ABSTRACT
The future of research on the recorder looks different to me now than it did nine years ago when I wrote about it for the first edition.1 Then I complained that few researchers were aware of all the work being done in the field-which I attributed to their not reading the relevant periodicals. That situation probably has not changed much: most recorder players still subscribe to only one magazine, if any. What is different is that researchers have been reading my annual reviews of recorder research, especially the Germanlanguage version in Tibia, which has a wide circulation in Europe. The purpose of these reviews is to save people time in identifying, reading, and evaluating the new research on our instrument. And it looks as if it has worked: I have received more feedback from that series of articles than from anything else I have published. Of course, the first edition of the present book also alerted those kind souls who bought it to the wide range of existing research.
