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2. Recorder (musical instrument) - Wikipedia

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   The recorder is a family of woodwind musical instruments in the group known as internal duct flutes: flutes with a whistle mouthpiece, also known as fipple flutes, although this is an archaic term. A recorder can be distinguished from other duct flutes by the presence of a thumb-hole for the upper hand and seven finger-holes: three for the ...

3. Tenor recorder - Wikipedia

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   The tenor recorder is a member of the recorder family. It has the same form as a soprano (or descant) recorder and an alto (or treble) recorder, but it produces a lower sound than either; a still lower sound is produced by the bass recorder and great bass recorder. The tenor recorder, like the soprano recorder, is tuned in C, but is pitched an ...

4. Alto recorder - Wikipedia

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   The alto recorder in F, also known as a treble (and, historically, as consort flute and common flute) is a member of the recorder family. Up until the 17th century the alto instrument was normally in G 4 instead of F 4. [1] Its standard range is F 4 to G 6. The alto is between the soprano and tenor in size, and is correspondingly intermediate ...

5. Bass recorder - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. A bass recorder is a wind instrument in F 3 that belongs to the family of recorders. The bass recorder plays an octave lower than the alto or treble recorder. In the recorder family it stands in between the tenor recorder and C great-bass (or quart-bass) recorder. Due to the length of the instrument, the lowest tone, F, requires a key.

6. Great bass recorder - Wikipedia

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   The great bass recorder is given the name " Bass Flöt" (bass recorder) by Michael Praetorius, and described by him as an instrument in B ♭, a perfect fifth lower than the basset, or "small" bass in F. [2] Marin Mersenne describes a great bass recorder with a very delicate carved double key for the lowest tone and the overlying semitone.

7. Sopranino recorder - Wikipedia

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   The sopranino recorder is the second smallest recorder of the modern recorder family, and was the smallest before the 17th century. This modern instrument has F 5 as its lowest note, and its length is 20 cm. It is almost always made from soft European or tropical hardwoods, though sometimes it is also made of plastic. Historically there were ...