The tone is wonderful and much better than other options which are comparable in price.

Tone is good

It might be a fault with me as the player, or with me not having bothered to apply the lubricating grease that came with it, or perhaps somehow due to me never formally cleaning the instrument (although I look inside it from time to time, and it looks clean), but for some reason, I find the lowest notes difficult to play with pleasant tone at volume.

After re-discovering my old elementary school recorder a few weeks ago, I have been trying to re-teach myself to play, and decided that I wanted a better, deeper toned recorder

The Yamaha YRA-28 alto is an inexpensive and very user friendly instrument that plays with excellent tone and intonation.

The tones of this recorder is gentle enough to not to annoy my dog

I enjoy the tones but seems to shrill very high on the low notes, scares the dogs!

I can play them very quietly with pleasant tone most of the time.

But I was expecting rich, clear, reverberating lowest notes at decent volume, instead of very quiet to get decent tone.

I enjoy the tones but seems to shrill very high on the low notes, scares the dogs!

The tone is very clear, and the ivory resin is elegantly shaped, there is a reason why this instrument has so many positive reviews!

This recorder has a very nice deep tone, and the carrying case and equipment is very nice, but unfortunately, as I'm a rather small woman, I'm one of the unlucky people whose hands are too small to comfortably play this recorder (my finger span is

You can get a nice tone out of it as well

I liked the tone more than a much more expensive one by a different maker

This is easy to play, holes can be reached, and the instrument has good tone

For the price a very nice tone.

as described, great Yamaha product, our family has a ball with it, makes nice tone.

The tone is remarkable for being plastic

Nice tone and easier to play than the tenor