Did you or you children learn to play the recorder?

I did as a kid, although it wasn't through school. I honestly don't remember why I first started... probably because a friend was taking lessons. lol. I took lessons for years and eventually played soprano, alto, and tenor recorders. I played in an ensemble with other advanced students, and we were even on the radio a few times (remember this was back in the Dark Ages when we only had three TV channels and most people listened to the radio a lot). I still mess around with mine sometimes, and alto is my favorite. Which makes sense because when I sing I'm an alto. lol

Alto recorder (skip to about 46 for the start of the music)

And for those of you who are thinking recorders are "screechy", as Merge said, they don't have to be. Only in the hands of 3rd graders perhaps, but it isn't difficult to get a nice sound out of a recorder. Unlike say a violin which sounds like fighting cats for quite awhile. Or a trumpet which sounds like a sick moose. (I had both a fighting cat -- dd -- and a sick moose -- ds -- in this house for awhile. omg   )

Anyway, here are some lovely recorders.

Recorder group playing Vivaldi

Soprano recorder playing Danny Boy

....My kids both learned to play recorder in elementary. But then ds switched to trumpet and dd wasn't really interested in recorder and took violin when she got to the 4th grade. Then she gave that up also and switched to dance. I never pushed her to stay with music because in my family I was the lone wolf who was interested in music...my dad was an artist, my sister was talented in drawing, and even my mother had taken art classes. Any music I wanted to do was on my own initiative. Which is why the recorder and singing in choruses were my first things...recorder was inexpensive and singing was free. So I never wanted to push dd too much when she was interested in other things (dancing in particular). Funny though...recently she started messing around with Duolingo Music and has just bought herself a keyboard.