List of recorder players
A recorder player is a musician who plays the recorder, a flute-like woodwind musical instrument. The recorder is often used in teaching the rudiments of music, as it is cheap to buy and relatively easy to play at a certain level of accomplishment (although its mastery is as demanding as that of any other instrument). Because of this widespread use of the recorder, the list of people who can play it is enormous.
This article consists of three alphabetical lists of people whose notability is established by reliable sources in other Wikipedia articles: first, those who are notable recorder players and are widely recognised as performers on the instrument; second, those who are not famous as recorder players but who have used the instrument as a notable feature of their work; and, third, people who are famous for some other reason but are known to be recreational players of the recorder.
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List of notable recorder players
- Aldo Abreu
- Piers Adams
- Giovanni Antonini
- Tom Beets
- Rachel Begley
- Vicki Boeckman
- Erik Bosgraaf
- Frans Brüggen
- Ferdinand Conrad
- Michael Copley
- Patrick Denecker
- Richard Harvey (of Gryphon originally)
- Paul Hindemith
- Imogen Holst
- Peter Holtslag
- Erich Katz
- Jill Kemp
- Hans Maria Kneihs
- Dan Laurin
- Hans-Martin Linde
- Matthias Maute
- David Munrow
- Carlos Núñez Muñoz
- Samuel Pepys
- Michala Petri
- Philip Pickett
- Barnaby Ralph
- Jef Raskin, 'Father of the Macintosh'
- Ashley Solomon
- Maurice Steger
- Sufjan Stevens
- Linda Turbett
- Marion Verbruggen
- Horacio Franco
Other musicians who have made notable use of the recorder
- Gary Brooker and Matthew Fisher of Procol Harum played the recorder on the track "Boredom" on their third album, "A Salty Dog".
- Emma Christian, native Manx Gaelic singer and folk artist plays the recorder in place of the more traditional tin whistle.
- Dido studied recorder at the junior department of London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama and most famously plays it on the track Thank You from her debut album No Angel
- Jimi Hendrix played soprano recorder in some of his studio recordings
- Bob Homme used the recorder as part of his children's TV show, The Friendly Giant
- Keith Jarrett played recorder on his album The Survivors' Suite
- Billy Joel played the recorder on Cold Spring Harbor.
- Brian Jones (Rolling Stones) notably played the recorder in the song Ruby Tuesday
- John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) played several recorders in the studio recording of Stairway to Heaven
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk featured the recorder on several of his recordings.
- Terry Kirkman of the Association frequently played recorder on Windy, Along Comes Mary, etc.
- Sarah Martin (of Belle & Sebastian)
- Paul McCartney (The Beatles) occasionally uses the recorder in his music (e.g. The Fool on the Hill)
- Steve Page of the Barenaked Ladies played the recorder on "Helicopters" on their album "Maroon (album)".
- Mick Ronson, glam-rock guitarist, producer and arranger played multi-tracked recorders on David Bowie's "Life on Mars?" and on Lou Reed's "Satellite of Love"
- Bon Scott played recorder during his pre-AC/DC career in the band Fraternity
- Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane played the recorder on the albums Surrealistic Pillow (most notably in "Comin' Back to Me" and "How Do You Feel"), After Bathing at Baxter's and Volunteers.
- Bruce Springsteen plays recorder on some of his tracks
- Roy Wood from The Move would play recorder frequently on The Move's albums.
Notable people who also play the recorder
- James Dean apparently learnt to play Bach on the recorder
- Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, author of The Name of the Rose
- Rasmus Fleischer
- George Bernard Shaw
- Richard Stallman
- Patrick Troughton, who often played while in character as the Second Doctor in Doctor Who
- Sarah Vowell
- Rainn Wilson who also plays the recorder while in character as Dwight Schrute in The Office
- Bonnie Wright
