Having come to traditional music with only the clarinet as background, the recorder was a natural transition, and much later, the whistle...though I never got good on either. I have bags full of fipple flutes of various sorts....recorders from sopranino to bass,many whistles including all the Generation sizes...an Oak, a couple of Clarkes, a 'Melody flute' which is essentially a whistle with a welded mouthpiece played 'sideways' like a flute,...various ceramic ocarinas and whistles, and a couple of wooden flutes which are just a variation on the ocarina. All of these have their uses, though I guess I play 75% recorder and 20% Generation whistle with the others for occasional tootling. (All this in addition to 5 autoharps, a dulcimer, a melodian..etc..etc..etc..) No wonder I never got good at any of them!