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A recorder is a whistle with finger holes
The player blows into a mouthpiece channel rather than over an edge The air hits a fixed edge and splits, producing a steady tone with little effort to start. That makes it a common first instrument in schools. Keys and double holes extend the range in larger sizes. It sits in Mondo's music collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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A recorder is a whistle with finger holes: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- The player blows into a mouthpiece channel rather than over an edge. The figure is taken from Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a music fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Music shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
- What else can I read about it?
- The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.