Colonial Williamsburg reenactor playing Recorder flute

[dpmaldo]

What song is this?

[oxford14]

That is Mr Herbert Watson who has been at Colonial Williamsburg since 1968.

[deezynar]

Very cool, but alas, it's not a recorder.

[xpdnc12]

It's also a rare example of a "walking cane flute."

[gwbassoc]

This is in fact what is known as the "flauto traverso", or transverse flute, to contrast it with what we would now call a recorder.