I found this information in lecture 1: HENRY VIII AND THE RECORDER Turning to England in 1511, we find the recorder at the very zenith of its popularity. The throne was filled by a flute player: Henry VIII played on both the recorder and the flute. He was in the twenty-first year of his age and the third of his reign. Richly endowed with mental gifts, the handsomest prince of the time, bluff but affable, gay and jovial. Not only was practice on the recorders and flute his daily task, but he was the possessor of a collection of instruments of the flute family the like of which the world has never seen. They were a hundred and fifty-four in number, seventy-six of them being recorders. No less than twenty-seven were of ivory.
I found this information in lecture 1:
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Turning to England in 1511, we find the recorder at the very zenith of its popularity.
The throne was filled by a flute player: Henry VIII played on both the recorder and the
flute. He was in the twenty-first year of his age and the third of his reign. Richly
endowed with mental gifts, the handsomest prince of the time, bluff
but affable, gay and jovial. Not only was practice on the recorders and flute
his daily task, but he was the possessor of a collection of instruments
of the flute family the like of which the world has never seen. They
were a hundred and fifty-four in number, seventy-six of them being
recorders. No less than twenty-seven were of ivory.