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

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Bagpipe-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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Historical flute maker. 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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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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"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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Anthony Arnold, Baroque Recorders and Flutes. Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"I have already dedicated a big part of my life to making instruments of the highest quality. My primary goal is to develop instruments based on originals rather than to make exact copies. All my instruments are to a large extend handmade, but more importantly they can also be custom-made. I can meet the individual wishes of the player and can fulfill the most professional needs. The player gets to know his/her instrument better than myself and that's why comment by the player is always welcome and will be considered. I sincerely hope you will find very useful information regarding such important things as care of your instrument, background info on kinds of wood, musea etc. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Chris Wilkes is a painstaking flute maker whose objective in working is to constantly improve and try to combine good playing characteristics and superior tone with fine craftsmanship, aesthetic design and ergonomic keywork. He is self taught and has been making flutes for the last 20 years based on master instruments of the early to mid-nineteenth century. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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Daniel Deitch Historical Woodwinds. Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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" Ray Sloan vividly remembers the day he first heard bagpipes other than the ubiquitous Great Highland Bagpipes. It was in 1964 as an 11 year old at school in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne when his Art Teacher emerged from the store room strapped in to an instrument driven by a flapping arm attached to bellows, that instrument was the Northumbrian Smallpipe. He remembers being absolutely smitten by the sound of the pipes at a time when the Beatles and Rolling Stones were the preferred sound of his generation, little did he know that 16 years later history would repeat itself when Ray himself became an Art Teacher and Piper/Pipemaker. That experience as a young boy never left Ray but it was not until as a young man of 24 that he was financially able to achieve his dream and buy a set of pipes.

It was as a fine maker of Northumbrian Smallpipes that Ray first established himself as a Pipemaker of International repute, but what really changed his life further was his introduction to the traditional music of Ireland played by the likes of ‘The Bothy Band’, ‘Planxty’ and ‘The Chieftains’, more specifically the wonderful and compelling sound of the Uilleann Pipes. After 10 years or so experience in making Smallpipes he embarked upon the next stage of his journey as a Pipemaker and started to make the Irish Uilleann Pipes eventually choosing to make these in preference to anything else.

Ray gave up Teaching to become a full-time professional Pipemaker in 1988 and to this day continues to develop his style and design in pursuit of perfection. The importance of his experience and training in Art & Design cannot be underestimated when it comes to making Pipes as his visual skills and attention to detail and design shine through in every aspect of his work. While being uniquely his own the design of his Uilleann Pipes is eclectic and broadly based upon the traditions and styles set by the old masters such as Coyne, kenna, Rowsome and Reid. Ray approaches each set of pipes he makes as completely individual and different in some small way to the previous, which means that you as a client will receive a set of Pipes hand-made for you personally.

Ray currently lives in SW France and is preparing to move to the West of Ireland this year – 2008. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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" ... Graduated from high school in 1960 (or was it 61) went, no not to a conservatory, but to University to study Mathematics. I have been a math's teacher some years and then worked as a mathematician in research in Industry . In my thirties I started trying to play the Traverso. Some sixteen years ago I did the evening joiners education. Bought a lathe. And from one thing to another I found that flute making was a professional vocation for me. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Offering fine antique & vintage flutes of the 19th and 20th centuries restored to playing condition, including traversi, flageolets, whistles, and other woodwinds and modern reproductions of historical instruments. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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Eric Weisrig, Bagpipe maker. See website for more information. (ed.)

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"I started making wooden flutes in 1994 and my interest rapidly expanded to include wooden whistles, low whistles and recorders. My thirst for information on woodwind instruments and their making led me to Matthew Dart's evening classes at the London Furniture College (now the London Guildhall University). Having had some 30 years experience in mechanical engineering, my progress was rapid, and very soon the new dicipline had completely taken over my life.

Today I make woodwinds of the flute family (Transverse flutes, recorders, whistles and low whistles) for customers all over the world. I make instruments based on originals from as early as the 13th century, including my own versions of the Gottingen recorder and Dordrecht recorder, I also make flutes and recorders based on those from the Renaissance period as well as my own designs of flute, whistle,low whistle and recorder for use by todays traditional musicians. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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" Eric Moulder and Tony Millyard have combined their research and manufacturing facilities to develop Baroque Bassoons at A=415hz. After a number of years of research and development we have produced two instruments which we are pleased to offer. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Thanks to our long-time cooperation with international musicians we have been able to continually improve the pitch and the efficiency of our instruments. We never forget about the characteristic sound and we are well aware that the perfect instrument has not been made yet. We see ourselves as mediators between the musician and his music.

Each of our instruments is 100% handmade and unique. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Luca de Paolis, holds a degree in musicology with honours from the Bologna University, moreover he specialized in musical paleography from the Renaissance Institute in Rome. He has studied recorder with Paolo Capirci and kees Boeke. He has published the commentary to a recently published facsimile of the treatise "La Fontegara" by Silvestro Ganassi (Rome, SIFD, 1991), traslate in Spanish on the "Revista flauta de Pico" (n° 8/9, 1997).and is the co-author with Kees Boeke of a transcription of the third volume of the Baldwin M.S. (Rome, Garamond, 1995).

He has collaborated with the "Kees Boeke Consort" in transcribing "Missa Tenor" of the Cod. 89, Castle of the Buonconsiglio - Treno (Italy). At the first time this composition was performed by the Hilliard Ensemble to Festival the "Bludenzer tage zeitgemasser musik '98 (Austria).

For over fifteen years, he produce and restore the historical recorders. He makes medioeval recorder in Pythagorean tune, renaissance recorders in Ganassi and Van Eyck styles, cylindrical bore recorders after those by P. Grece and Rafi in the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna, as wel as baroque recorders after Bressan, Denner, Stanesby Jr., Steenbergen and Hallett. Woods used include Italian box, ebony, maple, olive, pear, thorn bush and other fruitwoods. As constructor is particularly careful to the cure of the historical sound realized through one exact reproduction of the original voicing. His instruments are more and more appreciate to international vituosos musicians. " Visit website for more information. (ed)

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"John McCann has been making cornetts of the very highest quality in the United States and Europe since 1975. His production includes all members of the curved cornett family from cornettino through bass as well as straight and mute cornetts.

The instruments are designed on the basis of detailed study or are replicas of originals in major European collections.They are offered in either modern pitch (a=440 Hz) or in the original, normally high, pitch (a=466 Hz).

Because of their uncompromising quality, John's cornetts have found wide acceptance among leading professional and amateur cornett players. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"We are your market for new and used high-quality recorders and accessories. All sizes of recorder are available for sale: sopranino, soprano, alto, voice flute, tenor, and bass. If there is a particular instrument you don't find on this site just contact me and we will try to order it. If you are not playing a former favorite our commission for consignment instruments is just 20% (for instruments $1000 and up, 25% for $500-999, and 30% for under $500) and we usually get a good price because of the quality we offer and our trial period return policy. We may also be able to purchase your instrument or collection outright, but the price is generally lower than the amount you would get if we sold it on consignment. Please feel free to browse and listen to the sound files for the instruments while you admire the visual details in the photos. More sound files will be added soon. " There are also 2 recorder workshops held yearly as well as some manuscript and recorder methods for sale.

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"Philippe Bolton graduated from Lille Conservatory in France in 1975 with a gold medal. He then established himself as a recorder maker, preferring to live from this type of activity rather than playing.

He has exhibited his instruments in many European countries (particularly Austria, Germany, Holland and the United Kingdom), in Australia, USA and Japan. He exports about half his production outside France. Over the years he has developed a several different types of recorders, of which some are "copies" and others entirely of his own design. In 1980 he became a "Maître Artisan" (Master Craftsmen) and the next year he won the "Grand Prix Régional des Métiers d'Art”) for the Provence region of France.

His production ranges from reconstructions of medieval recorders to pre-baroque and baroque instruments. He has also recently developed an electroacoustic recorder for widening the instrument’s repertoire towards jazz and contemporary music.

He has taught recorder making on various occasions in Australia, in Belgium and in France. " Well designed and informative site. Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"I am Peter van der Poel and I make wooden wind instruments: recorders, clarinets and oboes. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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