The Doctor's recorder

The Second Doctor owned a recorder which he enjoyed playing, mostly as a source of self-amusement, but also to help him think. While his future incarnations often relied on the sonic screwdriver as their favourite tool, this Doctor preferred the recorder as an all-purpose utensil.

Modifications
The Doctor often added modifications to his recorder, allowing him to put it to unusual tasks. The Doctor used his recorder as a spyglass on the Silver Carrier. (TV: The Wheel in Space) He repeated this trick in Tobias Vaughn's base. (TV: The Invasion)

In Atlantis the Doctor used his recorder as a blowpipe, expelling powder into Zaroff's face. (TV: The Underwater Menace)

Usage by the Second Doctor
The Second Doctor played his recorder several times while on Vulcan, (TV: The Power of the Daleks) in a marketplace on the Panjistri homeworld to amuse Lilith, (PROSE: Timewyrm: Apocalypse) in the Grange, (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People) in London in 1948, (AUDIO: Lost and Found) while in a Scottish prison cell, (TV: The Highlanders) while visiting Atlantis, (TV: The Underwater Menace) while visiting an Earth colony, (TV: The Macra Terror) while imprisoned by the Daleks, (TV: The Evil of the Daleks) while imprisoned in Tibet, (TV: The Abominable Snowmen) and while under Robot Yeti guard. (TV: The Web of Fear)

When the Doctor's TARDIS landed in Australia, Jamie made the Doctor leave his recorder in the ship before they went out. (TV: The Enemy of the World)

Jamie once chopped up the recorder, but it didn't prevent the Doctor from producing a new one from somewhere. (PROSE: Twin Piques) The Tenth Doctor would later recall that Jamie instead took to hiding the recorder, while also noting that Ben Jackson hated it before he recalled an adventure where his second incarnation had used the recorder to defeat an Alvarian space wyrm by playing a tune that had lulled it to sleep. (COMIC: The Forgotten)

After escaping from the Land of Fiction, the Doctor realised he had left his recorder there, and sent himself back in to retrieve it. While there, he encountered Goth, who asked him to help the Time Lords, and thus sent him to meet his future self. (PROSE: Future Imperfect)

When the Second Doctor and the Third Doctor were transported to Omega's anti-matter universe, the recorder fell into the TARDIS' force field generator, and was therefore not converted into anti-matter during the trip. When the Doctors discovered this, they offered it to Omega, and the resulting annihilation seemingly destroyed the renegade Time Lord and his world. In exchange for his sacrifice of the instrument, the Third Doctor promised his earlier self that he would buy him a "thousand" more. (TV: The Three Doctors)

Although his memories of meeting his future self quickly faded, the Doctor did remember that he had lost his recorder, and went to a music shop on Amber Station to get a new one. (PROSE: Briefly Noted)

He gave his recorder to Flora Millrace, claiming to have extras. (PROSE: The Avant Guardian)

The recorder was useful for more than just music. On an Earth-like planet, the Doctor used his recorder to lure a robot to the TARDIS. (PROSE: The Sour Note) On Harmony, he used it to escape from his captors by playing it discordantly, having seen earlier that it caused them pain. (PROSE: Planet of Bones) In Prague, the Doctor combined his recorder with his sonic screwdriver to communicate with a Doredsor, enabling him to translate colour to binary to Solresol to musical notation and back again. (PROSE: The Time Eater) On Trodos, the Doctor used his recorder on a Dalek's hearing system, sending it out of control. (COMIC: The Trodos Ambush) On a swamp planet, he used it to stop giant spiders from attacking him and his companions. (COMIC: Master of Spiders) On prehistoric Earth, he used it to befriend a herd of mammoths and get them to destroy the Trods' power supply. (COMIC: Pursued by the Trods)

Later fate
Sarah Jane Smith discovered the Doctor's recorder in the TARDIS' secondary control room while traveling with the Fourth Doctor. (TV: The Masque of Mandragora)

Shortly before being sent back to his own time after an encounter with his five next incarnations, the First Doctor caught a glimpse of the Father of Time's attire beneath his robes, which included a scarf and a recorder — leading the Doctor to wonder just WHO the Father really was. (COMIC: The Test of Time)

Behind the scenes

 * In The Masque of Mandragora the recorder seems to be slightly, but only slightly, different from its original appearance, while in Castrovalva it appears to be a completely different prop.
 * It is however likely that the Doctor owned various different types of recorders. This seems to be supported by the fact that Sarah Jane Smith found it in the secondary control room and the Fifth Doctor found it on top of a full-body mirror in one of the hallways of the TARDIS, neither of which the Second Doctor had been seen in.

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