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Recorder (musical instrument)

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Recorder is the name for several different items.

  • recorder: a flute-like woodwind musical instrument. It is held vertically from the lips (rather than horizontally like the 'transverse' flute). The player's breath strikes a wooden 'fipple' in the throat of the instrument, and thereby agitates a column of air, the length of which (and the pitch of the note produced) is modified by holes in the front and back of the instrument. The recorder is descended from very early folk-whistles. It was used in Renaissance music and Baroque Music, and has more recently been revived, gaining a reputation as a children's and amateur's instrument.


Several forms of devices for recording sound, visual, and other information, commonly on magnetic tape:

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