The Recorder, also known as the Flute, is an item which first appears in The Legend of Zelda series, specifically The Legend of Zelda, before making its first Mario-related appearance in Super Mario Bros. 3.
Description
In the original The Legend of Zelda, the Recorder has several uses, and the most common one is summoning a whirlwind that carries the hero, Link, to another part of the overworld. This effect was retained in Super Mario Bros. 3 except it instead takes Mario or Luigi to the Warp Zone. In both games, using the Recorder plays a distinctive six-note theme named the Warping Theme. Interestingly, the tornado-like warp usually appears from the right of the screen in Super Mario Bros. 3 rather than the left in its original source material.
In The Legend of Zelda franchise
The Legend of Zelda
During the first quest, Link can find the Recorder in Level-5. Here, it is essential to defeat the boss Digdogger. If Link blows the Recorder, Digdogger shrinks and becomes vulnerable to a sword attack from the young hero. In the Second Quest, the Recorder can be found in in Level 2.
In the Overworld, the Recorder can be used to reveal hidden entrances to various locations, including Level-7 in the first quest, Level-6 in the Second Quest, and several hidden caves in the latter. In normal circumstances, using the Recorder in the Overworld summons a whirlwind that warps Link to the entrance of a Dungeon he has completed. Even during the Second Quest, the Recorder takes him to where the dungeons in the original quest were located, provided he completes the Second Quest's dungeon of the same number.
Link can warp to the next completed dungeon in sequence if he blows the Recorder while facing north or east. If he blows the Recorder while facing west or south, Link is taken to the previous warp destination in sequence. Also, if Link blows into the Recorder several times while the whirlwind approaches, he can cycle through the sequence indefinitely.
Hyrule Warriors series
In Hyrule Warriors and its reissues, the Recorder is one of the Item Cards in Adventure mode. In the downloadable Majora's Mask Pack, the Recorder is featured as a Baton titled the 8-Bit Recorder.
In Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition, the 8-Bit Recorder is no longer a weapon of its own, but if the "8-Bit Weapons" setting is on, it replaces the Liquid Glorious Baton.
In the Mario franchise
Super Mario Bros. 3
In its Super Mario Bros. 3 appearance, the item is named the Warp Whistle. There are three of them within the game, two of which are hidden in levels of the Grass Land and one in the overworld of Desert Land. Like in The Legend of Zelda, using the Warp Whistle plays the same melody and summons a Whirlwind, but it instead takes Mario or Luigi to the Warp Zone.
If a Warp Whistle is used in World 1, Mario or Luigi can only use the Warp Zone to access either Desert Land, Water Land, or Giant Land, the second, third, and fourth worlds respectively. If a Warp Whistle is used in any world ranging from Desert Land to Ice Land, the Warp Zone only allows access to either Sky Land, Ice Land, or Pipe Land, the fifth, sixth, and seventh worlds respectively. Lastly, using a Warp Whistle in either Pipe Land, Dark Land, or within the Warp Zone itself only allows Mario or Luigi to access the eighth and final world, Dark Land. If the plumbers managed to obtain two Warp Whistles in World 1, the first use will make them access the first four Worlds as usual, but the second one will immediately allow Mario or Luigi to reach Dark Land, making the game able to be completed quickly.
World 1-3
If Mario/Luigi crouch long enough on a white block, they will fall into the background and be able to run behind the scenery, as well as the black wall at the end. At the end is a Toad House containing the first Warp Whistle.
World 1-Fortress
The second Warp Whistle is found at the Grass Land Fortress. Once Mario/Luigi obtains the Super Leaf from a block where the first door is located, they can fly up above the ceiling where the door is. After flying as far as they can at the end, they can press on the D-Pad to be warped to a room containing a treasure box with the Warp Whistle.
World 2
The final Warp Whistle can be obtained by breaking a rock at the top right corner of the screen (after defeating the Boomerang Bro. that is holding the Hammer). After breaking the rock, they will reach a secret area with a Fire Bro.. Defeating the Fire Bro. will help Mario/Luigi claim the final Warp Whistle.
Paper Mario: Color Splash
The player can find the Warp Whistle in the Green Energy Plant in a course dedicated to Super Mario Bros. 3.
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In other media
The Legend of Zelda television series
It appears in the fifth episode, "Sing for the Unicorn," with the name "magic whistle." After defeating two Lynels, Link finds a magic whistle and keeps it, deeming it to be useful later on. Toward the end of the episode, Link uses the magic whistle to summon a whirlwind that takes him and the other characters out of the dungeon. The magic whistle plays the Warping Theme just like in The Legend of Zelda.
The Legend of Zelda (Valiant Comics)
It appears in the second issue of The Legend of Zelda from Valiant Comics, in which it is named "Magic Whistle." At the start, Link tells Princess Zelda to use the Warp Whistle if ever she is in danger so that he can arrive to help her. As she is being ambushed by Ganon's minions, Zelda admits that she needs help, so she uses the Magic Whistle to call Link. When he does not appear, she realizes that something must have happened to him.
Crossover appearances
NES Remix series
In NES Remix, the objective of Stage 15-4 of the The Legend of Zelda challenges is for Link to collect the Recorder (spelled lowercase in the game). The Super Mario Bros. 3 iteration of the item, the Magic Whistle, does not appear in any of said game's challenges. The recorder returns in the same challenge in both NES Remix Pack and Ultimate NES Remix.
Trivia
- In Ocarina of Time, an extended version of the Recorder's melody is used for the game's theme song heard on the title screen, although the item itself is not present, in favor of the mystical Ocarina of Time.
- The Recorder makes a cameo in The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
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| Characters | Protagonists | Mario • Luigi |
| Other characters | Kings • Princess Toadstool | |
| Bosses | Boom Boom • Bowser • Koopalings (Larry Koopa • Iggy Koopa • Lemmy Koopa • Ludwig von Koopa • Morton Koopa • Roy Koopa • Wendy Koopa) | |
| Enemies | Enemies | Angry Sun • Baby Cheep • Big Bertha • Blooper • Baby Blooper • Blooper Nanny • Bob-omb • Boo Buddy • Boomerang Bro • Boss Bass • Bullet Bill • Buster Beetle • Buzzy Beetle • Chain Chomp • Cheep-Cheep • Colossal Koopa Paratroopa • Dry Bones • Fiery Walking Piranha • Fire Bro • Fire Chomp • Fire Snake • Gargantuan Koopa Troopa • Goomba • Grand Goomba • Hammer Bro • Hanging Piranha Plant • Hot Foot • Jelectro • Koopa Paratroopa • Koopa Troopa • Kuribo's Goomba • Lakitu • Lava Lotus • Micro-Goomba • Missile Bill • Muncher • Nipper Plant • Para-Beetle • Para-Goomba • Pile Driver Micro-Goomba • Piranha Plant • Piranhacus Giganticus • Podoboo • Ptooie • Rocky Wrench • Scattering Blooper • Sledge Brother • Spike • Spiny Cheep-Cheep • Spiny • Spiny Egg • Stretch • Thwomp • Venus Fire Trap |
| Items | Power-ups | Fire Flower • Frog Suit • Hammer Suit • Kuribo Shoe • Mushroom Coin* • Starman • Super Mushroom • Super Leaf • Tanooki Suit |
| Map | Anchor • Hammer • Lakitu's Cloud • Music Box • P-Wing • Warp Whistle | |
| Level | 1-Up Mushroom • Coin • Magic Ball • Magic Wand • Silver Coin | |
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| Other locations | Other locations | Enemy Course • Panel (N-Mark Spade Panel · Spade Panel · Start Panel) • Toad House • Treasure Ship |
| Forms | Forms | Small Mario • Super Mario • Fire Mario • Raccoon Mario • Frog Mario • Tanooki Mario (Statue Mario) • Hammer Mario • Invincible Mario |
| Objects | Regular | ? Block • Big Block • Bolt Lift • Brick Block • Buzzy Beetle Shell • Card • Cloud Block • Cloud Lift • Coin Block • Coral • Directional Lift • Donut Lift • Empty Block • Flimsy Lift • Frozen Coin • Giant Green Shell • Giant Red Shell • Goal • Green Shell • Hidden Block • Ice Block • Jump Block • Lift • Magic Ball • Magic Door • Magic Note Block • Mega ? Block • P Warp Door • Quicksand • Red Shell • Rotary Lift • Semisolid Platform • Spiny Shell • Switch Block • Tank • Track • Treasure box • Vine • Warp Door • Warp Pipe • Wood Block |
| Obstacles | Bowser Statue • Candy Ring • Cannon • Cannonball • Giant Cannonball • Lava • Pit • Rocket Engine • Roto-Disc • Spike • Tornado • Turtle Cannon | |
| World-e-exclusive | Levels | 01: Classic World 1-1 • 02: Classic World 1-2 • 03: Classic World 1-3 • 04: Classic World 1-4 • 05: Classic World 2-2 • 01: Wild Ride in the Sky • 02: Slidin' the Slopes • 03: Vegetable Volley • 04: Doors o' Plenty • 05: Bombarded by Bob-ombs • 06: Magical Note Blocks • 07: The ol' Switcheroo • 08: Piped Full of Plants • 09: Swinging Bars of Doom • 10: Para Beetle Challenge • 11: A Musical Trek • 12: Armored Airship • 13: Ice Dungeon • 14: A Sky-High Adventure • 15: Sea to Sky • 16: It's a Shoe-In • 17: Slip Slidin' Away • 18: Ice Cubed • 19: Puzzling Pipe Maze • 20: A Towering Tour • 21: Castle Dash • 22: Rich with Ropes • 23: Vexing Doors • 24: Caped Escape • 25: Ground Work • 26: An Aqueous Adventure • 27: Bowser's Last Stand • 28: Koopaling Confusion • 29: Bowser's Airship 1 • 30: Bowser's Airship 2 • Airship's Revenge • No Time to Dawdle • Treacherous Halls |
| Enemies and obstacles | Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother • Big Boo • Bony Beetle • Bowser Statue (Super Mario World) • Bumpty • Chargin' Chuck • Fake Bowser (boss) • Falling spike • Fire-Bar • Flurry • Goomba (Super Mario World) • Hoopster • Hothead • Jumping Piranha Plant • Lil Sparky • Magikoopa • Monty Mole • Para-Goomba (Super Mario World) • Porcupo • Rip Van Fish • Spike Top • Thwimp • Wiggler | |
| Items | 3-Up Moon • Advance Coin • Boomerang • Cape Feather • e-Coin • Poisonous Mushroom | |
| Objects | ! Switch • Axe • Balance Lift • Bubble • Control Coin • Dotted-Line Block • Flagpole • Flipper • Giant Gate • Grass • Gray Brick Block • Key • Key Door • Power Meter Block • Rotating Block • Roulette Block • Seesaw • Snake Block • Soft sand • Springboard • Stretch Block • Triangular Block • Vanishing Block • Vegetable | |
| Switch Cards | 1UP Kinoko ga 3UP Moon ni kawaru! • Blue Green Switch • Luigi Power Up! • Orange Switch • Sugu ni mantan! Power Meter!! • Teki Power Up! Tokuten x2!! • Timer yukkuri! | |
| Minigames | Blue Mushroom House • Orange Mushroom House • Red Mushroom House | |
| Other | Caped Mario • e-Coin Castle | |
| Terms | Terms | Completion • Game Over • Extra life • P-Meter • Time limit • Unwinnable state |
| Other | Other | Gallery (Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3) • Matching Game |
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| Characters | Protagonists | Mario • Huey • Peach |
| Supporting characters | Action Toad • Barista Toad • Banzai Bill • Bowser • Birdo • Bloo • Bridge Kinopio • Card Connoisseur Toad • Chosen Toads (Justice Toad · Mountain Sage · Surfing Kinopio) • Daffodil Peak park ranger • "Deep Cuts" Toad • Draggadon • Five Fun Guys • Foreman • Fort Cobalt barista • Greenie • Guide Toad • Host Snifit • Informant Snifit • Know-it-All Toad • Legendary captain • Lighthouse keeper • Luigi • Mega Bob-omb • Mega Urchin • Mustard Café chef • Peddler Toad • Pentabros • Piper • Princess • Prof. Kinopio • Purp • Redd • Red Shy Guy • Rescue Squad (Red Rescue Squad Apprentice Toad · Rescue Blue · Rescue Green · Rescue Purple · Rescue Red · Rescue Squad Chief · Rescue Yellow) • Rock Paper Wizard • Ruddy Road Paint Guy • Shai Guyz • Sunset Express conductor • Super Thwomp • Tangerino Grill Chef • Tea Party Toads • Toad • Toadmaster General • Toads • Violet Passage captain • Wringer • Yella • Yoshi • Yoshis | |
| Bosses | Morton Koopa Jr. • Iggy Koopa • Ludwig von Koopa • Wendy O. Koopa • Larry Koopa • Lemmy Koopa • Roy Koopa • Black Bowser | |
| Mini-Bosses | Big Podoboo • Big Spiny • Kamek • Petea Piranha • Shy Bandit • Steak | |
| Enemies | Enemies | Blooper (10-Stack · Poison) • Bob-omb • Boo (10-Stack) • Buzzy Beetle (Big · Gang · Small (Gang) · Spike Top · Tower) • Cheep Cheep (Small) • Dino Rhino (Wild) • Dry Bones (5-Stack) • Fuzzy (Stack) • Goomba (Accordion · Bone · Mega · Paper-Cone · Para · Small (Gang · Wheel)) • Hammer Bro (Boomerang · Chariot · Circus · Fire (8-Stack) · Ice · Juggler · Sledge (Shady) · Small) • Koopa Troopa (6-Stack · Paratroopa (10-Stack)) • Ninji • Piranha Plant (Fire · Ptooie) • Podoboo (Black) • Pokey (Green) • Rocky Wrench • Scaredy Rat (10-Stack) • Shy Guy (4-Stack · 5-Stack · Animal Trainer · Coal · Gold · Laundry · Paint · Pry · Roller · Shield · Shunned · Silver · Slurp · Soggy · Sombrero · Spike · Trampoline · Unicycle) • Snifit (Chariot · Slurp · Spike · Whistle) • Spike • Spiny • Swooper |
| Locations | Red Courses | Ruddy Road • Cherry Lake • Redpepper Volcano • Redpepper Crater • The Crimson Tower |
| Yellow Courses | Daffodil Peak • Sunglow Ridge • Château Chanterelle • Mustard Café • The Golden Coliseum | |
| Blue Courses | Indigo Underground • Bloo Bay Beach • Dark Bloo Inn • Cobalt Base • Fort Cobalt | |
| Purple Courses | Plum Park • Violet Passage • Vortex Island • Lighthouse Island • Fortune Island | |
| Orange Courses | Marmalade Valley • Kiwano Temple • Toad Trainworks • Tangerino Grill • Sunset Express | |
| Green Courses | Mondo Woods • Sacred Forest • Green Energy Plant • Mossrock Theater • The Emerald Circus | |
| Black Course | Black Bowser's Castle | |
| Blue, Red and Yellow Course | Port Prisma (Action Command Dojo • Prisma Cardware • Prisma Fountain • Prisma Museum • Prisma Postal Toad) | |
| Other | Roshambo Temples | |
| Items and objects | Items | Battle Card • Coins • Hearty Latte • Prisma Juice • Roshambo Cards |
| Special items | Birdcage • Blissful Beach Key • Café Key • Caged "Bird" • Excavation Site Permit • Fishing Pole • Fresh Sheets • Hero's Journal • Holo-Peach • It • Journal Entries • Letter from Chest • Magma Burger • Mamma Mia Pizza • Mountain Climbing Permit • Paint Star Pieces • Sharp Spike • Snifit's Card Key • Tea Recipe Book • Toad's Pants • Toad's Shoes • Toad's Vest • Trunk Key | |
| Objects | ? Block • Big Paint Star • Mini Paint Star • Save Block • Science Claw • Super Ludship • Super Ludsub • Starman • Unfurl Block | |
| Miscellaneous | Status effects | Blue • Crumpled • Dizzy • Poison • Rage • Rhythm • Self-conscious • Unmotivated |
| Other | Flip • Gallery • Quotes • Mario Mandate • Snifit or Whiffit • Super Flag • Super Roshambo | |