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The '''recorder''' is a woodwind [[music|musical]] instrument in the flute family.  Though flute-like whistle instruments date from the Iron Age, it is unknown when the recorder was invented.  The earliest surviving examples date to the latter [[17th century]].  The vast majority of recorders made today resemble the more refined Baroque variety.  Notwithstanding the documentery ignorance concerning its precise [[medieval]] shape and mode of use, the recorder has become ingrained in the [[recreationist]] [[canon]] as an [[authenticity|authentic]] [[period]] instrument.
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