Afternoon Drive with Jeff & Carly

It looks like the recorder is being replaced by the ukulele in primary school music programs.  Kids are more interested in learning to play the difficult to spell instrument made famous by Tiny Tim because of the cool factor…

… not that Tiny Tim was cool - he was kind of scary - but the ukulele is cool because it resembles a guitar.  It’s more rock’ n roll - woo hoo!

Music teachers like the ukulele because it means young students can sing at the same time as they’re playing, teaching harmony and rhythm.  It’s kind of sad, though, that today’s parents won’t be exposed to the screeching cacophony of Au Clair de la Lune or Mary Had a Little Lamb on the recorder.  A parental right of passage has been lost.  And a whole generation won’t know what it’s like to have to clean the saliva off their instrument.  Wait a minute, that didn’t sound right…

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