To bflat or to B?

HAMLET
       .... O, the recorders. Let me see one. To withdraw with you -why do you go about to recover the wind of me, as if you would drive me into a toil?

GUILDENSTERN     O my lord, if my duty be too bold, my love is too unmannerly.

HAMLET     I do not well understand that.  Will you play upon this pipe?

GUILDENSTERN     My lord, I cannot.

HAMLET     I do beseech you.

GUILDENSTERN     I know no touch of it my lord.

HAMLET     It is as easy as lying.  Govern these ventages with your finger s and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most elegant music.  Look you, these are the stops.

GUILDENSTERN     But I cannot command to any utterance of harmony.  I have not the skill.

HAMLET     Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me.!  You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops, you would pluck out the heart of my mystery, you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak.  'Sblood, do you think I  am easier to be played than on a pipe?  Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.


Scratched my head over this one.  Didn't make a poster image but one that illustrates a favourite scene of mine in Hamlet Prince of Denmark.  Thanks for the challenge hildasrose.