Maybe it's simply that people who make recorders out of wood or
shakuhachi out of bamboo put more time and energy (and other
resources) into the instrument than people who make them out of
plastic.
bj
p.s. Stephen Nachmanovitch* tells that Strad made some of his best
violins out of a pile of discarded oars he found on a dock one day.
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* Nachmanovitch, Stephen,
_Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art_
Jeremy P. Thatcher/Putnam, 1990
(a book that should be on every shakuhachi player's short list IMHO)
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