Recorders and Blockflute

A recorder

The instrument's essential features are the lip (cut near the top of the body), the fipple (a block of wood inserted in the end to be blown), and the windway (a narrow channel along the fipple through which air is blown against the edge of the lip to produce sound).
It is difficult to document the recorder's early history due to the inability to positively identify what is and what is not a recorder in medieval art. Perhaps the earliest portrayal is an eleventh-century carving on a stone pillar in the church at Boubon-l'Achambault, St George, France.

Musica Antiqua has a set of medieval recorders built by John Hanchet according to iconographical sources and drawing upon the construction characteristics of central European
folk recorders. They are made of plumwood with a removeable windcap and foot of boxwood.
The tone quality is full and richly textured, making them suitable for solo monophonic pieces as well as mixed ensemble typical of medieval polyphony.

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A blockflute

A blockfluteis the same as the recorder.

A difference between a blockflute and a recorder.

A recorder, is played like a clarinet but a blockflute is not played like a
clarinet