BUY MODE BLITZ: Beck's Playable Flute

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Beck's Playable Recorder Flute comes in 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem natural colors over my now-usual blend of Piggi Wood 03 and the SDA Castle Kitchen wood. Keep in mind you need both BecksATSRecorderFlutePlayable.package and BecksRecorderFluteSounds.package for the instrument to work, regardless of recolors.

So this object is historically accurate; duct flutes (like recorders) don't just date back to the Middle Ages, they date back to the Neolithic. My hole placement may be modern (I mostly followed Beck's own but also put a thumb-hole on the back), but this TYPE of instrument? Very old indeed, and Medieval recorders have been found dating as far back as possibly-1246. Most historical recorders were made of wood, with some made of ivory or bone, so this time I really did pick an appropriate media to recolor this object!

The recorder was popular on through about 1750, and in the 20th century made a comeback for both historically-informed performance art and promoting lung health in elementary students.

Is this a flute or is it a recorder?

The answer to that is both 'recorder' and 'UGH LANGUAGE.' We call it a recorder now. Historically it was called a flute, flute douce, recorder, common flute, English flute, common English flute, and a mess of other things. (The modern orchestral sideways-held flute, or transverse flute, was called the German flute to distinguish it from the English flute... but the transverse flute was ALSO called just the 'flute,' so I am forced to conclude that the flute and recorder are named such to stop fights among woodwind players.)



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