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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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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

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