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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 110 points 1 day ago (9 children)

If you’re wondering, Why recorders? — there are three reasons:

  • They’re portable.
  • Recorders in decent enough quality can be cheaply produced, so even low-income children get to play one. Compare that with a guitar where 30$ gets you a piece of wood that detunes as soon as you lay eyes on it. Not great for practicing.
  • Recorders have an easily memorizable fingering scheme that allows you to quickly pick up the C Major scale. Compare this with a guitar where you need to remember for each string individually which frets have the notes of the scale.
[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You don't need to remember for each string individually which frets have the notes of the scale on a guitar. If you know where the base note is, there is exactly one pattern for minor and one for major.

Guitars are very hard to play for kids because the strings are so thin that they hurt after very few minutes.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Guitars are very hard to play for kids because the strings are so thin that they hurt after very few minutes.

That’s a better reason.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Also, longer fingers help with play and children don't have full sized hands yet.

That said, you could probably get away with ukeleles instead of recorders, if you were really insistent on string instruments.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago

Indeed. The scheme for guitar could literally not be easier.

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