Photograph: Instruments - Get Together Week for Recorders

Daily Herald photograph entitled 'Get Together Week for Daily Herald photograph entitled 'Get Together Week for

Daily Herald photograph entitled 'Get Together Week for
Daily Herald Archive/Science Museum Group
© Mirrorpix

Daily Herald photograph entitled 'Get Together Week for
Daily Herald Archive/Science Museum Group
© Mirrorpix

Daily Herald photograph entitled 'Get Together Week for Recorders'. The photograph shows Elaine Kaye, playing a standard recorder, and Barbara Stedeford playing a big bass recorder during a Recorder Course at Shoreditch Training College, London. Dated August 29th 1952.

Photograph from the Daily Herald Archive, indexed as Music, Instruments, Recorders.

Get Together Week for Recorders

100 teachers and student teachers from all parts of the country are spending this week on a Recorder Course at the Shoreditch Training College, Coopers Hill, Englefield Green, Surrey. The course is under the direction of Mr. Edgar Hunt, Chairman of the Recorder Education Course, and in conjunction with the Society of Recorder Players. The lecturer is Mr. Carl Dolmetsch, the famous recorder player.

The photograph shows 22-year old Elaine Kaye of Bradford and St. Anne's College, Oxford (left) and 23-year-old Barbera Stedeford, a teacher from Bristol (playing a big bass recorder), practicing in the grounds of the Shoreditch Training School.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Collection:
Daily Herald Archive
Object Number:
1983-5236/31630
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
type:
photograph and silver gelatin print
credit:
Daily Herald Archive