Regarding punkfolkrocker's question - Dolmetsch produced some rather fine Bakelite recorders in the 1960s. In tune and not a bad tone but they shattered if you dropped them. Each 'improvement' saw a deterioration and Arnold Dolmetsch would have been birling in his grave. The wooden Schotts instruments of the time were dire and Boosey & Hawkes not much better. They were, at that time, always seen as school instruments and, thus, not much better than toys.