Larry Adler Larry Adler Lawrence Cecil Adler (February 10, 1914 – August 6, 2001) was an American harmonica player. Known for playing major works, he played compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin. During his later career he collaborated with Sting, Elton John, Kate Bush and Cerys Matthews. Adler was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Sadie Hack and Louis Adler. They were a Jewish family. He graduated from Baltimore City College high school. He taught himself harmonica, which he called a mouth organ. He played professionally at 14. In 1927, he won a contest sponsored by the
Recorder (musical instrument) Peter Harlan began to manufacture recorders in the 1920s, primarily for education use in the youth movement. Following Harlan’s success, Numerous makers such as Adler and Mollenhauer began commercial production of recorders, fueling an explosion in the instrument’s popularity in Germany. These recorders shared little in common with antiques, with large straight windways, anachronistically pitched consorts, modified fingering systems and other innovations. Nonetheless, the mass production of recorders allowed the instrument to flourish. Indeed, Hindemith's recorder trio for the “Plöner Musiktag” calls for Harlan-type recorders in A-E and D, and Carl Dolmetsch, son of Arnold, was agruably the first virtuoso