The Body
The recorder is made up of three main parts:
1 - The Head Joint
2 - The Middle Section (also known as the Barrel or Body)
3 - The Foot Joint
The recorder also has a Mouthpiece (or Beak) where you blow into, a Lip or Window where the sound comes out from, a Ramp where the air flows up and out of the instruments and a range of Finger or Tone Holes that you cover with your fingers to play different notes.
1 - The Head Joint
2 - The Middle Section (also known as the Barrel or Body)
3 - The Foot Joint
The recorder also has a Mouthpiece (or Beak) where you blow into, a Lip or Window where the sound comes out from, a Ramp where the air flows up and out of the instruments and a range of Finger or Tone Holes that you cover with your fingers to play different notes.
The recorder can come apart quite easily by twisting the three main parts gently and gradually pulling them away from each other. We might need to take our recorder apart for a range of different reasons, some of which are listed below:
- We might want to take our recorder apart so that it is easier to clean.
- When trying to get our blowing right it is easier to just work with the head joint and mouthpiece rather than the whole instrument.
- If focusing on fingering it is sometimes easier to learn finger positions without a head joint to distract you.
When putting your recorder back together there is only one way that the parts will fit. This is so you can never put your recorder back together wrong!
To put the parts back together you will need to gently twist and push the parts together, using the same force as you did when taking the recorder apart.
- We might want to take our recorder apart so that it is easier to clean.
- When trying to get our blowing right it is easier to just work with the head joint and mouthpiece rather than the whole instrument.
- If focusing on fingering it is sometimes easier to learn finger positions without a head joint to distract you.
When putting your recorder back together there is only one way that the parts will fit. This is so you can never put your recorder back together wrong!
To put the parts back together you will need to gently twist and push the parts together, using the same force as you did when taking the recorder apart.