Hello all!
My name is Evaldas, and I'm from Lithuania.
So OK, I don't know how to start , it may seem a bit weird , anyways, I'm a huge Dido fan, and she plays the recorder, I got very inspired by her and now I want to learn to play myself, I wanna play the same one as she does (I mean not the brand, not the model, but whether it's sopranino, soprano, alto or whatever...), here take a look at this:
http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb319/evaldas5211/vlcsnap-256734.png, this is hers, NOTICE that it's withouth the lowest part! It looks to me like an alto, but I'm not sure.
And what are the differences with all those altos and sofranos? Is alto written in different cleff? Is it more diffcult to play alto than the most common soprano? And which one is best for a beginner like me? How different is playing (fingering) between all those? Like lets say I take a written melody in treble cleff, how different the playing would be on those all? And I read that it's better for a beginner a baroque type over German, is that correct?

Soooooooooooooo?

seems like an Alto ive got one myself its not that hard and the fingering is pretty simple . Not to brag but i lerned to play in 1 day

That looks like a soprano to me, and alto and soprano is played in the treble cleff.

I think it's a soprano, it doesn't look big enough to be an alto, it looks quite small in her hands, unless she has big hands?

of course that I know Amazing grace. if you want, I could listen to it and right down the melody.

ad topic - well minding that Dido is a quite small girl it should be alto. I'd say that it's definitely not soprano. anyway, it'd be easier to say if we could even hear the track.