Double recorder

Double recorder several double recorders dating from the 16th c. have been preserved, one in All Souls College, Oxford, with 2 connecting pipes, 1 shorter than the other, having 2 whistle heads that terminate in a common blowhole; both have 4 front fingerholes, but not in equal positions, those of the longer pipe being lower. Another is in the Landesmuseum of Zürich; here the holes, 14 in all, are paired so that 2 can be stopped by 1 finger. Similar instrs. are played today in E. Europe as folk…