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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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Added on: Mar 30, 2008 | Hits: 491

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

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“Richard Seraphinoff has been producing accurate copies of 18th and 19th century horns since 1983. His Baroque and Classical model orchestra horns are played regularly by hornists in period instrument ensembles throughout the United States, as well as in ensembles in Europe, Scandinavia, Japan, and elsewhere.

The various models cover music from Bach and Handel, through Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven, into the early Romantic period, including the early valve horn.

His concept of making historical horns is that of making a fine playing instrument, copied as directly and meticulously as possible from an original from a specific period, with as few compromises and alterations as possible. Using measurements from the original, and traditional handworking methods and materials, an instrument is made that functions well in the type of ensemble or setting for which it was intended, and makes a sound that would have been familiar to, and respected by, the players and composers who originally used the instrument.“

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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 have been making replicas of historical bassoons since 1984 and modern bassoon bocals since 1993. The following pages contain information on current models.

These instruments are all handmade to order with most models offering a choice of wood, various tuning options, and custom requests such as silver keywork. Delivery times vary depending on the length of my waiting list and can be estimated when an order is placed. Please inquire about pricing and deposits, or write for any further information.

In addition, I very much enjoy, and am available for, restoration work of all kinds.

Along with workshop activities, this site also includes some notes and measurements - for which I would welcome any comments - as well as a glimpse of the work I do as a performer/composer/instrument builder.“

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Added on: May 27, 2011 | Hits: 266

"I carry garklein, sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, bass, great bass, contrabass, subgreatbass and subcontrabass recorders by Aesthe, Dolmetsch, Ralf Ehlert, Küng, Moeck, Mollenhauer, Paetzold and Yamaha. I have gemshorns, Moeck historical woodwinds, optimized crumhorns, as well as Wendy Gillespie (Lu-Mi) and Charlie Ogle Chinese viols and vielles by Puchalski. I also have Baroque and modern violins, violas and cellos. Sheet music, music stands and other accessories are also available. " ...

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“While the first instrument I played was the modern oboe, the first instruments I made were harpsichords and organs. A talent for metal and woodworking as well as an attraction to early music led me to recreating woodwinds of the past. It was 1973 and I bought a metal lathe and designed and made my first instruments: cornamuse and bagpipes. The pipes were born of the revelation that, according to the iconography, pipes were played all over the Old World and in a multitude of forms. I remember the first thing I played, the Cantiga #1 of the Cantigas de Sancta Maria. It was a hit! No one had thought of using a bagpipe, in spite of the pipers dancing in the marginalia!

In the same period I bought a milling machine and started designing and making cane processing machines, profilers, shapers, and tooling for other makers. In 1983 I started working for Levin Historical Instruments and was introduced to and made a full array of woodwinds: bassoon, dulcian, clarinet, oboe, shawm, and recorders. In 1993 Leslie Ross, the bassoon maker, and I set up shop in New York City.

When I am finished with an instrument hopefully it will look beautiful. But it is the collaboration with a growing number of fine musicians who are further gifted with an understanding of bore and tone holes that turns my work into musical instruments!

Joel “

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"Folkers & Powell make professional-quality baroque flutes and other historical transverse flutes closely modeled on excellent original designs from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

We believe that music, instruments, and playing styles are all interconnected, so that music has the best effect when realized with sympathy, using instruments and performance conventions current when it was created.

For this reason we make every effort to capture the unique qualities of tone and intonation in the original instruments we copy. Since our partnership began in 1984 our flutes have earned a worldwide reputation for uncompromising accuracy and faithfulness of spirit. Our customers range all the way from beginners on the baroque flute to the world's leading exponents.

Research on contemporary music and playing styles also plays a large part in our work. We have built a separate educational site at flutehistory.com to give information on historical matters not directly related to the flutes we make.

If you are new to the world of historical flutes, begin at our start page. If you would like help staying in touch with the latest ideas and research, we suggest you subscribe to the quarterly newsletter TRAVERSO. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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

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"I promised in The Keyed Flute by Johann George Tromlitz (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996, p. 261) to make available the index of flute information I compiled for that study. You are welcome to make use of it, as long as you send me new material and correct any mistakes you find. Please note that I am not systematically updating or improving the database: it's presented here, for what it's worth, in form and content already 10 years out of date. If anyone would like to make an ongoing project of it, please contact me.

The database file contains listings for about 1800 instruments, with details of attribution, maker's mark, materials, keys, and reports in the literature. (My own copy also lists drawings made by other researchers, and materials (drawings, photos, mouldings) in the collection of Folkers & Powell.) " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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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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"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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Handmade flutes and headjoints in wood and precious metals.

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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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“ .. . 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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"Christopher Monk was amongst the first to make reconstructions of the cornett (or cornetto), the highly regarded virtuoso wind instrument whose top players commanded higher fees than any others in the early seventeenth century. He put cornetts in the hands of the late David Munrow and, largely through Munrow’s Early Music Consort of London, the cornetto began to regain its former popularity. It is now played at amateur and professional levels across the world from New Zealand to New York, heard with increasing frequency at major music festivals and enjoys excellent and increasing representation on recordings. " 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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" 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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"Supplying Highland, Border and small pipe ferrules and ferrule sets, in plain and beaded formats in Brass, Nickel alloy and Sterling silver, also horn dowelling and antler pieces for small & provincial pipe sizings.    Huge stock holding, catering to pipe trade in Scotland and North America. Visit related site: Highland Horn Ltd."

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

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