Thank you for that, Tim. I only need a couple of extra recorders to make sure all children have one, but will check out ebay, in case there are a few there. I must admit, it didn't cross my mind. If they were very, very cheap it would be ok. The postage will be the problem, if anything. Part of me just feels like buying the recorders, myself, but it is an ongoing thing every year, that new children would like a recorder and I feel it would be a good thing to recycle unused recorders. From the practical point of recorders forthcoming from this thread, though, it appears they are more elusive instruments than I thought! I suppose anyone interested enough to read it, would probably not want to part with a recorder as they are music lovers themselves, which is fair enough and understandable. It is maybe a case of speaking to the wrong people or 'preaching to the converted'.