Garklein Ensemble, recorders

Playing a musical instrument - whether you're professional or amateur - rarely follows a simple trajectory of practice and progress and it makes psychological as much as physical demands that can come to define a person. Alan Hall talks with musicians about the nature of their relationship to their chosen instrument.

Today, the Garklein Recorder Ensemble from Yorkshire, which comprises mostly former peripatetic music teachers who in retirement have migrated to recorders, in various shapes and sizes, from other instruments.

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 3