All bass and contrabass recorders will have this feature as well. Some tenor recorders have a single or double key to help close the lowest tone hole. Boxwood, rosewood or Blackwood are also commonly used but produce a stronger tone and are more expensive. A softer wood, such as pear wood, olivewood or cherry wood, is usually less expensive and produces a warmer tone. The choice of the wood does influence the tone to a certain extent. Wooden recorders require more care in construction as well as in maintenance than plastic recorders. It clogs with moisture more than a wooden instrument but is much more durable. Plastic is suitable for an inexpensive instrument that is easy to play and care for. When choosing a recorder, material will have a significant impact on pricing. The soprano, tenor and contrabass are in the key of C, while the sopranino, alto and bass are in the key of F. The recorder comes in six sizes: sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, bass and contrabass. Well-known composers of recorder music include Bach, Telemann and Purcell. Its volume was not loud enough for the concert halls being built during the nineteenth century and hence it fell out of favor. Typically used for Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music, the recorder is best suited to chamber music and solo pieces. The far edge of the breath hole cuts the air stream, forcing a portion of it into the body and out of the tone holes.įipple Flutes – (from left to right) Angel Soprano, Susato Tabor Pipe, Thin Weasel D tin whistle, Clark C Penny Whistle, Moeck ondo Tenor Recorder, Howard low D Tin whistle Transverse flutes have a breath hole which is not inserted into the mouth, but instead is blown across. With a fipple flute, air is blown into the mouthpiece and is split by a piece of wood, bone, plastic or metal (the fipple) located inside the body, thus being forced out of the tone holes and producing sound.
The difference is in the way air reaches the tone holes. Air, then, passes through the body and out of the tone holes. Sound is produced by blowing into the blow hole. Regardless of type, both kinds of flutes are tubes with a blow hole and tone holes. The mouthpiece or blow hole is near one end of the instrument. Transverse flutes are held parallel to the floor to one side of the player’s body.
A fipple flute is one held perpendicular to the floor and with the mouthpiece or blow hole at the very end of the instrument. Flutes are classified into two groups: fipple flutes and transverse flutes.
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