Lol, what a harsh comment about the status of the recorder in relation to the classical instruments. XD ...I did read somewhere that they were favourite instruments during the Baroque period with ppl like Bach, Handel, etc. But those were the days when they had ones made out of real wood. But yeah, they are mostly related to those horrible white plastic recorders one plays at primary school...which really and literally do produce "plastic" sounds. *shudders* It's even worse/,ore notable when a group of ppl playing them play at the same time.

But I did buy a more expensive recorder a few years back (which is designed to look like wood) and when I play it nowadays it doesn't create too much of a plastic sound though. =o