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An instrument about a foot long that you play by blowing threw a wistle type knob, and putting your fingers on holes to prevent air from coming out.
An instrument about a foot long that you play by blowing through a whistle-like mouthpiece known as a ''fipple,'' and putting your fingers on holes to prevent air from coming out.
When we think of a "flute" we think of the modern silver transverse flute, but baroque and Renaissance music written "for flute" would have been played on a recorder.
A recorder is an example of a ''reedless woodwind.''
Recorders are used in music education, because it is easy for beginners to play recognizable tunes on them. The use of recorders in education was popularized in the United States in the 1950s by the [[Trapp Family Singers]], the family depicted in ''The Sound of Music.'' "Song flutes," "flutophones," and "tonettes" are really just slightly modified recorders.
The familiar small recorder is actually only one member of the recorder family, the ''soprano recorder.'' Increasingly larger and lower-pitched members of the family include the alto, tenor, and bass recorders.
[[Image:Recorder.jpg]]
[[Image:Recorder.jpg]]