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The recorder is a duct flute, made of three jointed sections of wood with five single holes and two double holes. The first written description of a recorder is dated to the 14th century, in northern Italy. Recorders of that time were made from a single piece of wood which had a ninth hole stopped by a wax plug, or wooden peg. There is also a written record of a collection of King Henry the Seventh of England, a skillful musician, who at the time of his death in 1547 was known to have a collection of instruments including seventy-six recorders. None of this collection survives today. European composers began to write music for the recorder during the Renaissance, when the recorder was used mainly in consorts and not for solo work. Later music for the recorder ranges from the solo sonatas written by Marcello, Scarlatti, and Vivaldi, to the compositions of J. S. Bach, who used recorder in his orchestral music and cantatas, including his St. Matthew's Passion.