Question

what is the difference between a recorder and a flute? especially in how they're played?

Answer 1

Different pitches, and a flute you hold across your face and dont actually but your mouth on it when you play it. A recorder you hold straight to your mouth to play it

Answer 2

well i meant by the fingers...are the notes different in terms of the finger placements?

Answer 3

Well most notes on the recorder you have to have your thumb on a hole ik that idk about the flute though

Answer 4

There are many instruments out there that produce similar sounds, and have the same mechanism.

Answer 5

There are not a lot of differences between a flute and a recorder, but they produce a little bit different sounds.

Answer 6

but what about how it's played? i mean they're both wind instruments so they're bound to have a common mechanism

Answer 7

Also, they have a different technique(I know you put the fingers on holes in both of them, no pun intended).

Answer 8

The real people who play the flute play it from its side.

Answer 9

a soprano recorder sounds a bit like a flute though

Answer 10

o.O

how can you play it form the not side

Answer 11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZX5qdIEB0 He's playing this from the side(flute)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCZr-xAbLGM He's playing this from the front(recorder)

Answer 12

well yeah i understand the orientations of both instruments...i am curious to the finger placements...

Answer 13

Umm I have played an Indian flute, but never a recorder.
Another thing I know is that they're made up of different material.

Answer 14

i think recorder is made up of plastic lol but the answer regarding the finger placement still eludes me -_-