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FAQ articles

ARS YouTube Channel: Expanding Your Resources
A Transporting Experience: Ideas for Carrying Your Recorders
Navigating the ARS Website
Adding Keys to Your Recorder
Baroque vs Renaissance Recorders – What’s the Difference?
Choosing A Wooden Recorder
Do I Need to Insure My Recorders?
Everything You Need to Know About Plastic Recorders
"How Do I Value My Wooden Recorder?"
Recorders for One-Handed Players
So What Does a=440Hz Mean, Anyway?
Traveling Abroad With Your Recorders

Finding your recorder community

Forming an ARS Chapter
How to Find Your Recorder Community
How to Find Fellow Recorder Players
Recorder Stories - How People Took Up Recorder

Your Recorder Community - Online!

Finding Music

An Intro to the ARS Online Music Libraries
How to Use the Online ARS Music Libraries
Wonderful William Byrd - 400th Anniversary
Buy the Book: Why We Still Need Music Publishers
Finding Recorder Music Online
Gotta Have It: Sheet Music Collections Every Recorder Player Should Know, Part II (Trios, Quartets and More)
Gotta Have It: Sheet Music Collections Every Recorder Player Should Know, Part I (Solo and Duet)
Library Science, or How I Found That Music Score
Members' Library Edition Music
NEW: Search and Download Music on the ARS Website!
The Recorder in Popular Music
Your Consort at Home: the Play-Along Library

Keep your recorder playing well

Caring for Your Wooden Recorder
Extreme Temperatures and your Recorder
Expert Tips for a Clogged Recorder
How do I know when my recorder needs revoicing?
Rests for Your Recorders

Skill builders

Adding Percussion to Recorder Ensembles
Aim High: Sharpen your Soprano Skills
Become a Better Recorder Player -- Play in Public!
Conquering Performance Anxiety
Creative Ideas for Enhancing your Music Stand
Developing an Internal Sense of Rhythm
Expand Your Skills with Extended Techniques
Fine-Tune Your Playing with ARS Videos
Focus on Thumb Technique, Part 1
Focus on Thumb Technique, Part 2
Foot Notes: Four-Foot, Eight-foot, Six-Foot Pitch Explained
Get the Most Out of Your Workshop Experience!
Help a friend learn recorder!
How Low Can You Go? Giant Recorders
How to Play Barless Renaissance Music
Improve Your Recorder Playing with the ARS!
Mastering Those Dreaded Sharps and Flats
Making Sure All the Parts Fit
A Newbie's Guide to Joining an Ensemble: Tips for Overcoming Newcomer's Anxiety
Performing in Costume: How to Look the Part
Playing an Italian Madrigal on Recorders
Playing Recorder Consort Music in Mixed Ensembles
Practicing On Your Own
Recorder Ensembles: How to Establish and Sustain Them
Recorder Method and Technique Book Overview
Recorder Method and Technique Books Updated, Part I
Recorder Method and Technique Books, Updated, Part 2
Singing and Recorders
Square Basses: Paetzold Recorders
Take a (Music) Stand!
The Devil's in the Details: Tuning Tips from a Pro
The Process of Tuning
The Return of Ensemble Playing: Now What?!
Transforming the Music: Rethinking Practicing
Traveling Teacher Program - Building Better Recorder Communities
Tuning up a Recorder Ensemble
Which Octave Should I Play? Clefs and Transposition

Technology and recorders

Become Your Own Consort: Recording with the Acapella App
A Guide to Recording Multi-Track Pieces
How to Run a Chapter Zoom Meeting
How to Run Hybrid (Zoom + In-Person) Playing Sessions
Introducing the Electronic Recorder
A Multitrack Recording Primer
Preparing for Your First Online Recorder Lesson
Playing Along Virtually: Tips for Better Sound
Playing Together Virtually -- How to Use JamKazam
Reading Music From a Tablet
Skype Lessons -- A Teacher's Perspective
Streaming Early Music
The Socially Distanced Recorder Player
Using Technology to Enhance your Recorder Playing
Your Consort at Home: the Play-Along Library
Your Personal Electronic Music Library: Storing and Playing Music on a Tablet

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