INTRODUCTION
For ten summers, a large and widely varied group of people from seven to seventy years of age have come to the Trapp Family Music Camp in Stowe, Vermont, for the purpose of learning to play the recorder.
The Trapp Family Singers themselves have played recorders all of them from the little Sopranino to the imposing Bass in hundreds of concerts for nearly two decades, in most European countries, in the United States and Canada, in Central and South America, in the Caribbean and in the Hawaiian Islands.
Many of their enthusiastic listeners have turned into eager students and advocates of this ancient and lovely instrument, with its "sweet music" of which the poets sang.
Today, the recorder is again being played as it was centuries ago, and the number of its lovers is increasing day by day. Through the doors which it has opened, many have found great enjoyment in exploring the wealth of lovely music written for it through the ages.
This Method has grown as a consequence of the recorder classes conducted by Maria Trapp in Stowe, Vermont. Ten years of practical experience in the art of teaching the recorder are resolved and set forth in this Method.
It is a distinct pleasure to present this excellent work to the many thousands of lovers of the recorder, and to the many more thousands who will want to join their ranks.
December 1, 1953
Theodore Mix, President Magnamusic Distributors, Inc.
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