What is the recorder?

Recorder or Fiple Flute is a family of tools belonging to the Woodwind group. Different recorders are non-red-revised Woodwind tools that are not standard orchestral tools. Sometimes, however, they are found in chamber music and even orchestral music. They are also often used in class music. When people say recorder , they generally mean soprano or descant, but there are seven standard sizes: soprano/descant, one recorder that is built above, and five that are laid below. Each of the different recorders is built in F or C and alternate. They all sound either like writing or an octave higher. There are seven types, arranged to the highest to the lowest:

sopranino , the highest recorder, is in F and is written on the height Clef, but sounds higher than written. octave higher than written.
• Alto/TrebbleNG>, another recorder, is in F and is written to the same extent as sopranino, but in further reperding, it is in further recipulation, it is in the next reit, it is in the first extent. And it is written to the same extent as soprano/descant, but it sounds as it is written.

• Bass , another recorder, is in F and is written on the bass key, but sounds higher.

• Great bass , another recorder, is in C and is written on Bass Clef, but sounds higher.

• Contra bass , the lowest recorder, is in F and is written on the bass key to the same extent as the bass recorder, but it sounds written.

Related tools include another blown flute, as well as Indian flute, flageolet and tin whistle or pennywhistle. Ocarina is also related; as well as transverse flutes, including concert flute and fife - whose primary use is in combinesACI with drums in marching or military bands; And various pans flutes, usually made of multiple pipes that are used to change the pitch rather than to use holes or keys.

and soprano/descant Recorder has three parts: head joint that holds a beak or mouthpiece, body joint or the middle section, which is the largest piece, and foot , which is the end of the recorder. The bass recorders can have four pieces and bocal , a thin metal tube, through which the player blows, or a direct cap of the mouthpiece. Sopraninos can be made in two pieces.

The famous parts of the recorder are included in Johan Sebastian Bach, for example at Brandenburg Concertis . They also appear in Georg Handel, Henry Purcell, Georg Telemann and Antonio Vivaldi. More recently, the recorder is found at the work of Ralph Vaughan-Williams, Benjamina Britten, Leonard Bennstein and Stephen Sondheim.