Learning fiddle or flute

[ashemando]

My experience with flute was that creating the notes was not a problem. Reading music quickly and transfering the info through the brain to the fingers was much more difficult. Keep that in mind if you plan to play using
printed music...

[Yuletide]

Learn to play it well and people will become enchanted with it.

That's pretty much what I was thinking reading this thread. Don't know why Klaus doesn't like recorder, but both alto and tenor are lovely, soothing instruments. And easy to play, too. And relatively inexpensive.

Someone said something about the cheap recorders they give to kids being awful, but that's far less true than it used to be. The cheap, wooden soprano recorders of years gone by were indeed awful, but the cheap plastic recorders most common in schools today are surprisingly good.