What is the difference between flute and recorder?

The key difference between flute and recorder is that recorders have a fipple that directs the air across the edge of the tone hole whereas standard flutes don’t have a fipple.

What is the largest recorder called?

– The biggest recorder is the sub-contrabass recorder.

What are the 3 parts of the recorder called?

Most modern recorders have three sections, called joints, that fit together: the head, body, and foot.

What are the holes on a recorder called?

Tone Hole. The tone holes along the body joint of the recorder are what controls the pitch of the sound as you play. There are five single-tone holes on the top of the body joint, a thumb hole on the back of the body joint, a double hole at the end of the body joint, and another double-hole in the foot joint.

What is the closest instrument to a recorder?

For fingering familiarity and positioning, the clarinet is most like the recorder of the woodwind instruments.

Is the Fife hard to learn?

Fife is much more difficult to play than the regular wooden flute – it takes a very strong embouchure. Your lips need to be tight – try putting a piece of dry rice between your lips and blow until it pops out (I’m serious)… this will give you an idea how small the hole in your lips needs to be.

Is recorder or flute harder?

Because the flute doesn’t use a wedge to split the air, the player has more control over how they blow to create different tone quality or timbre. Incidentally, this also makes the flute much harder to pick up and play compared to the recorder.

What is a sopranino recorder?

The sopranino recorder is the second smallest recorder of the modern recorder family, and was the smallest before the 17th century. This modern instrument has F5 as its lowest note, and its length is 20 cm. It is almost always made from soft European or tropical hardwoods, though sometimes it is also made of plastic.