Blockflute

Recorder

Various recorders (second from the bottom disassembled into its three parts)
Woodwind instrument
Other names	German: Blockflöte Italian: Flauto dolce or Flauto diritto French: Flûte à bec or Flûte douce Spanish: Flauta dulce or Flauta de pico Japanese: リコーダー (rikōda) or 縦笛 (tatebue) Portuguese: Flauta doceBR or flauta de biselPT Swedish: Blockflöjt Danish: Blokfløjte Dutch: Blokfluit
Classification	Wind Woodwind Aerophone
Hornbostel–Sachs classification	421.221.12 (Flute with internal duct and finger holes)
Playing range
Soprano recorder: C5–D7(G7)
Related instruments
Tin whistle Flageolet Csakan Three-hole pipe
Musicians
Recorder players

Some hardwoods used to make recorders maplewood (Acer pseudoplatanus, specific gravity 0.63) pearwood (Pyrus communis, specific gravity 0.65), plumwood (Prunus domestica, specific gravity 0.79), Castello "boxwood" (Calycophyllum multiflorum, specific gravity 0.8), Zapatero "boxwood" (Gossypiospermum praecox, specific gravity 0.8), olivewood (Olea europaea, specific gravity 0.85), European boxwood (Buxus sempervirens, specific gravity 0.95), rosewood (including tulipwood (Dalbergia decipularis, specific gravity 0.95), palisander (Dalbergia retusa, specific gravity 1.05), kingwood (Dalbergia cearensis, specific gravity 1.2), etc.), ebony (Diospyros perrieri, specific gravity 1.1), or grenadilla (Dalbergia melanoxylon, specific gravity 1.2)

German: Blockflöte
Italian: Flauto dolce or Flauto diritto
French: Flûte à bec or Flûte douce
Spanish: Flauta dulce or Flauta de pico
Japanese: リコーダー (rikōda) or 縦笛 (tatebue)
Portuguese: Flauta doce^BR or flauta de bisel^PT
Swedish: Blockflöjt
Danish: Blokfløjte

The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument in the group known as internal duct flutes—flutes with a whistle mouthpiece. A recorder can be distinguished from other duct flutes by the presence of thumb-hole for the upper hand and seven finger-holes: three for the upper hand and four for the lower. It is the most prominent duct flute in the western classical tradition.

Recorders are made in different sizes with names and compasses roughly corresponding to different vocal ranges. The sizes most commonly in use today are the soprano (aka "descant", lowest note C₅), alto (aka "treble", lowest note F₄), tenor (lowest note C₄) and bass (lowest note F₃). Recorders are traditionally constructed from wood and ivory, while most recorders made in recent years are constructed from molded plastic. The recorders' internal and external proportions vary, but the bore is generally reverse conical (i.e. tapering towards the foot) to cylindrical, and all recorder fingering systems make extensive use of forked fingerings.

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