But as it turns out, the recorder has found a second life online. The Daily Dot's Luke Winkie uncovered a YouTube subculture full of people who record covers of popular songs played on the recorder.

You want old skool electronic music? How about 1951? Researchers at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand have just restored what is probably the oldest piece of recorded, computer-generated ...

Seven contributors from four different countries write on topics such as the recorder and its music through the centuries, the recorder as orchestral instrument, the professional recorder player ...