When Music Professor Ruth Griffioen suggested to Evan Callaway ‘12 that he spend his scholarship money building a six-foot-tall instrument that lost popularity after the 17th Century she was joking.

Why settle for a recorder when you could wield a contrabass clarinet – or something you invented yourself? Meet the players drawn to the unusual In the 2022 film Alice, the titular heroine – a slave ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Natasha Anderson with her contrabass recorder Live Proof invites small audiences into the studio for ...

Callaway was first introduced to the contrabass recorder when he took Griffioen's history of western music class last year. From that class, Callaway learned that the recorder had its heyday during ...