recorder player vs musician

recorder player and musician both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
recorder player	Yes	No	No	No
musician	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, musician is a hypernym of recorder player; that is, musician is a word with a broader meaning than recorder player:

Other hypernyms of recorder player include instrumentalist, player.

recorder player (noun)	musician (noun)
someone who plays the recorder	artist who composes or conducts music as a profession
	someone who plays a music as a profession