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The lowest note of most recorders is either C or F. Professor Agnes Dorwarth of the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg argues this is an attractive way to get children to play with part of the instrument, which can make playing the entire instrument more inviting. Many players blow harder like "normal" recorder playing (like with a pea whistle), to get a very shrill and loud sound. Effects are made by opening and covering the lower end of the head joint with the hand while blowing. With a bit practice, it is easy to play all kind of rhythms. Because the recorder head works like a whistle, it can be used as such. The head joint of the recorder is used as a noise, rhythm and effect instrument, and as a toy musical instrument with children. Many elementary schools use plastic recorders to teach music to children. They are easy instruments to play simple music. They are cheap and vary greatly in quality (that is often not related to the price) depending on the manufacturer. Plastic recorders were invented in the 20th century. The Beatles played the recorder in their song Fool on the Hill and the Rolling Stones used a recorder in Ruby Tuesday (song). The recorder is sometimes used in popular music. Some of these people are Paul Hindemith, Luciano Berio, John Tavener, Michael Tippett, Benjamin Britten, Leonard Bernstein, Gordon Jacob and Edmund Rubbra. In modern times, people have written new music for the recorder. Some of these people were Frans Brüggen, Hans-Martin Linde, Bernard Kranis and David Munrow. Other musicians also began to play the recorder at serious music concerts. In England, Arnold Dolmetsch was one of the people who was famous for this. In the 1900s people wanted to play old music with old kinds of instrument. Flutes are also better for playing music which needs many chromatic notes. Flutes are good for playing music which has a large range of notes. In the picture at the top of the page, one of the recorders is in three parts.įrom the second half of the 1700s, people preferred to play the flute and clarinet instead of the recorder. They were also made in several parts that fitted together. They were thinner than Renaissance recorders. Recorders from this time are called Baroque recorders. They also wanted them to play more difficult music. In the 1600s, the people who made recorders tried new ways to make them sound better. Recorders from that time are now called Renaissance recorders. William Shakespeare talks about recorders in his play Hamlet and John Milton talks about them in his poem Paradise Lost. King Henry VIII of England had 76 recorders. Many people played the recorder in Europe in the 1500s and 1600s. Some remains of these have been found in Germany, the Netherlands and Greece. The first recorders were made in the 1500s. It also has one end bigger than the other. It has holes for seven fingers and one thumb.
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People have found some whistles that were made in the Iron Age.