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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 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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"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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"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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"Jean-Luc Boudreau has been making recorders since 1980, after having studied science and music! His main interest is the development of instruments inspired by early recorders found in various collections. These handmade recorders are classified into two families, baroque and renaissance, and allow all repertoire written for the recorder to be explored.

Two years ago we added a line of "whistles", diatonic instruments to play folk repertoire. And there's more to come...

As well, the workshop does a lot of research into manufacturing methods using the latest technology, and offers its expertise for specific projects related to the manufacture of wind instruments. " See 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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"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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"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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"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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Recorder maker. Visit website for more informations. (ed.)

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" ... At that time there was a great deal of interest in making more historically based instruments and I jumped directly onto the bandwagon of the authentic movement. I read all that was written about old recorders and visited as many museums and collections as I could, playing, measuring and photographing their originals. I had additional tuition from Eric Moulder and Graham Lyndon-Jones, who were both professional woodwind makers and part time lecturers at the college. I think it was quite early on that I realised I would have to travel if I were to make a business out of recorder making. The recorder scene in England was very large but extremely amateur and from a playing point of view, not nearly as wonderful as I had at first thought. So I travelled a lot in Europe, visiting both museums and music conservatories, learning about the original recorders at the same time as trying to develop contacts with players. This practice carried on long after I had finished my course at the LCF in 1982 and had established my first workshop in Reykjavik. My contacts with players were essential, to give me the necessary feedback on my work, which as a rotten player, I was unable to judge for myself. Even now, with twenty years experience, I still rely a great deal on the opinions of my customers, to help me develop my work. ... " 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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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" 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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"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 Weisrig, Bagpipe maker. See 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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" ... 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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" 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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Daniel Deitch Historical Woodwinds. 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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