Recorder
OriginEurope
Year1300
FamilyWoodwind
About the Recorder
Not a beginner instrument despite school usage. Over 500 years of serious repertoire. The baroque recorder has a complex bore. Vivaldi wrote the most famous recorder concertos. Michala Petri is the greatest living recorder player. The instrument declined in the 18th century and was revived in the 20th.
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