I couldn't spot any other relevant threads but I see there are some here interested in the recorder,,, pro and against.

Interesting prog here from BBC radio 3 talking to lots of expert recorder players.
No folk but lots of musical examples; not to be missed if you're an enthusiast!

The Listening Service
Recorders


,,,The first instrument put into the hands of thousands of 20th-century primary school children across the world, creating lifelong musical memories, some good, some bad.
,,, A recent survey of children who play a musical instrument found that the proportion playing the recorder has collapsed from 52% in 1997 to just 15% in 2020.
,,,An understated presence in the history of classical music nevertheless, the recorder has been utilised by composers from Henry Purcell and Handel, to Paul Hindemith and Luciano Berio.
Tom Service investigates…


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0013zy2