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Who the hell called that a recorder btw? As not-a-native-speaker, the first time I heard that term I was super confused, thinking they were talking about a tape recorder.
As a native English speaker, I had the same thought.
Yup, That’s a straight flute.
Millions of American children are (were?) given these in the third grade and yes they all call them that
We all had these in school as well in Europe but we just call them flutes.
Same in the UK.
It’s an old ass instrument so it had the name long before tape recorders. As for other kind of recording, Wikipedia says:
The instrument name recorder derives from the Latin recordārī (to call to mind, remember, recollect), by way of Middle-French recorder(before 1349; to remember, to learn by heart, repeat, relate, recite, play music) and its derivative recordeur (c. 1395; one who retells, a minstrel). The association between the various, seemingly-disparate, meanings of recorder can be attributed to the role of the medieval jongleur in learning poems by heart and later reciting them, sometimes with musical accompaniment.
Damn jongleurs!
(But thanks for teaching me something today!)