It does allow you to record - in the now obsolete sense of repeating or practicing; 'record a tune' hasn't always meant (or further implied) 'to a storage mediu

It does allow you to record - in the now obsolete sense of repeating or practicing; 'record a tune' hasn't always meant (or further implied) 'to a storage medium for automatic playback'. Which makes sense as they're generally practice instruments, you don't have bands or orchestras with recorder-players, we (at least in the UK) play them in school music lessons without having specific instrument lessons in it or anything else; then some want to play wind instruments and have lessons in flute or clarinet or trumpet or whatever, but not recorder.