The Recorder Player's Handbook is a comprehensive survey of the instrument, its history and its music and deals extensively with the following subjects: - the instrument: its design, structure and mechanics with detailed information on historical models and materials, advice on the choice and care of the instrument - playing the recorder: advice on breathing, tone production, fingering and aticulation, practice and performance - recorder music and its performance: a survey of recorder music from the early Middle Ages to Baroque period and with a valuable consideration of the recorder in the twentieth century