The recorder used to be an instrument people wanted to hear. As a 1946 article in The Atlantic explained, it gets mentioned lovingly in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Milton’s Paradise Lost.

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The singer and trained flautist was granted permission by The Library of Congress to play the instrument, which arrived on stage with a police escort. Inspecting it on stage, she said ...