A sixth medieval recorder was found after the Second World War in a latrine in the city of Nysa in Silesia, Poland, and dates from the 14th century (Mateusz Lacki, pers. comm. 2011). It is housed in the Muzeum w Nysie.

2008年1月28日 · A medieval relative of the recorder: The recorder wasn't the only type of duct flute known (or blown) in the middle ages. The pipe and tabor precedes the recorder in medieval historical...

The primary woodwind instrument in the Middle Ages in Europe was the recorder. This 14th century was found in a latrine in the backyard of #15 Üikooli Street, Tartu, in the present-day Republic of Estonia (near the Estonian border with Russia) ( [Lander 2009] ):

But recorders in fact evolved from their predecessors, as if by a process of natural selection 26 shepherds offering their pipes, representing the soul, to the infant Jesus are shown giving the tiny child a large recorder.

The medieval recorder differed from the now better-known Renaissance and Baroque recorders by being made only in smaller sizes and by having a cylindrical bore which produced a reedier tone than that of its later counterparts.

THE MEDIEVAL RECORDER. This detail from a 15th century painting ( the Coronation of the Virgin of Cologne) gives us an idea of what the recorder was like at the end of the Middle Ages.

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A memento: the medieval recorder Primitive signal-pipes and whistles date back to Upper Palaeolithic times Megaw (1963). Amongst, the world’s oldest musical instruments is a 24,000-year-old duct flute from France, made from the bone …

The instrument name recorder derives from the Latin recordārī (to call to mind, remember, recollect), by way of Middle-French verb recorder (before 1349; to remember, to learn by heart, repeat, relate, recite, play music) [9] [10] and its derivative recordeur (c. 1395; one who retells, a …

2024年12月19日 · Medieval origins The first known depictions of the instrument were in mediaeval century art and manuscripts. The name of the instrument derives from the old French verb ‘recorder’, meaning ‘to remember, to learn by heart’ and also ‘to play music.’