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Thread #159280 Message #3773750
Posted By: Jack Campin
19-Feb-16 - 07:36 AM
Thread Name: Pete Seeger playing the recorder
Subject: Pete Seeger playing the recorder
I was just looking up the maker of a recorder I have, William Koch from Haverhill, NH, and came across a Google Books scan from Haverhill and East Haverhill by Nancy Burton, which mentions Pete Seeger dropping on on the Koch workshop in 1970 (the year Koch died) to get one of his 11 Koch recorders repaired.
Which suggests that Seeger was pretty serious about the recorder. My Koch is probably the best of all the many recorders I own, and as a handmade product made in expensive wood, it must have cost an arm and leg when it was new. Owning 11 of them means real commitment.