Not the woodwind instrument, though, but the organ stop, as found on many of the larger seventeenth-century church instruments. In my article in  BIOS Journal 47 I investigate the nature and provision of these stops, linking them to the mysterious ‘antheme’ stops that appear in a few specifications. I propose that Recorders were mainly intended for the accompaniment of solo vocalists in the verse anthem repertoire, and the most plausible explanation for the ‘antheme’ stops is that they were Recorders pitched in C rather than the more usual (at that period) F.