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Anthony Arnold, Baroque Recorders and Flutes. Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Born in 1956, I am a north-american francophone from Montréal, Québec, Canada. I am part of the pioneering group of musicians, who, here and in France (1975), participated in the first development of the performance of early music on period instruments. After my studies at the Université de Montréal, I completed my studies at the Conservatoire Royal de La Haye, en Hollande ( 1978-80 ).

I take time and great care in my flute making as did previous makers. Being a flautist, I also maintain the rhythm of a small production workshop each year. " (transl. ed.) Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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I have been rebuilding historical instruments for over 30 years. I have been working in various museums and private collections all over Europe and in the USA measuring and studying numerous historical instruments. I am now working for museums. After an education as fine mechanic I started to study musicology, information-theory and linguistics. My special field of interest was research of tone colours. Since 1973 I have been working for musicians and composers arond the world for whom I have invented and developed various sound generators. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"I have studied traverso at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague with Wilbert Hazelzet. I began making flutes in 1994, after a one year apprenticeship with Peter van der Poel. In the years 1995-1998 worked at the Gemeente Museum in The Hague, were I was compiling a catalogue of the Baroque flutes in the collection, as well as doing conservation work of various woodwinds. This was a wonderful opportunity to be in close contact with a relatively large collection of very interesting instruments and enabled me to appreciate the old makers' wonderful work at close hand. A lot of the flutes I copy are from this collection. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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Historical flute maker. Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Welcome to baroqueflutes.net, the homepage of Eugène Crijnen. Eugène was born in Holland in 1962 and started playing the flute at the age of 5 under the influence of Frans Brüggen and followed by master classes with Barthold Kuijken & Wilbert Hazelzet. Eugène started playing concerts all around the world at a young age and in 1983 he began making baroque flutes for himself. Many of the best flute players in the world now use his instruments. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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Bagpipe-maker. Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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Flute and recorder maker. Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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During the period from 1974 to 2001, a large number of Renaissance and early Baroque recorders as well as Bible regals was built.

Due to my appointment of June 2001 as a curator of the Musikhistorisk Museum in Copenhagen, I am not able to accept orders for new instruments; but retuning, revoicing and minor repairs will be undertaken by arrangement.

I graduated as an M.A. in music and mathematics in 1973. Detailed studies of extant historical instruments provided the basis for establishing the workshop in 1974. Parallel with my work as instrument maker I have been active as a teacher at numerous courses of early music in Germany and Denmark, with the subjects Renaissance consort music and recorder ensemble playing. Since 2001 I am employed as a curator by Musikhistorisk Museum, Copenhagen.

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“ .. . .the recorders I make today are replicas or near copies of the original instrument played in the baroque era.

It might seem unnecessary to make five alto instruments all in the same pitch, but I think we should maintain the diversity of the past. The stylistic differences between the various recorder makers were enormous, especially when they worked long distances from each other and were influenced by different musicians and composers of the day. 
    
That is why each instrument not only had it's own unique sound and look, but also it's own individual feel to it when played. We can sometimes only guess at the use made of a particular instrument by studying it's measurements. ..“ Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“Leif Eriksson's combination of true workmanship and a steady sense for style and instrument building knowledge is unique. Leif is one of the Swedish folk instrument makers' veterans. The interest for the newborn Swedish bagpipe is largely due to Leif and would be unthinkable without his pioneering work.

Leif Eriksson also makes hurdy-gurdies, nyckelharpas and other instruments.

He has satisfied customers not only in the Nordic countries but also in the rest of Europe, the US and even in Japan...“

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“ .. . In the 1930s Carl Dolmetsch completed the upper end of the family with the sopranino as well as producing recorders at modern pitch - until then all production had been at low pitch. Production at low and modern pitch continues side by side to the present day. The company continued making many kinds of hand-made early musical instruments (viols, lutes, harps, rebecs, harpsichords, spinets, clavichords, recorders, pipes and tabors, tambourin, psalteries, and so on). A delightful, though not wholly uncritical, description of the Dolmetsch workshop (as it was in 1947) is given by Frank Hubbard who, in that year, joined the firm as an apprentice.

The first Dolmetsch plastic recorders were manufactured in 1947, establishing the name in the area of educational musical instrument manufacture. More recently the Company has formed manufacturing and design associations with other manufacturers (including Coolsma in Holland - owned by Aafab b.v.) to broaden the range of instruments bearing the Dolmetsch name. However, the family (Jeanne Dolmetsch, Marguerite Dolmetsch and Brian Blood) continues to this day to play a central role designing, promoting and making, setting the standard of craftsmanship and reliability for which the company is justifiably famous. ..“

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“Terry McGee makes wooden flutes for Irish, early and classical music based on the best of original instruments, including the popular Rudall & Rose and Pratten's Perfected models.  Based in Malua Bay, New South Wales, Australia, Terry has been a flute maker since the mid seventies and exports his instruments to the four corners of the globe.

Terry's instruments are one-off craftsman-built instruments using the finest materials and a combination of traditional and modern techniques.  They show the benefit of the vast and continuing research he has undertaken in Australia and in collections around the world. The most rigorous attention to tuning makes his instruments the most precise and vibrant available, and incorporation of new techniques makes them far more rewarding to play than the best of the originals. On the practical side, he has developed a new tuning slide which does not cause splitting as did the traditional slide, and new key shapes to improve ease of playing.

Terry also makes replacement parts and carries out repairs and rebuilds for original instruments. This site includes extensive information on flute care, history, research, choosing a flute, fingering charts and links to other important flute resources. ..“

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“I study, make, and play historical transverse flutes, and write about the history of the flute and flute-playing.

After studying English at Magdalene College, Cambridge and baroque flute at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, I was a co-founder of Folkers & Powell, Makers of Historical Flutes in 1984. I received my Ph.D. in music from Cambridge University in 2004.

My research interests involve applying recent work in the sociology of culture and of technology (especially that done in Science and Technology Studies and empirical sociology) to questions in music history, with a particular focus on musical performance, instruments, and taste. My specialization is the history of the flute and flute-playing, particularly in the baroque and classical periods, and I have published studies of the writings and instruments of J. G. Tromlitz (1725-1805), a writer on flute-playing and an innovative flute maker as well as a noted virtuoso and a composer.

My work has been supported by awards including a Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and published in several books and a number of articles listed in detail on on another page.“

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Fridtjof Aurin  Transverse Flutes

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“On this website you will find pages devoted to two types of wind instruments, quite different, but ultimately close in many aspects. These are my two passions which I now devote my life to creating and which I offer to you.

Firstly, there are the baroque transverse flutes, also called traversos or one keyed flutes.

I offer several hand-made concert flutes, the perfect woodwind instrument for playing baroque music, in it’s varied styles and typical of that period.

In my work, I am looking to recreate the unique sound peculiar to the musical individuality of each of the baroque flute models that I offer and to provide an individual musical quality, sympathetic to the original sound. ..“

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“We build our Renaissance flutes in imitation of preserved originals and according to historical construction principles at the pitches of a=440 Hz or a=415 Hz, and in a single piece construction method. If requested, you may receive your Renaissance flute in two pieces, 0making it easier to transport. We use plumwood - and, when specially requested and at an extra charge, also European boxwood. ..“

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Early clarinet maker.

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Recorder maker.

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Bagpipe maker.

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Flute maker.

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“.. My objective has always been to recreate the sound of the instruments as they were in their original state.

My instruments are available in Boxwood, Maple, Cormier  or Grenadille. Boxwood can be a bit capricious and requires a special stabilization process. Its particular tone color makes it a favorite of recorder players. Grenadille, also known as  Mozambique Ebony, is a very stable wood from the Dalbergia family and is considered top-notch among tropical woods.    Compared to Black Ebony from Africa, it is very resistant to cracks. Maple is an amazing wood because its sound is velvety and powerful but is light in terms of weight. In addition, recorders made of maple are very resistant to the problems of condensation. Cormier is a wood from the Alisier family, a precious wood from our area.  It resembles pear wood, though harder and a little bit more dense.  It is not porous, which make it very appealing. ..“

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“This is the website of Mark W Venn and is concerned principally with early music in various manifestations. Current sections of the site deal with:

• Handmade renaissance woodwind instruments. Principal instruments made are the crumhorn and the cornamuse.
• Handmade recorder stands / other instrument stands
• Maintenance and minor repair work of instruments.
• Cotswold Early Music Festival (formerly the Cirencester Early Music Festival),
• The "Mozart"™  music software for developing high quality music scores,
• "The Waites of Gloucester", a renaissance consort, that also performs as "Her Majestie's Pleasure" ..“

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Shawms, curtals, baroque and classical bassoons and large baroque oboes made by Robert H. Cronin.

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“Wooden flutes maker specializing in Irish flutes, pennywhistles, military fifes, baroque flutes, renaissance fifes, folk flutes, piccolos, wooden whistles and tabor pipes.

We have been making wooden instruments since 1974 and are widely recognized as giving excellent value for your investment.”

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