip funds do help give a few kids a better school experience. OK, off the soap box now. |
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Anonymous
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Post on Craigslist of FB Marketplace for free. When someone responds, tell them it wil be in a grocery bag on your front porch for them to retrieve whenever. It gets a new home, and you didn't have to drive it there.
Personally, I'd just put it in the ever growing Goodwill pile. |
Anonymous
| Set it on fire. |