Justine now has 16 beginner recorder pupils. As if that were not enough to give her a headache, the note B, in German, is not called B. B is B flat, and H is B. A long time ago the notes of the scale were named after the alphabet but the B natural was often softened to a B flat. A round letter B came to signify B flat, and a square B for B natural. The square B, for B natural, came to be mistaken for an H, and is called so today, a clerical error that has perpetuated over 1000 years. A further complication for Justine is that the recorder is called a Flöte (Flute) which she can't pronounce, and finds herself suggesting that we all play the 'Flirt'(which means the same in German as in English). It'll be a strange musical education for these children.
