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Carl Dolmetsch (23 August 1911 – 11 July 1997) was a English recorder virtuoso.
Pioneer
If anybody deserved the nickname "Mr Recorder", it was Carl Dolmetsch, for the world-wide popularity of the instrument in schools is largely due to his influence. – Obituary in Independent (14 July 1997)
Carl Dolmetsch took the stage
Before recorders were the rage.
It was the premise of a kind of rebel,
This notion that this lowly treble
Instrument could hold its own,
(And wasn’t just a flutophone).
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