Image: Wikimedia Commons

recorder

Woodwind musical instrument

Also known as beak flute · block flute · English flute · flutaphone · basset recorder · Blockflöte

Instance of: type of musical instrument
Subclass of: open flute with internal duct with fingerholes
1
Sources
1.Stated in Revision of the Hornbostel-Sachs Classification of Musical Instruments by the MIMO Consortium
View statement on Wikidata ↗
, duct flute

Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · Read full article · Text CC BY-SA 4.0

The recorder is a family of woodwind musical instruments and a member of the family of duct flutes that includes tin whistles and flageolets. It is the most prominent duct flute in the western classical tradition. A recorder can be distinguished from other duct flutes by the presence of a thumb-hole for the upper hand and holes for seven fingers: three for the upper hand and four for the lower.

Overview

All data

54 statements · 24% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 421.221.12
1
Sources
1.Stated in Revision of the Hornbostel-Sachs Classification of Musical Instruments by the MIMO Consortium
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Used by: recorder player

On other databases

44 identifiers linking recorder across the web's reference databases

Data quality

statements

24%

externally sourced

Source last edited October 14, 2026. AIDB refreshes this page daily.

Suggest a fact or correction

Links

Use this data

curl https://aidb.si/api/v1/entities/Q187851

API docs, limits & keys

Cite this page

AIDB. (2026). recorder (Q187851). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/recorder-Q187851