Recorders and Gallery Quire music

Posted by GillanP on
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Hello everyone.
New to this Forum but Chairman of Beaminster Gallery Quire. Not a Gallery Quire expert so asking in novice innocence: were recorders (the things we played in school) ever allowed in church and Gallery Quire whether descant, treble, tenor, bass or any of the rarer versions? I know they have changed fingering and tone over the centuries but am not sure why we so rarely see them in Gallery Quire. Although I do admit seeing 50 descant recorders being brushed off for duty might be a bit much for the soprano line to handle :)
Anyone who can help with this novice puzzlement so I can help answer other equally bemused Quire people?
Best wishes,
Gillian