what do you do with a recorder when your child is done with it?

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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.

That's not true at all! They are the perfect first instrument for many and are great at developing finger dexterity and allowing them to actually play a song by themselves. My that my children learned was Amazing Grace followed by Ode to Joy.

100% agree. I don't get the hate towards recorders. It also feels a lot like snobbery "well, my kid already plays violin and piano, why do they need this?" Umm, because it's a requirement and not everyone has those opportunities?... Just suck it up and wear headphones during practice if it's so awful.

Yup. We were poor immigrants and if not for the recorder I’d never have played anything as a kid. Thanks to a little plastic recorder in 4th grade, I learned to read the treble clef. That helped me teach myself some things on the keyboard, later when the Internet came along. When my little kids learned piano decades later, I could help them when they had questions.

You don't need a recorder to read a clef.
The recorder don't help figure out the piano.

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Anonymous wrote:$hitcan. Immediately. All 3 of them.

awwww. that's a waste. If they can still be used, I would pass them on. Any elementary kid still needs them and most are hardly used. My kids stopped right after they got their belts.

We gave it back to our school who gladly took it back and will give free to any kid who couldn't/didn't want to pay for a new one. Apparently many families (even the affluent ones) don't want to pay for one even if it means getting one used previously by another child. We ran ours in the dishwasher so it should be pretty good. I know it feels yucky but after all when they come to middle school, you either rent one and those have also been played by others too! Band instruments are even worse because you can't put them in the dishwasher!

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Anonymous wrote:$hitcan. Immediately. All 3 of them.

awwww. that's a waste. If they can still be used, I would pass them on. Any elementary kid still needs them and most are hardly used. My kids stopped right after they got their belts.

We gave it back to our school who gladly took it back and will give free to any kid who couldn't/didn't want to pay for a new one. Apparently many families (even the affluent ones) don't want to pay for one even if it means getting one used previously by another child. We ran ours in the dishwasher so it should be pretty good. I know it feels yucky but after all when they come to middle school, you either rent one and those have also been played by others too! Band instruments are even worse because you can't put them in the dishwasher!

Nope. It's a service to humanity. No one wants to hear a kid play a recorder. No one.

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Anonymous wrote:Post it for free on facebook marketplace or for $1-2

NOBODY wants a used recorder. Blech.

Why not? It can be cleaned and sanitized.

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Donate it to the school my parent never paid the money so i never got one.

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Anonymous wrote:$hitcan. Immediately. All 3 of them.

awwww. that's a waste. If they can still be used, I would pass them on. Any elementary kid still needs them and most are hardly used. My kids stopped right after they got their belts.

We gave it back to our school who gladly took it back and will give free to any kid who couldn't/didn't want to pay for a new one. Apparently many families (even the affluent ones) don't want to pay for one even if it means getting one used previously by another child. We ran ours in the dishwasher so it should be pretty good. I know it feels yucky but after all when they come to middle school, you either rent one and those have also been played by others too! Band instruments are even worse because you can't put them in the dishwasher!

Nope. It's a service to humanity. No one wants to hear a kid play a recorder. No one.

But it is a requirement. So even if you throw yours away, another kid to just have their hands on one as part of school. So why not pass it on. I see nothing wrong if you get a used recorder if you don’t want a new one. (and wash it). Like said above, when you come to a clarinet or a sax, not everyone will buy a brand new one. I am all for saving less plastic and have one only to throw it away. I will pass it on. My kids didn’t doodle on their case and wrote their name very neatly. Also crossing it out was easy. They were also not big chewers so there are some marks from teeth as they learn to use it but no overly hungrily chewed (which is not the correct way of playing it if you keep chewing on your recorder). It was really presentable and something my own kid would use if we didn’t have any money to spend.

Our school is in a fairly wealthy area but has a good local program. The took time to allow kids at the end of the year to put their backpacks, pen cases and other things if parents want to help gift to help another family out. They also have a lesson to teach kids on how to care for their things, not take things for granted and how things could help another family in need. Generally not taught in our previous school which was in an even less affluent neighborhood. There, these kids just couldn’t care less of the things they got. Chromebooks never got cared for, the lost and found was a big big heap and kids just left their coats everywhere and didn’t even bother to care for their things.

But i digress….. it’s good we could have the chance to reuse a recorder and everything else. It’s better than recycling as plastics and garbage.

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Anonymous wrote:Donate it to the school my parent never paid the money so i never got one.

Indeed… if only we could share it to your school too!

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Anonymous wrote:Post it for free on facebook marketplace or for $1-2

NOBODY wants a used recorder. Blech.

Why not? It can be cleaned and sanitized.

++1. A recorder is no different from a used clarinet/flute/trumpet?

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Throw it away!!! And be happy that you'll never again have to hear that damn thing being played!!

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Anonymous wrote:Throw it away!!! And be happy that you'll never again have to hear that damn thing being played!!

Why can’t you give it away? You will never be rid of the thing! Your grandkids may soon play one! If you throw it away, It’s still out of your house. But it may never leave you. I gave my daughter’s to the school after she finished middle school and apparently they reused it in a big basket of spares. Now that she’s back in school to be a teacher, she needed one to pass one of her subjects! She was about to buy one but lo and behold, she was a supply at her old school too this term! Guess what! She found her old recorder back and we are sure it was her’s because she engraved her initial on the recorder. It has bite marks and she can’t remember if she did bite on it lots or some other kid who used it after her was a chewer! But it sure brought back memories and it’s now back in our house! Haha. What a reunion!

Hot cross buns… hot cross buns….

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Remember seeing this post sometime back….

We just gave ours away to a neighbor who turned to be just opposite us who wanted it for her daughter and didn’t want to buy one. Her mother didn’t mind ours had my daughter’s name, her nervous little tooth marks (But it wasn’t too bad and didn’t have heavy chewing like those in my school days) and when we listed on Facebook buy nothing, she was the first to respond. Glad it went somewhere rather than the landfill. Maybe it is a good idea to list it there.

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Burn it

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Anonymous wrote:DDs is inexplicably in the bathroom and she uses it when she’s on the toilet for a while.

SOrry to say but it is really gross to play a recorder in the bathroom and then leaving it there. It will be full of germs! Hopefully she is. It playing it while doing the big business in there!! Ewww

Your toothbrush is also in the bathroom…

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Yeet it back to the hellscape it came from

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💩can. Immediately. Or burn it.