Recorder Information & Orders

Recorder Information

All OPE students will need access to a recorder to use during the 2023-2024 school year.  Below you may review the three options for acquiring a recorder, and then submit your choice for your child at the bottom of the page. Please submit the form for each individual child.

Why Do Students Learn to Play the Recorder?

Recorder performance will contribute to their musical skill development in several key areas: 

Options for Acquiring a Recorder

Option #1: BRING a Recorder from Home

Using a recorder from home? Make sure it meets these requirements please.

Option #2: Buy a New Recorder

Peripole Recorders Available through OPE!

Option #3: Check out a Loaner Recorder

 When Will My Child Need a Recorder?

Work with recorders will begin later this fall (or January for fourth grade). I will communicate the starting dates well in advance by email, paper reminder, website, and other methods as needed. Starting on these dates, bringing the recorder to music becomes part of your child’s participation grade in music. I recommend that these instruments be stored In your child’s cubby at school (rather than taking them home) so that it is always here when he/she needs it for class.

Recorder Orders