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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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Bagpipe maker.

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"Peter Noy has long dedicated himself to making flutes in wood. The finest quality materials, meticulous craftsmanship and intelligent, balanced design are combined to create beautiful instruments, sought after world-wide for their sound. " Visit 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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"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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" 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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"Adriana Breukink started playing the recorder at the age of nine. As a teenager, she already wanted to be a recorder maker, but there was no appropriate training available. When she was sixteen she went to the Conservatory in Rotterdam, and three years later she went to the Royal Conservatory at The Hague. There she studied recorder with Ricardo Kanji and Frans Bruggen. During her last year she took a course with Fred Morgan in making recorders, in the Conservatory workshop.

For many years she has been known for making Renaissance Consorts and Ganassi recorders, and she sends these to top soloists, ensembles and conservatories all over the world. In recent years, she has developed many new instruments, such as the Slide Recorder for Moeck, and the Dream Soprano, Dream Alto and Dream Tenor for Mollenhauer. The Dream bass is currently in development. One of her recent recorders is the 3 metre (10 foot) long Sub-contrabass in Bb. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Sand Dalton began playing the baroque oboe in 1975 after graduating from the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied modern oboe with Allan Vogel. A year later he made his first instrument and began an extensive and on-going study of historical oboes which has taken him to many museums and private collections both in Europe and North America.

Concurrently, he has pursued an active career as a performer and teacher. Over the years he has performed and recorded with many ensembles, including the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Boston Baroque, the Handel and Haydn Society, Magnificat, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Seattle Baroque and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra of Vancouver, B.C. His long experience playing in baroque orchestral and chamber music has provided him with an ideal 'laboratory' in which to test and refine his ideas about making good musical instruments.

He has been of the faculties of the New England Conservatory, the University of British Columbia and Longy School of Music, as well as taught at the summer workshops for the San Francisco Early Music Society, Vancouver Early Music Program, Amherst Early Music Workshop and the International Baroque Institute at Longy. In 2000 be began directing his own summer workshop for baroque oboes and bassoons on Lopez Island in Washington State.

Described by CBC Radio as "one of the leading baroque oboists in North America whose fine instruments are played around the world." Sand Dalton is dedicated to making oboes of the highest musical and technical standard. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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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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"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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Early clarinet maker.

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

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Recorder maker. Visit website for more informations. (ed.)

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

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"Saunders Recorders is an independent retail store managed by John Everingham F.T.C.L. The business was founded by Gordon Saunders, (who is now enjoying retirement in sunny Spain) some twenty-nine years ago.

The high street shop is now closed but the business continues.

You will find a very comprehensive listing of recorders and music, mostly available for immediate delivery. " See website for more information. (ed.)

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Flute maker.

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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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Eric Weisrig, Bagpipe maker. See 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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"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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"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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" 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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“ .. . .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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