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This paper explores how the recorder became a staple of Australian primary school music programs. At that time recorders were comparatively recently revived Renaissance musical instruments that were adopted by music educators as a way for children and their teachers to engage in instrumental music making in classes. The inclusion of recorders in school music lessons was not always as successful as hoped but a lucky few had recorder teachers who were expert musicians like my teacher. This personal history explores the arrival and presence of the recorder in school music in South Australia. Data were gathered from primary and secondary documentary sources, personal recall and an interview with my recorder teacher, Cecily Wood. This research considers a commonplace occurrence in the lives of many Australian children and by focusing on a taken-for-granted practice in school music, adds to the historical record and to our understanding of what we do and why we do it.  \nKey words: primary school music; recorder playing in schools; instrumental music learning; history of the commonplace; Cecily Wood  \nAustralian Journal of Music Education 2016: 50(1), 16-26  \nIntroduction  \nIn 1964 I was in Grade 5 in an Adelaide primary school and my whole class was learning the recorder from Mrs Wood. We were learning from The School Recorder Book 1 revised edition (Priestley & Fowler, 1962) . I began on descant, progressed to tenor in Grade 6 (large hands) (see Figure 1) and began clarinet in Year 7.  \nI am not unusual as this is the pathway that many people take to instrumental study, but I always wondered how the recorder had entered my schooling and set me on a path towards tertiary music study. Nearly three decades later I interviewed my teacher Cecily Wood about how she came to be teaching the recorder in Adelaide in the 1960s. This paper explores how this  \ncame to be and this research resonates with the experiences of many children and their teachers across Australia. As a historian I am interested in the commonplace by which I mean those wellestablished and ubiquitous activities that we take for granted. Learning and playing the recorder was and continues to be a commonplace occurrence in Australian primary schools. The recorder is now a staple of western class music but this was not always the case. It was not until the 1930s that the resurrected instrument began to appear in English classrooms. We take for granted the presence of the recorder in our classrooms, but the question is how did a nearly extinct renaissance musical instrument end up in the hands of thousands of primary school children in the 20th century?  \n16 50(1) 2016  \nThe revival of the recorder  \nThe recorder began to emerge from its long eclipse in the early twentieth century. In  \n1901, Dr. Joseph Bridges (the brother of the composer Sir Frederick Bridge) gave a talk to the Chester Musical Association. He described the instruments as“flutes, played downwards from the mouth” that were well known in the time of Shakespeare. Bridges recounted that an old box, recently opened in the rooms ofthe Chester Archaeological Society contained a set of recorders (soprano in F, alto in D, tenor in C, and bass in lower F). When played the instruments sounded insipid and interest in them was deemed to be merely antiquarian (Recorders, 1901, p. 81). The instrument was revived and championed by Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940)(Williams, 2005) who in 1905 “perfected the first modern recorder to baroque specifications”(Campbell, 1981, p. 7) .  \nBy the 1930s information about the recorder had reached Australia. 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