Will: from your post, we both "listen" to and have "enjoyed" diverse music from our multicultural world - and, to keep it that way, school kids should be encouraged to perform/practice their own music, whilst appreciating that of others.

Piers - I understand the recorder in Germany has slightly different holes/fingering...what is it usually called there?...it can't be the German-flute as that's another name for a transverse-flute...is it "block flute"?

"At a recent indigenous music festival here the profiles in the program include the bands influences. Ones that keep appearing are: indie, urban roots, r&b, funk, reggae, soul, jazz fusion.
Yeah, that sounds like Australian indigenous music. :(" (TW)...so what do you call sicks, chants and didgeridoo..."trad. Aboriginal music"?