Modern Flute is used in music composed after 19th century.
The standard concert flute is pitched in the key of C and has a range of three octaves starting from middle C. The flute is mostly used in Classical Music composed after 19th century and in pop music and other modern music styles.
Beginner's flutes are normally made of nickled copper, and sometimes silver plated, while professionals use solid silver, gold, and sometimes platinum instruments.
There are music composed for recorder from 11th century onwards and also some contemporary composers have made music for the recorder.
There isn't a standard recorder although someone might know the recorder from its elementary school use (plastic soprano C recorder). Recorders come in 12 different sizes and professionally most commonly used would be the alto recorder in F. Recorder has a range of two and half octaves. The recorder is mostly used in early music composed in 11th century to 18th century.
Recorders are made from different species of wood like boxwood, olive, grenadilla, rosewood etc. There are also recorders made out of plastic but those are only usable for practicing (you can play wooden recorder for only an hour straight then you need to let it dry - a plastic recorder can be played all day)
Flutes are played horizontally. Recorders are played vertically.
Well a flute can be compared to a recorder because they are both played by blowing air out of your mouth to produce sound. The difference is just that a flute is blown ACROSS and a recorder is blown INTO.
no the flute is longer and the recorder is shorter
the recorder is prop looking down like a clarinet and the flute is prop in front of you and to the side. the recorder does not come in a lot of sizes, but the flute has tons of different sized instruments like there is the bass flute witch can be bigger than you , and there is a piccolo witch is very small.
the flute is held sideways the recorder is not
the flute was origanly the recorder and it slowly evoved into the flute
A recorder is plastic
Generically, the Italians use the term "flauto" for "flute". In the Renaissance, the flute didn't get the title of 'flute' at all, though: the recorder was called "flauto diritto" while the flute proper was called fiffaro. Variants on the recorder included "flauto dolce", and the term 'piffaro' was used throughout the continent in Queen Elizabeth I's time. Generally, in this period, it was more common to play instruments in families, rather than in "broken consort", mixing instruments from other families. By Handel's and Vivaldi's time, in the Baroque period, the recorder and flute were fully used side-by-side, and he was careful to differentiate between the recorder and the flute held 'across' the body, the traversia. Before about 1720, Italians didn't seem to make much clear difference between the transverse flute and the recorder, after this, the flute was generally known for its playing position, or its association with Germany. As the recorder fell out of use, flauto traversie eventually was shortened to flauto, which is retained on modern Italian scores.
flute has no reed
recorder
Flute
the first flute was really a recorder and it slowly evolved into a flute
The flute, unfortunately, that bloody recorder is sucha a buzz killer