Recorders used to be a popular instrument. Many people around the world will fondly recall the moment in their early schooling years when they no longer had to screech out a horrifying rendition of Three Blind Mice or something along those lines on a recorder. This seemingly useless musical instrument, while shunned today, was all the rage back in the Baroque period of the early 1700s. It was so quiet that it was eventually replaced with the significantly louder flute so that the rest of the orchestra wouldn’t drown it out.
100 Mind-Blowing Recorder Facts
The first video camera recorder was as big as a grand piano!
The first-ever VCR was the size of a piano. When the first VCR (Video Camera Recorder) was made in 1956, it was the size of a piano. Way bigger than I would have guessed!