Details
| Maker | Country | Address | Telephone | Fax | WWW | Instruments | Notes | |
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| AAFAb BV-NL | Netherlands | Jeremiestraat 4-6, NL-3511 TW Utrecht | +31 (0)30 231 63 93 | +31 (0)30 231 23 50 | [email protected] | https://www.aafab.nl/ | Manufacture Aura, Conservatorium, Coolsma, Zamra and some Dolmetsch recorders. Some of the Coolsma instruments are available in imitation ivory. Offer their own series of Coolsma Millenium square-profile bass recorders in C and sub-bass in F, presumably modelled on the Dolmetsch Millenium instruments. | |
| Aakre, Arne | Norway | 890 Ytre Vinje | [email protected] | Maker of sjøfløyte (seflute,a kind of folk recorder). | ||||
| Aesthé [Aesthe] | Canada | Jean-Luc Boudreau, 205 Sunnyside, Rosemère, Québec J7A 1N7 | +1 450 979-6091, 1-888-979-6091 (toll free in America) | +1 450 979-4551 | [email protected] | https://www.boudreau-flutes.ca/ | Renaissance & baroque-style recorders at A=440 & 415 Hz. | |
| American Music Recorders | United States of America (USA) | 1-piece plastic recorders. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | |||||
| Ammann, Heinz | Switzerland | Schönenwerdweg 10, CH-8832 Wollerau | +41 1687 2496 | +41 1784 9728 | [email protected] | http://www.heinz-ammann.ch/ | Ganassi-style recorders; baroque recorders after Aardenberg, Boekhout, Bressan, Haka, Heerde, Jacob Denner, Rottenburgh, Schell, Stanesby Sr, Stanesby Jr, Reich, Terton. | |
| Andreola, Giacomo | Italy | Via 4 Novembre 51, 23100 Sondrio | +39 0342 214739 | +39 0342 214739 | [email protected] | https://www.instagram.com/meisterjakob47/?hl=en | Van Eyck (transitional) recorders; alto baroque recorders after Bressan, Denner, Stanesby and Steenbergen (at 415 / 440 Hz); voice flute after Bressan & Denner (at 415 Hz). | The instruments are built with a lot of passion and great attention to detail. They are notable for their refined appearance (other than boxwood, ebony and amboina-briar wood is used for elegant contrast). The homogenity of their sound tends to a lovely dark colour, rich in harmonics, precise in pitch, and with easy response in every register. Andreola also offers recorders with a specially constructed beak (copied from a brilliant idea of the famous recorder maker Claude Monin) which allows one to change the windway as needed, offering many advantages. |
| Angel Musical Instrument Co., Ltd | Republic of Korea | 46 Jakhyeon-gil (Songsan-dong) Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do | +82 31 2341004 | +82 31 2059011 | [email protected] | https://angelco.en.ec21.com/company_info.html/ | Manufacture an outstanding range of inexpensive plastic recorders, including instruments in neo-renaissance and neo-baroque style including black with white mounts, transparent with coloured mounts and simulated wood-grain. Also manufacture plastic recorders for a number of other makers. Bass recorders are available in bocal or knick-system designs. | |
| Arnold, Anthony | United Kingdom (UK) | 47 Church Street, Bramcote, Nottingham NG9 3HD | +44 0115 922 6631 | Renaissance & baroque recorders after Bressan, Beukers, Denner & Stanesby. | ||||
| Arpin, Joël | France | 104, rue de Moulignon, F - 77860 Quincy-Voisins | +33 (0)1 60 04 82 71 | +33 (0)1 60 04 82 71 | [email protected] | http://joel.arpin.free.fr/ | Baroque recorders after Terton (sopranino and soprano), Bressan (alto), Denner (voice-flute); early baroque alto recorders (Bassano style) at 415 or 440 Hz. | |
| Aulos | Japan | Toyama Musical Instruments Co. Ltd, 41 Ohara-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 174-0061 | +81 3 9608305 | +81 3 5916 2877 | [email protected] | https://aulos.jp/en/ | Plastic recorders, also fifes and baroque flutes | Trademark of Toyama Musical Instruments. |
| Aura | Netherlands | AAFAb BV-NL, Jeremiestraat 4, 3511 TW Utrecht | +31 0302 31693 | +31 0302 312350 | [email protected] | http://www.aafab.nl/ | Neo-baroque recorders. | Trademark of AAFAb. |
| Harmony | United States of America (USA) | West Music, 1212 Fifth St, Coralville, IA 52241 | +1 319-351-2000 | +1 888-470-3942 | https://www.westmusic.com/ | Plastic and wooden recorders. | ||
| Bariaux, Daniel | Belgium | Avenue Buysdell 38, 1180 Bruxelles | +32 02 374 1688 | Baroque- and renaissance-style recorders to his own designs. | Working with his wife, Annie Sturbois. | |||
| Bartlett Historical Woodwinds | United States of America (USA) | 7130 Maryland Ave, St Louis MO 63130 | Baroque recorders. | I welcome further details of this maker. | ||||
| Bartram Historical Woodwinds, James F.B Bartram Jr | United States of America (USA) | 605 NE 6th St, Coupeville, WA 98239 | +1 360-678-9272 | [email protected] | http://www.bartramrecorders.com/ | North American warranty service representative for Küng recorders. | Jim is now undertaking recorder re-voicing for any recorders, including those he made while still an active maker. He plans to recommence recorder-making shortly. | |
| Beaudin, Jean-François | Canada | 75 Principale, Frelighsburg, Quebec JOJ1CO | +1 450- 298-5161 | [email protected] | http://www.flutebeaudin.com/Home.html/ | Early French baroque recorders by Depuis (alto A=415 Hz, tenor in C at A=392 & 415 Hz), Rippert (alto at A=392 Hz). Also makes baroque flutes by Quantz, Rippert and Lecler. | Jean-François Beaudin is a player and maker of early flutes and recorders who has gained an international reputation through his drawings of original instruments and his reproductions of them. He has played the recorder since he was 9 and the flute since he was 20, completed a degree at the University of Montréal (Quebec) in 1978, and from 1978 to 1980 studied the recorder with Michael Barker and Ricardo Kanji, and traverso with Bart Küyken at The Hague Conservatory (Netherlands). In order to pursue his studies of the music of Hotteterre and composers of his time, Jean-François made a reconstruction of an alto recorder by Dupuis. This led to further reproductions after originals by Wijne Stanesby Jnr, Bressan, Bizey and Ganassi. During his time in Holland, Jean-François met and studied with the Australian recorder maker Fred Morgan and continued his work with him in Daylesford, Victoria during 1986. More recent collaborations have been with Olivier Cottet and Marc Ecochard, and Philippe Bolton in the south of France. He is currently working towards a reconstruction of a tenor recorder by Stanesby Jr. | |
| Bel Canto | Japan | 41, Oharracho, Itabashi-Kui, Tokio 17, Tokyo | Plastic recorders (sopranino & soprano). | Trademark of Toyama Musical Instruments Co. Ltd. who also manufacture Aulos recorders. | ||||
| Bellwood Violin & Recorder Repair Stephen Bacon | United States of America (USA) | 330 E Hersey #11, Ashland OR 97250-1217 | +1 (541)482-1436 | [email protected] | https://bellwoodviolin.com/ | Transitional recorders after Kynsecker; baroque recorders after Bressan & Stanesby Jr; 1-piece student soprano recorders. | Also carries out original instrument restoration. | |
| Ture Bergstrøms Instrumentbyggeri | Denmark | Brinken 68, Mogenstrup, DK-4700 Næstved | +45 55 77 43 00 (landline) & +45 26 44 92 29 (mobile) | [email protected] | http://www.bergstrom.dk/ | Reproduction renaissance recorders closely based on surviving museum instruments, scaled to A=440 Hz, meantone tuning, with historical fingering (sopranino to contrabass). Also a van Eyck soprano in c'', after the Rosenborg Castle instruments. | ||
| Bernolin, Vincent | France | 546 route d'Usclas, 34230 Paulhan, France | +33 06 86 71 42 38 | [email protected] | http://www.bernolin.fr/ | Renaissance-style recorders after Bassano, Raffi, Ganassi & van Eyck; baroque recorders after Bressan, Denner & Stanesby. | Has also developed Allegro, a construction process which prevents condensation in the windway. | |
| Bleazey, Phil G. | United Kingdom (UK) | Old Furness Street Stables, Lancaster LA1 5Qz | +44 01524 849085 | [email protected] | http://www.bleazey.co.uk/intro.html | Medieval & renaissance recorders; also flutes, whistles & percussion. | ||
| Blezinger, Stephan | Germany | Karl-Marx-Strasse 8, D-99817 Eisenach | +49 03691 21 23 46 | +49 03691 21 23 48 | [email protected] | http://www.blezinger.de/ | Transitional recorders after Kynseker; Ganassi recorders; Baroque recorders after Bressan, J. Denner, Stanesby Jr, Steenbergen, Wijne. | Blezinger's alto recorder after J. Denner received the German Musical Instruments Award 1996. Stephan is assisted by Thomas Schremmer. |
| Boehm, Thomas C. | United States of America (USA) | 100 Morningside Ave, Madison W51716 | +1 (608) 9290 | Renaissance style recorders; baroque recorders after Steenbergen & Bressan; modern recorders in wood or plexiglass. | No longer makes recorders. Current contact details unknown. | |||
| Bogaert, Michel van den | Netherlands | Westerse Drift 59, 9752 LC Haren | +31 50 5424588 | [email protected] | Amateur recorder maker who reports: Although I am very enthusiastic, at the moment I am not very productive. I have been busy with an exact copy of a Bressan alto from the Brüggen collection and with a 415 Hz version of the same recorder. | |||
| Bolton, Philippe | France | 22 Le Grand Portail, F-84570 Villes sur Auzon | +33 4 90 61 86 11 | +33 4 90 61 97 82 | [email protected] | https://www.flute-a-bec.com/ | Medieval recorders; Ganassi recorders; transitional (pre-baroque) soprano and g' alto recorders after Haka (Edinburgh University Collection) 440 & 415 & 466 Hz and tenor after an anonymous Italian instrument in Vienna 440 & 466 Hz; baroque recorders after Bizey, Hotteterre, Stanesby Jr, Wijne; electro-acoustic recorder. | |
| Boudreau, Jean-Luc | Canada | 367, de la Briquade, Blainville, Quebec, Canada J7C 2C7 | +1 450 979-6091 | +1 450 979-4551 | [email protected] | http://www.boudreau-flutes.ca/ | Medieval recorders; transitional recorders after Ganassi, Bassano, van Eyck; baroque recorders after Denner, Steenbergen, Bressan, Debey; Aesthé recorders. | |
| Bouterse, Jan | Netherlands | Sandenburg 29, 2402 Rj Alphen, A/D Rijn | +31 0172 445957 | +31 0172 445957 | [email protected] | http://www.mcjbouterse.nl/ | Transitional recorders; baroque recorders after Wijne, Terton, Beukers, Steenbergen. | |
| Brown, Adrian | Netherlands | Landstraat 6, 7126AT Bredevoort | +31 648 115 476 | +31 020 668 7283 | [email protected] | https://www.adrianbrown.org/ | Virdung/Agricola recorders. Renaissance recorders after various makers; baroque recorders after Bizey, Denner & Stanesby Jr. | |
| Burnett, Timothy | United States of America (USA) | 10 Hancock Street, Winchester MA 01890 | +1 617 721 1583 | Baroque recorders. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | |||
| Cambridge | United States of America (USA) | 3800 Kelley Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44114 | Plastic recorders. | Trademark of Trophy. | ||||
| Brian, Carlick | United Kingdom (UK) | Barn Cottage, Church Lane, Charlton on Otmoor, Kidlington, OX5 2UA | +44 01865 331493 | https://brcarlick.wordpress.com/ | Medieval & baroque recorders; 3-holed pipes. Undertakes maintainance of pipe organs and tuning of harpsichords in and around Oxfordshire. | |||
| Canto | Plastic recorders. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | ||||||
| Chen Han Co., Plastic Musical Instruments Factory Co., Ltd | Taiwan | No. 26, Lane 375, Huacheng Rd, Xinzhuang District, New Taipei City Taiwan 242 | +886 2-8522 1522 | +886 2-8522 5533 | [email protected] | http://www.chenhan.com.tw/ | Neo-baroque and German-fingered plastic recorders, some in bright colours. | Manufacture recorders for other brands and to custom designs. Also produce pan flutes. |
| Choroi Instrumentenbau | Switzerland | St. Urbanstrasse 23, CH 4901 Langenthal | (+41)(0)62 963 1143 | (+41)(0)62 963 1147 | [email protected] | https://www.choroi.org/ | Products include: - diatonic c flute with either simple or German fingering - pentatonic flute d''-e''-g''-a'''-b'''-d''''-e''''. - interval flute with only one finger hole & two notes each. 3 tunings: d''-g'', d''-a'', e''-b''. | Choroi instruments are designed to make pentatonic music in groups. The distinctive features of the Choroi flutes are their mild, light and flexible tone and a correspondingly simple, sculpted form. They are made of wood, each in one piece. The mellow tone makes them especially suitable for group playing. The Interval and Pentatonic Flutes were created to fill the need for high quality wind instruments in pedagogical work with younger children. With their simple scales they are ideal for improvisation, individually or in a group. Other flutes at lower pitches are available. There are also Alto (F) and Tenor (C) Flutes, as well as an A Flute (slightly larger than the C Flute) and a solo D Flute. |
| Malvern Recorders Gary Cook | United States of America (USA) | 3393 O'Hara Drive, Beavercreek, OH 45434 | +1 937 427 1396 | [email protected] | Medieval, renaissance, Ganassi, transitional and baroque recorders. | |||
| Marsyas Blockflöten Gmbh | Switzerland | Schönenwerdweg 10, CH-8832 Wollerau | +41 1 687 2498 | +41 1 784 9728 | [email protected] | https://www.kueng-blockfloeten.ch/en/ | Neo-baroque consort recorders (SATB) designed by Heinz Ammann, manufactured by Andreas & Thomas Küng, voiced and tuned by Christoph Trescher. | The same team have recently developed a new line which they call Heitz. |
| Terry McGee, Terry | Australia | 35 Bunderra Circuit, Malua Bay, NSW, 2536 Australia | +61 (0)2 4471 3837 | +61 (0)2 6287 4263 | [email protected] | http://www.mcgee-flutes.com/ | Terry is a flute-maker who offers a wide range of services to recorder players, including replacing worn tenon cork, repair of splits and cracks, rebushing thumb holes, repolishing bores and windways, sharpening flat recorders, fixing loose blocks, replacing pads, fixing keys, etc. Terry also makes custom fitted, lined cases for woodwind instruments. | |
| Meinel Blockflöten [René Schlagel] | Germany | Schönbacher Str. 14, 08258 Markneukirchen OT Eubabrunn | +49 (0)37422/6163 | +49 (0)37422/6163 | [email protected] | http://www.meinel-blockfloeten.de | School recorders and baroque recorders. | Meinel recorders seem to be made by René Schlagel who is the owner of the business. Schlagel began his career with his grandfather Helmut Meinel in 1984 and founded the current workshop in 1986. Other instruments offered include school and baroque recorders, penatonic recorders, whistles (6-holed pipes, bird calls, etc. |
| Meisterwerkstatt für Blockflötenbau | Germany | Buttlarer Str. 13, D-36093 Künzell | +49 (0)661 30 20 97 | +49 (0)661 30 25 98 | Renaissance recorders; early baroque recorders. | Also undertake repairs. | ||
| Meyenburg, Jürgen | Germany | Â Lethenbergweg 25, D - 53332 Bornheim | +49 2227 929963 | [email protected] | Renaissance recorders; baroque recorders after Bressan, Terton, etc. | |||
| Meyerrecorders GmbH | Switzerland | Grundschwendistr. 3 9633 Bächli (Hemberg) | +41 76 348 23 20 | [email protected] | https://meyerrecorders.swiss/ | Baroque recorders after Pierre Jaillard Bressan and Jacob Denner. | Sadly, Ernst Meyer (b. 1954) passed away on 4 June 2016. His work is continued by his sons Sebastian and Joel, together with Madeleine Imbeck. | |
| Miller, Jürgen & Susan Anderson | Canada | Medieval recorders. | No longer active. I would appreciate additional and missing data on these makers. | |||||
| Moeck Music Instrumente und Verlag | Germany | Lückenweg 4, 29227 Celle Postfach 3131, 29227 Celle | +49 (05141) 8853-0 | +49 (05141) 8853-42 | [email protected] | https://www.moeck.com/en/recorders/ | Products include: - Plastic Recorders (Flauto I) - Plastic head with wood body recorders (Flauto I Plus) - Standard (Flauto Leggero) Recorders (now discontinued) - Rondo Recorders (the alto, tenor and bass have curved windways, but not the soprano) - Rottenburgh Recorders (modern with baroque profile) - Renaissance Recorders (modern design, wide bore) - Denner Recorders (at 440 Hz) - Steenbergen Recorders (at 440 and 415 Hz) - Stanesby Recorders (at A=440 and 415 Hz) - Hotteterre Tenor Recorder (after historic originals but at A440, two-and-a-half-octave range) - Kynsekker Recorders, renaissance-style instruments for consort use (a A=440 Hz) - Renaissance Consort recorders, based on instruments in the Hofburgmuseum, Vienna. - Slide Recorder (designed by Adriana Breukink, based on so-called Ganassi recorders, but incorporating a sliding mouthpice operated by the player's lower lip which alters the dimensions of the windway for the production of dynamics) - Ehlert alto recorder, a strong-toned instrument to play with piano or other modern instruments - Pentatonic soprano recorder (Flauto Penta). | Hermann (Johannes) Moeck sen. (1896-1982) founded the firm in 1930 in Celle. In 1948, his son Hermann (Alexander) Moeck (1922-2010) joined the firm and in 1960 became the sole owner. The business grew and in 1962 it moved to new premises in Altencelle near Celle. At the end of 2002, Dr. Hermann Moeck retired and passed on the family firm to his daughter, Sabine Haase-Moeck, who ran it together with her husband, Dr. Ronald Haase until 2014. In June 2014, as managing partner, she appointed her son, Jan Nikolai Haase and her nephew, Florian Haase as managing/executive directors. Since then, they have managed and led the business together in the fourth generation. |
| Conrad Mollenhauer GmbH | Germany | Weichselstraße 27, 36043 Fulda | +49 (0661) 9467-0 | +49 (0661) 9467-36 | [email protected] | http://www.mollenhauer.com/ | Products include: -Swing, all plastic recorder with specially designed headjoint. -Prima, school recorder with wooden body and plastic headjoint (as for Swing) in waterblue, red and sand colours - Student, wooden school recorder - Chorus, standard range from sopranino to great-bass - Denner, modern recorders in baroque style, different woods - Denner / Morgan Edition recorders in baroque style, various woods. - Dream, transitional style recorder of simple external design, in collaboration with Adriana Breukink; soprano model in plastic or natural wood, stained blue or red with painted mounts; alto model in natural wood or ebony only; tenor in natural wood only. - Maarten Helder, contemporary alto & tenor recorders. - Kynsecker, renaissance recorders (garklein to greatabass) - Ganassi (alto in g') - Baroque, generic instruments after an original alto recorder by Jacob Denner (1681-1735) in the Nürnberg Germanisches Museum - Baroque-style alto recorders with an adjustable block (patented by Rudolf Strathmann) - Modern alto recorder, a remarkable instrument with a range of three and a half fully chromatic octaves from f' to c''', originally a collaboration between Joachim Paetzold, the renowned recorder maker in Tübingen, and the virtuoso recorder player Nicolaj Tarasov, further developed and refined in the Mollenhauer workshop. Also available with an extended E foot (3 keys). -One-handed soprano recorders, keyed models for players who are physcially challenged. | |
| Murphy, Stuart | United States of America (USA) | Rt 7 Box 250, Conroe TX 77384 | +1 409 321 2885 | Renaissance recorders. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | |||
| Nieuwland, Hans | Netherlands | Slotmakersstraat 14, 8911 GM Leeuwarden | +31 (0)58 212 3184 | Ganassi recorders; baroque recorders after Bressan, Bizey & Denner. | ||||
| Norfolk, Douglas | United Kingdom (UK) | 26 St Peters Rd, Coggeshall, Essex CO6 1SR | [email protected] | Baroque recorders | Now concentrates on baroque flutes. | |||
| Peter Noy Flutes | United States of America (USA) | 1029 NE 69th Street, Seattle, Washington 98115 | +1 206 729-1903 | +1 206 729-1903 | [email protected] | http://www.noyflutes.com/ | Has made medieval recorders; renaissance & transitional recorders after originals in Vienna, van Eyck, Bassano and Wollick. | Now concentrates on transverse flutes. |
| Coomber-Klitgaard, David | New Zealand (NZ) | 10b Alma Street, Te Atatu South, Auckland | +64 9837 6133 | 64 9837 6144 | [email protected] | Renaissance recorders; transitional recorders after Kynseker; Ganassi recorders; baroque recorders after Steenbergen, Bressan, Denner, Stanesby, Wijne, Rottenburgh, Debey. Also manufactures Fern recorders. | David Coomber-Klitgaard has been making recorders for 22 years. He started making in Holland while studying recorder at the Royal Conservatorium in the Hague, and the Stedelijk Conservatorium in Zwolle. Frederick Morgan gave several classes in recorder making at the Royal Conservatorium while he was in Europe in 1978. One of David Coomber's greatest assets as a maker is his experience as a player and performer. He teaches the recorder to postgraduate level at Auckland University's School of Music. David's philosophy is to make the best quality recorders and that no recorder leaves the workshop unless it is up to the standards demanded of a professional instrument. David is always prepared to work alongside musicians to ensure the recorder they purchase meets their demands. In 2014 David started a new career and decided to stop recorder making. | |
| Coolsma | Netherlands | AAFAB, Jeremiestraat 4-6, 3511 TW Utrecht | +31 (0)30 2316393 | +31 0302 312350 | [email protected] | https://www.aafab.nl/ | Trademark of AAFAb. | Trademark of AAFAb. |
| Cottet, Olivier | France | Le Bois des Prés, 28410 Boutigny Prouais | +33 (0)2 37 65 13 96 | [email protected] | https://www.maitresdart.fr/olivier-cottet-16/parcours-et-realisatio | Baroque recorders, under the trademark Foret-Bruno. Also makes clarinets, flutes, oboes and bassoons. | ||
| Tim Cranmore Recorders | United Kingdom (UK) | 23 Lower Chase Road, Malvern, Worcestershire WR14 2BX | +44 (0)7761 660 244 (mobile) | [email protected] | https://www.fippleflute.co.uk/ | Medieval recorders after the Tartu Recorder; renaissance recorders; Ganassi-style recorders; baroque recorders after Bizey, Bressan, Denner, Haka, Hotteterre, Oberlender, Rottenburgh, Stanesby Jnr. | ||
| Dawson, Michael | United Kingdom (UK) | C/- Piers Adams, Rotten Row, Lewes, E. Sussex BN7 1TD | +44 01273 474463 | +44 01273 474463 | Neo-baroque recorders from sopranino to tenor, including instruments in Ab, G, Eb and D (voice flute). Dawson's recorders are similar in design to the old-style Dolmetsch models. | |||
| Deerenburg, Baldrick | Netherlands | Utrecht | [email protected] | Makes recorders for himself. | Repairs and restores recorders by other makers. | |||
| Delessert, Olivier | Switzerland | Le Ruisseau, 1742 Autigny | +41 (0)26 477 14 02 | +41 (0)26 477 14 02 | [email protected] | Medieval, renaissance & transitional recorders; baroque recorders after Bressan, Denner, Rottenburgh. | Also an organ maker. | |
| Den Vijlder [Vylder], Antoon | Belgium | Rector de Ramstraat 17, B-2240 Zandhove | +32 031 843136 | Baroque recorders after Rottenburgh. | Marketted under the trademark Vanparys. Has quit instrument making, since becoming allergic to wood. | |||
| Diesen, Bodil | Norway | Greverudåsen 14, 1415 Oppegård | +47 6699 4805, mobile 9050 3045 | +47 2 994805 | [email protected] | https://www.bodildiesen.no/ | Ganassi recorders and baroque recorders. Also makes sjøfløyte (sea flute), a Norwegian variant of the recorder. | |
| Dolmetsch Musical Instruments | United Kingdom (UK) | Jesses, Grayswood Road, Haslemere Surrey GU27 2BS | +44 1428 651473 | [email protected] | http://www.dolmetsch.com/ | Plastic school recorders, wooden school recorders, Nova recorders (plastic SATB), Academy recorders, Conservatoire recorders; Gold Series, for players who can use only one hand; baroque recorders after Bressan & Stanesby. | Ceased production of hand-made recorders in 2010. Their Nova (plastic), Academy, Conservatoire and one-handed models continue to be available from the Dutch manufacturer, AAFAB. | |
| Earlham | Israel | Plastic soprano recorders. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | |||||
| Edwards, John | United Kingdom (UK) | The Moors House, St Martins Moor, Oswestry, Shropshire, SY10 7BH | +44 016 9167 0451 | [email protected] | Renaissance recorders; Ganassi recorders; transitional recorders; baroque recorders after Oberlender, Stanesby, Terton, Bressan, Denner, Bizey & Rippert. | |||
| Ecochard, Marc | France | Tonne, Cidex 32, 16430 Vindelle | +33 5 45 21 49 18 | +33 5 45 21 49 18 | https://www.facebook.com/Marc-Ecochard-facteur-de-hautbois-1385172011507510/ | Has made Van Eyck-style recorders; baroque recorders after Stanesby. | Also makes baroque oboes in boxwood after Denner, Grenser, Naust and Desjardins. | |
| Ehlert, Ralf K. | Germany | Gartenkamp 6, Celle/Bostel | +49 5141 930181 | +49 51 41 930081 | [email protected] | http://www.ehlert-blockfloeten.de/ | Renaissance recorders after Ganassi; transitional recorders after Rosenborg; baroque recorders after Anciutti, Peter Bressan, Johann Christoph Denner, Jakob Denner, Joannes Hyacinthus Rottenburgh, Thomas Stanesby Sr & Thomas Stanesby Jr. | Designer of the new Ehlert Alto recorder manufactured by Moeck. |
| Elite | Japan | Toyama Musical Instruments Co. Ltd, 41 Ohara-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 174-0061 | +81 3 3960 8305 | +81 3 5916 2877 | [email protected] | http://www.toyamagakki.co.jp/ | Plastic recorders. | Trademark of Toyama Musical Instruments Co. Ltd. |
| Fehr Blockflötenbau | Germany | Am Ried 7-36041 Fulda | +49 (0)661 968 938-38 | [email protected] | https://www.fehr-blockfloeten.de/en/ | Baroque and neo-baroque recorders; school recorders. Notable products are a baroque alto after Stanesby Sr; the Ergo Knick-tenor featuring keywork operated by large flanges; and a recorder designed by Heniz Amman. | Fehr recorders are now part of the Kunath Group and are manufactured in Fulda (Germany). | |
| Fehr, Thomas | Switzerland | Seestrasse 185, CH - 8712 Stäfa, | +41 (01) 926 65 26 | +41 (01) 926 65 26 | [email protected] | https://www.floetenbau.ch/ | Transverse flutes; recorder repairs. | Note that this is not the workshop formerly managed by Thomas' father (H.C.Fehr-Blockflötenbau) which has passed out of the family's hands. |
| Fern Recorders David Coomber | New Zealand (NZ) | 10b Alma Street, Te Atatu South, Auckland | +64 9 8376133 | +64 9 8376144 | [email protected] | Produced a limited number of handmade recorders each year (SATB) which were based on 18th-century originals by Stanesby and Denner. | Trademark of David Coomber. In 2014 David started a new career and therefore decided to cease recorder making. | |
| Forbes, Stuart | United States of America (USA) | 10 Gaucho, Rolling Hills Estates CA 90274 | +1 (310) 547 9858 | My father is primarily interested in the physics of renaissance (and baroque) wind instruments - even though he has built many instruments and repaired quite a few, I would say (and he might or might not agree) that he would prefer to refine his understanding of their workings before building in any sort of 'volume'. As a retired nuclear physicist and amateur woodwind player, my father has determined that the state of the theory of woodwinds - resonances, etc. - is woefully inadequate to explain the complex behavior of instruments with non-circular, non-linear bores. He has devoted several years to measuring node points, bore pressure, etc. in an attempt to discover how 'great' instruments differ from bad-sounding instruments that are virtual copies of the same. At the same time, he has produced some instruments that are not only physically beautiful but which also play very well - if only he could duplicate these successes at will! Notes by Brian Forbes. | ||||
| Foret-Bruno | France | Baroque recorders. | Trade-mark of Olivier Cottet. | |||||
| Foster, Charles | United Kingdom (UK) | Glen Cottage, 63 Holburn Street, Aberdeen, Aberdenshire AB 6BR UK | +44 01224 580024 | Renaissance recorders, based on Bärenreiter recorders of the '60s and early '70s. Has also made crumhorns and shawms. | The original Bärenreiter recorders were made in the Mollenhauer workshops, Fulda, Germany. | |||
| Fukushima, Yuzuru | Japan | Unknown | Ganassi style recorders: soprano in c'' & alto in g'. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | ||||
| Geiger, Georg | Australia | Townsville, Qld | +61 071 55 1092 | A respected Swedish maker now resident in Australia. Unfortunately, glaucoma forced Georg's retirement a few years ago. I expect he would still like to hear from his former clients and those who may have questions about instruments he made in the past. | ||||
| Gill Recorders | Israel | Inexpensive plastic (including coloured models)and wooden recorders. | Distributed by Leblanc. I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | |||||
| Global | Germany | Neo-baroque plastic recorders. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | |||||
| Gohin, Henri | France | 16 rue Macaigne Fortier, F-95650 Boissy l'Aillerie, Île-de-France | +33 1 34 66 91 26 | +33 1 34 66 91 26 | [email protected] | https://gohinflutes.fr/en/instruments/flutes-a-bec | Medieval recorders; Renaissance wide-bore recorders, including extended basses and columnar recorders; consort recorders; Ganassi recorders; Transitional recorders after Kynsecker; Baroque recorders after Bressan, Bizey Debey, Denner, Hotteterre, Stanesby Jr, Terton & to his own design. | Also makes flageolets, cornetti, oboes, bassoons, dulcians, shawms. |
| Graf, Dieter | Switzerland | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | ||||||
| Gremlin | School recorders, including Century model. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | ||||||
| Flötenbau Gruber Gyula Foky-Gruber | Germany | Schlichterstraße 5, D-65185 Wiesbaden | +49 0611 370172 | +49 0661/3083831 | Silberton (metal, keyed recorders) | Hungarian composer, recorder maker, and recorder player Gyula Gruber developed the Silberton, an all-metal soprano recorder made entirely of nickel-plated brass, and an alto made of rosewood with a metal head-joint and two keys for the lowermost finger hole. Both feature a system of adjustable voicing achieved by altering the position of the block and the height of the windway. Both were of cylindrical bore. Later the German firm Hopf, for whom Gruber worked from 1965-1970, produced Silberton instruments which they now offer as Gruber System recorders by Kobliczek in sopranino, soprano, and alto models. Today, Gruber himself is no longer making recorders. | ||
| Gurovich, Marcelo D. | República Argentina | Sarmiento 3725 4º | [email protected] | http://www.mg-woodwinds.com.ar/ | Renaissance recorders after Praetorius; Ganassi recorders; baroque recorders after Bressan-Anciuti, J. Denner, Stanesby Sr & Stanesby Jr, and to his own design. | Also makes baroque flutes, Irish flutes and tin whistles. | ||
| Heathcote, David | United Kingdom (UK) | 20 Nelson Road, Sheringham, Norfolk NR26 8BU | +44 01263 821950 | [email protected] | Baroque recorders after Bressan & Denner. | |||
| Heimdal, Sverre | Norway | 3629 Nore | +47 3274 1290 & 3274 5251 | +47 3274 1657 | [email protected] | Traditional sjøfløyte (seaflute, a kind of folk recorder), after Nils O. Stuvstad. | Also makes lyres. | |
| Helder, Maarten | France | 61 route de Guebwiller, 68360 Soultz-Haut-Rhin | Harmonic Alto & Tenor recorders | Maarten Helder is the inventor of the remarkable Harmonic Recorder, a recorder with harmonics tuned in such a way as to make it possible to play very strong and stable low notes with a tone quality matching that of its higher registers. Indeed the Harmonic Tenor Recorder boasts a three octave range from b-c'''', with 4 keys and an optional piano key. The latter is operated by the index finger of the left hand and serves to raise the pitch overall thus allowing the player to create a decrescendo by diminishing breath pressure. By twisting a screw beneath the block on the headjoint, the block can be raised or lowered in order to adjust timbre and produce special sound effects. Further, the Harmonic Alto Recorder includes a sound unit with a number of replaceable wind canals which may be of different materials and shapes. These instruments now manufactured by Conrad Mollenhauer GmbH. | ||||
| Hellinger, Erich | Germany | School recorders. | Formerly made in GDR. | |||||
| Hermans, Jan | Belgium | Historical Woodwinds, Werkendam 12, 236O Oud-Turnhout | +32 14 41 65 40 | +32 14 41 65 40 | [email protected] | http://www.historicalwoodwinds.be/ | Baroque recorders after Rottenburgh, Bressan, Bizey, Denner, Stanesby, Terton etc; renaissance recorders after Van Eyck, Ganassi, & consorts at 466 Hz & 44O Hz. | Also makes flutes after Rottenburgh, Grenser, Hotteterre, Rippert & J.H. Grenser; and oboes. |
| Hofmann, Elmar | Germany | Flaschenhofstr. 2, D-90402 Nuremberg | Copies of a cane (walking stick) recorders & csakan pitched in A flat after Hell with one key. He is also about to finish his first copy of a Nielsen csakan with more keys. | |||||
| Hohner Musikinstrumente GmbH & Co. KG | Germany & Austria | Andreas-Koch-Strasse 9, D-78647 Trossingen, Germany | + 49 07425-20-0 (Germany) | +49 07425-20-495 (Germany) | https://www.hohner.de/ | Plastic, wooden & hybrid recorders, with German or baroque fingering. | Hohner have been manufacturing recorders since 1962. Their instruments are now made in China. See also Hohner USA | |
| Holmblat, Etienne | France | 31, Route du Pietat, 64290 Bosdarros | +33 (0) 559 215 857 & +33 (0)6 80 66 06 28 (mobile) | [email protected] | http://www.holmblat.fr/ | Renaissance recorders after van Eyck, Rafi & Ganassi; baroque recorders after Bressan, Denner, Heitz, Stanesby & Terton. Also tabor pipes, txistu, etc. | ||
| Holz, Roberto | Brazil (Brasil) | Rua Luiz Cesar Panaim, 139, Sao Paulo - SP | +55 11 3836 1186 | http://holzflutes.blogspot.com/ | Renaissance recorders; baroque recorders after Bressan, Denner, Rippert, Steenbergen; Ganassi recorders. | Copies other historical instruments on request, including baroque galoubets, flutes, clarinets, chalumeaux and clarinets. | ||
| John Hornby Skewes & Co. Ltd | United Kingdom (UK) | Salem House, Parkinson Approach, Garforth, Leeds LS25 2HR | +44 (0) 1132 865 381 | +44 (0) 1132 868 515 | [email protected] | https://www.jhs.co.uk/ | Plastic recorders, marketted as Hornby Recorders. | These are probably manufactured by Angel Musical Instrument Co. Ltd (Korea). |
| Huber Blockflötenbau Markus Huber | Switzerland | Seestraße 285, CH-8810 Horgen | +41 01 725 49 04 | +41 01 725 05 28 | [email protected] | https://www.huber-music.ch/ | Currently produce school, early baroque and neo-baroque recorders, the latter designed by Heinz Ammann; also 'soprina' and 'tenorina', half-recorders with holes for fingers of the left hand only. | Begun in 1957 as the successor of Nägeli and, since 1945, run by Gerhard Huber and his wife Hélène who have since retired. The operation of the Huber workshop is now in the hands of their son Markus Huber. |
| Hulsens, Guido | France | Beaubourg, 16330 Coulonge | +33 05 4594 0951 | +33 05 4594 0951 | [email protected] | https://www.guidohulsens.com/ | Renaissance consort recorders after Rafi; transitional recorders after van Eyck and Ganassi; baroque recorders after Denner, Stanesby Jr, Steenbergen, Bressan, Gahn, Schell & Rottenburgh; Csakan after Ziegler. | |
| Ivars, José | Spain | c/ Juan de Juanes, 3/3 H, Benissa E-03720 | +34 96 573 2444 | Renaissance recorders; baroque recorders after van Aardenberg, Haka, Stanesby Jr, Steenbergen, Bressan & Denner. | Ivars is not building recorders right now, but is working enthusiastically at abstract painting. He says some day he might go back to recorder building. | |||
| Innovations Fm7 | Japan | MIDIWIND MW-1, an Electronic Wind Instrument (EWI). | The MIDIWIND MW-1 is described as a recorder paradigm instrument designed specifically for the elementary education market. The controller is sized to work well with both children and adult-sized hands. The unit is slaved to a sound module (called the Player Station) which provides built-in sounds MIDI output. The Player Station can accept up to four MIDIWIND controllers simultaneously and is designed to be used in a classroom music lab. | |||||
| The Clarence James Woodwind Workshop | United States of America (USA) | 1352 Castleton Road, Ohio 43220 | +1 614 451 5381 | Baroque recorders. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | |||
| Jupiter Recorders | Plastic recorders | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | ||||||
| Kanji, Ricardo | Brazil (Brasil) | Rua Oscar Freire, 1702 Ap. 82, 05409-011 Sao Paulo S.P. | +55 11 3064 4229 | +55 11 3064 4229 | Born Sao Paulo, 1948. See Wikipedia | |||
| Kelischek Workshop for Historical Instruments | United States of America (USA) | 199 Waldroup Road, Brasstown NC 28902 | +1 800 747 8755 & 828 837 5833 (inside USA), +1 828 837 5833 (outside USA) | +1 828 837 5833 | [email protected] | https://www.susato.com/ | Plastic renaissance-style recorders (sSATB), pentatonic recorders. | |
| Kent Recorders | Plastic recorders | Made by Angel. | ||||||
| Kinoshita, Kunito | Japan | 1547-2 Kamiyama,. Kanae-machi, Shimoina-gun, Nagano | Baroque recorders after Bressan, Stanesby Sr, N. Hotteterre. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | ||||
| Klemisch, Guido M. | Netherlands & Germany | Frithjofstraße 71, D-13089 Berlin, Germany | +49(0)30-47307098 | +49(0)30-47307098 | [email protected] | http://www.guido-m-klemisch.de/ | Renaissance consort recorders after Hier. S (Hieronimus Solonbron), Schnitzer, Bassano (all 16th century); transitional recorders; Ganassi recorders; baroque recorders after Bizey, Boekhout, Bressan, Debey, J.C. Denner, Heytz (Heitz), Perosa, Rippert, Rottenburgh, Schell, Stanesby Sr, Steenbergen; also Jubiläum model designed by the maker; baroque flutes after Scherer, Grenser, Quantz, Kirst, Naust. | Renaissance consort recorders are made in collaboration with Johannes Skorupa. |
| Kobliczek Instrumentenbau Christoph Hamman | Germany | Georg-Ohm-Str 14, 6523 Taunusstein (Neuhof) | +49 (0) 6 128 734 03 | +49 (0) 6 128 75181 | [email protected] | https://www.team-hammann.de/ | Renaissance recorders after Praetorius; Ganassi recorders; baroque recorders after Stanesby & Anciuti; school recorders; Meister neo-baroque recorders; modern recorders with metal heads and adjustable blocks; pentatonic recorders. | Today the Kobliczek workshop is managed by Christoph Hammann. Also makes baroque flutes. |
| Kolberg, Sverre | Norway | Sofiemyr | Recorders and transverse flutes made with tools of his own devising. | Sadly, Sverre Kolberg died on 17 January 2024. He was born on 1 September 1944. | ||||
| Kowalewsky, Gerhard | Germany | Dörpner Heuweg 2, D-2255 Ostbargumfeld | +49 04672 684 | +49 04672 777 384 | [email protected] | https://marcgrimm.wixsite.com/kowalewsky/ | Baroque recorders after Bressan, but mainly transverse flutes. | |
| Kraemer, Roland | France | 15, rue des cordeliers, 14000 Caen | +33 02 31 52 99 29 | Medieval recorders after the Dordrecht instrument; renaissance consort recorders after Virdung/Agricola; transitional recorders after Kynsecker; baroque recorders after Denner, Heytz, Rippert, Rottenburgh, Steenbergen, and to his own design. | I would welcome further details of this maker. | |||
| Kunath Instrumentenbaur Joachim Kunath | Germany | Am Ried 7-36041 Fulda, Germany'+49 (0)661 968 938-38 | +49 (0)661 968 938-38 | [email protected] | https://www.kunath.com/Kunath-Blockfloeten/ | Diatonic, pentatonic and chromatic recorders; also pentatonic childrens-harp. All instruments at 440Hz and 432Hz (a tuning preferred by R. Steiner). | Kunath are now making the Paetzold range of square profile recorders with innovations of their own. Also part of the Kunath Group is the former Swiss recorder brand Fehr. | |
| Küng Blockflötenbau | Switzerland | Grabenstraße 3, CH-8200 Schaffausen | +41 52 6300 999 | +41 52 6300 990 | [email protected] | https://www.kueng-blockfloeten.ch/ | Studio (soprano & alto), Classica (garklein flutlein to sub-bass, consort), Superio (soprano to knick system bass, neo-baroque), and Historica models, in all sizes (piccolo to contrabass), and many different woods. The Historica series are baroque recorders after Denner, Rippert, Haka, Heerda and are handmade by Andreas Küng in his own studio workshop. The Folklora is a soprano recorder in Bb for use with other instruments in this key - in folk music, for instance. Their Eagle recorder (E3), an alto in f' with a metal labium, foot extension to e', and keywork, with a powerful sound and increased range. | Founded in 1933 by Franz Küng (1906-1983); continued by Andreas & Thomas Küng. Küng offer recorders with le souuffleur, a hole drilled through the block which can be opened or closed with the player's lower lip thus permitting a greater dynamic range. They can modify any make of recorder in this way. Andreas Küng recently retired from recorder making to pursue his private and musical interests. |
| Kuykendal, Erik | Germany | Baroque recorders after Bressan. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | |||||
| Lemaire, Sebastian | Belgium | 27 rue de l'Eglise, 1630 Linkebeek | +32 02-380 52 52 | Transitional recorders; Ganassi recorders; baroque recorders after Denner & Rottenburgh. | Lemaire made recorders for Frédéric de Roos, amongst other players. | |||
| Levin Historical Instruments Inc. Philip A. Levin | United States of America (USA) | Phil Levin, POB 407 - 13 Cliffside Rd, Newfoundland, NJ 07435 | +1 201 697 0535 & 800 283 3714 | +1 201 697 0536 | [email protected] | Levin & Silverstein made renaissance recorders and baroque recorders after Stanesby in the past. Later, Levin redisigned the range of renaissance recorders. Levin Historical Instruments, Inc. is very much alive. Although he no longer makes recorders, Phil still services his old clientele, i.e. all former customers and anything that came from his shop, custom and commercial. | ||
| Li Virghi, Francesco | Italy | La Quercia del vento, 01028 Orte (VT) | +39 0761 400170 | + 39 761 490163 | [email protected] | http://www.livirghi.com | Three holed pipes; medieval double recorder; medieval recorders; renaissance recorders after Praetorius, Ganassi & Rafi; van Eyck recorder; baroque recorders after Anciutti, Bressan, J.C. Denner, Hotteterre, Stanesby Sr & Jr, Terton; ceramic alto recorder after Stanesby. | Marco Piga and Stefano Ensabella work with Li Virghi. See Virghi, Francesco Li, and Barbara Law. 2020. Francesco Li Virghi and the Rafi Consort. Recorder Magazine 40 (2): 55 & 58. |
| LMI Music Production for Education / Giardinelli | United States of America (USA) | 1776 Armitage Crt, Addison, IL, 60101 | +1 800-456-2334. | http://www.lmimusic.com/ | Plastic recorders, sSATB. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. LMI appears to be a subsidiary of Giardinelli. It seems likely that their recorders are made by Angel (S. Korea) and rebadged as LMI. Available from Giardinelli, Instrumentuniverse.com and Musicansfriend.com, amongst other retailers. | ||
| Löbner [Loebner, Lobner], Margaret | Germany | Osterdeich 59a, D-28203 Bremen | +49 (0421) 70 28 52 | +49 (0421) 70 23 37 | [email protected] | https://www.loebnerblockfloeten.de/ | Medieval recorders; baroque recorders after Steenbergen, Bizey, Debey, Denner Schuchart. | Stocks recorders by many other makers, amongst them Aura, Blezinger, Diesen, Dolmetsch, Ehlert, Huber, Küng (Kueng), Marsyas, Moeck, Mollenhauer, Netsch, Paetzold, van der Poel, Praetorius, Ran, Yamaha, Zen-On. |
| Lucky Plastic Recorders | Taiwan | Ivory-coloured, plastic, 3-piece, soprano & alto recorders with baroque fingering. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | |||||
| Madgwick, Paul | Germany | Matterhornstraße 62, 81825 Munich 82 | +49 89 430 0862 | [email protected] | Renaissance recorders; Ganassi recorders. | |||
| Oberg, Howard | Australia | 48 Trentbridge Road, Belrose NSW 2085 | +61 02 452 3285 | Has made baroque recorders and baroque flutes. | Howard Oberg was born at Goulburn in 1947. He pursued careers as a woolclasser, followed by mechanical and electrical engineering and newspaper photographer before joining the staff of the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music in 1974 as a flute and recorder teacher. In 1977, he took on the challenge of making quality recorders and baroque flutes for his students. He is now a specialist maker and performer of the traverso, and believes that Australian timbers, including Dirranbandi ironwood from Queensland, mulga and gidgee, are superior to their European counterparts for flute making. | |||
| Occorso, Santi | Switzerland | Via Nocca 12a, CH - 6500 Bellinzona | +41 (0)91 8259839 | [email protected] | http://www.occorsopanfloeten.com/ | Panpipe maker; has made recorders (including garklein flutlein) & double recorders. | ||
| Ohannesian, David | United States of America (USA) | 106 NW 104th Street, Seattle, WA 98177 | +1 206 781 8517 | [email protected] | Renaissance consort recorders at A440; baroque alto recorders after Jacob Denner at A=415 Hz & after Bressan at A=392 Hz. | Agent for Küng. | ||
| Paetzold, Herbert | Germany | Schwabenstraße 14, D - 87640 Ebenhofen | +49 (0)83 42 89 91 11 | +49 (0)83 42 89 91 22 | [email protected] | http://www.alte-musik.info/ | Transitional recorders; baroque recorders after Denner, Steenbergen, Stanesby, Gahn, Echentop & Englehard; school recorders; modern (square profile) recorders; csakans. | In 2012 the rights and production of the square-profile Paetzold bass recorders were transferred to the workshop of Joachim Kunath, their name changed to 'Paetzold by Kunath' and the workshop itself relocated from Ebenhofen to Fulda where they have been further developed. |
| Palm, Richard | United States of America (USA) | 67 Eldora Drive, Mountain View, CA 94041-2217 | [email protected] | Made baroque alto recorders at various pitches, but no longer active as a recorder maker. | ||||
| Paolis, Luca de | Italy | Piazza Aia di Pile n 9, 67100 L'Aquila | +39 862 313103 | +39 862 313103 | [email protected] | https://www.ldprecorders.com/home/ | Medieval recorders in Pythagorean temperament; Renaissance recorders after P.Grece, Rafi and Ganassi; Transitional recorders after Rosenborg and van Eyck style; Baroque recorders after Bressan, Denner, Steenbergen, Stanesby jr, Gahn and Hallet. | Finishes instruments from the Fred Morgan workshop, Daylesford, Australia. Revoicing over lifetime of instruments. |
| Piga, Marco | Italy | c/o Francesco Li Virghi, La Quercia del vento, 01028 Orte (VT) | Ceramic baroque recorders after Stanesby. | Works with Li Virghi through whom he can be contacted. I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | ||||
| Praetorius, Martin | Germany | Am Amsthof 4, D-29355, Beedenbostel | +49 (0)5145 93234 | +49 (0)5145 93235 | [email protected] | https://www.martin-praetorius.de/ | Renaissance recorders; baroque recorders after an orignal alto by Thomas Stanesby in the collection of Frans Brüggen. Also dulcians. | |
| Prelude | Israel | Unknown | Plastic (ABS) recorders. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | ||||
| Prescott Workshop Thomas Prescott | United States of America (USA) | 14 Grant Road, Hanover NH 03755 | +1 (603) 643 6442 | +1 (603) 643 5219 | [email protected] | http://prescottworkshop.com/ | Renaissance consort recorders; transitional recorders; baroque recorders after Boekhout, Bressan, Jacob Denner, Johann Christoph Denner, & Steenbergen; neo-baroque recorders. | Tom is in the process of retiring! He write: 'New orders will be completed starting in November of 2023. If there is still a Prescott instrument in your dreams, don't wait. Some instruments are no longer available. I won't be starting any instruments that aren't already in partially completed form, so when these are gone, that will be the end.' |
| Ran, Yoav | Israel | 5 Benjamin Street, 76244 Rehovot | +972-(0)8-9452526 | +972-(0)8-9452526 | [email protected] | https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010270123787 | Ganassi recorders; baroque recorders after Debey, Stanesby & Steenbergen; neo-baroque recorders. | |
| Ransley, Michael | United Kingdom (UK) | Renaissance recorders; baroque recorders; 3-holed pipes. | Present whereabouts unknown. Formerly at two addresses in Cornwall (Lostwithiel and Bodmin). Probably no longer active. | |||||
| Reinhard, Bruno | France | 489 chemin du Bouquier, 84330 Caromb | +33 04 90 62 39 20 | +33 04 90 62 39 20 | [email protected] | http://www.flutes-bruno-reinhard.com/ | Medieval recorders; renaissance recorder consort (c soprano to f basset, alto in f or g); renaissance recorders after Rafi and Grece; Ganassi style recorders; van Eyck style recorders; baroque recorders after Bressan (including voice flute), Stanesby Jr and to Bruno's own design. | |
| Paul Richardson, Paul | Spain | c/- Vaquerias 8-5aD, 28007 Madrid | +34 91 4094726 647546670 | [email protected] | http://recorders-paulrichardson.com/ | Renaissance recorders; van Eyck recorders; Ganassi recorders; baroque recorders after Bizey, Bressan, Denner, Rippert, Stanesby & Terton. | Born 1947. Website unresponsive, 22 September 2023. | |
| Meisterwerkstatt für Instrumentenbau Eduardo Valdivia Rivera | Germany | Pestalozzistr. 49 10627 Berlin | +49 030 37591949 & 0179 914 05 32 (mobile) | [email protected] | http://www.valdivia-musikinstrumente.de/ | Renaissance & baroque recorders | Eduardo worked at Mollenhauer from 1984-2000 where he was responsible for the manufacture of their Kynseker renaissance recorders and the Dream Recorders developed by Adriana Breukink. He also undertook repairs and restoration. Since 2000 Eduardo has worked independently as a maker of guitars and violins! | |
| Robin | Japan | Toyama Musical Instruments Co. Ltd, 41 Ohara-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 174 | +81 3 9608304 | Plastic recorders. | Trademark of Toyama Musical Instruments Co. Ltd | |||
| Sabelstrom, Per | Sweden | Spjällgatan 16, 74941 Enköping | [email protected] | Ganassi recorders in G at 460, 466 and 440; in C at 415, 440; baroque alto recorder after Bressan (Hunt) at A 405, 415 and (if you bribe him) 440, after Denner (Kopenhagen) at A 415, after Bizey at A 392; voice-flute after Bizey at A 392. | ||||
| Saito, Fumitaka | Netherlands & Japan | Borneostraat 33, 1094 CH Amsterdam 156-0045 Sakurajosui Gardens D-1111, 4-1 Sakurajosui, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo | +31 020 618 5137 +81-3-6320-9118 / mob.: +81-80-7848-8434 | [email protected] | https://www.saitorecorder.com/ | Renaissance recorders after Ganassi; baroque recorders after Anonymous, Bressan, Castel, Denner, Hallet, Heitz, Rippert, Rottenburgh, Stanesby Sr, Stanesby Jr, Steenbergen, Terton; and recorders of his own design | ||
| Saturn | Germany | Unknown | Saturn recorders were made in GDR (East Germany) during the communist era. They were very popular in the Communist Block where they were amongst the few recorders available. They were produced with German fingering only. I would be grateful for contact and other details of this maker, if they are still active. | |||||
| Saunders, Joanne G. | Australia | PO Box 558, Kew, VIC 3191 Studio CG.02 Convent Building, Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford, VIC 3067 | +61 (0)3 9415 7516 and 0433 173 335 (mobile) | [email protected] | https://abbotsfordconvent.com.au/whos-here/joanne-saunders/ | Baroque recorders after Steenbergen. | Joanne Saunders was educated at Preshil School where her love of the recorder and woodwork were able to combine. Later, after completing oboe studies at the Victorian College of the Arts Joanne persuaded renowned recorder maker Fred Morgan to train her. Joanne completed a four year training and set up her own workshop first in Daylesford and after working in Europe for three years is now in Melbourne. Joanne specializes in making baroque recorders after J. Steenbergen (Amsterdam 18th century). Each instrument is individually hand crafted and many hours spent 'playing in' and adjusting the voicing to produce a unique tonal characteristic. All instruments are made from selected Honduras Rosewood, European Boxwood, North American Rock Maple and Australian native Mulga woods. | |
| Scheele, Klaus | Germany | Kampstraße 6 - D 27619 Sellstedt | +49 04703 2255923 | [email protected] | http://www.flautodolce.de/ | Renaissance recorders; baroque recorders after Bressan, Rottenburgh, Stanesby & Denner. Also flutes and pipe organs. | ||
| Schegget, Heiko ter | Netherlands | Van der Leelaan 2, NL-3941 RN Doorn | +31 343 415081 | [email protected] | Instruments include copies of Stanesby Sr and Bressan originals. | Makes recorders for himself only. | ||
| Schimmel, Hans | Netherlands | Ganassi recorders; baroque recorders after Terton, Bressan, Anciuti, Stanesby, Bressan, Denner, Debey & Boekhout. | Hans has retired from recorder-making. | |||||
| Schneider, Ralf | Germany | Klingenthaler Str. 8, 08267 Zwota | +49 037467-22234 | +49 037467-22231 | [email protected] | https://migma-eg.de/204-gerald-schneider | School recorders. Models include 'Junior', 'Lido' and 'Telemann' recorders. Also undertakes repairs. His instruments are distributed by Migma. | |
| Andreas Schöni [Schoeni, Schoni], Andreas | Switzerland | Weihergasse 10, CH-3005 Bern | +41 31 312 1969 | +41 31 312 1969 | [email protected] | http://www.schoenibern.ch | Renaissance recorders; transitional recorders; Ganassi recorders; baroque recorders after J.C. Denner, Schell, Scherrer, Wyne, Hotteterre & Bressan. Also a novel 'echo flute' based loosely on Christoph Weigel's Der Pfeiffenmacher, Regensburg (1698) and on surviving examples by Anciuti. | See here for more information on this maker's 'echo flute'. |
| Schwob, Andreas | Switzerland | Dorfplatz 1, CH-6362 Stansstad | +41 41 610 27 89 (workshop) +41 41 610 16 75 (private) | [email protected] | Renaissance, Ganassi-style early baroque and baroque recorders. | A former optician, Schwob received his training from Alec Loretto. In 1981 he built his first recorder: a “garkleine flötlein” after Praetorius. | ||
| Scott, James M. | United States of America (USA) | 1648 Oakview Avenue, Kensington CA 94707 | +1 415 526 5815 | Renaissance recorders; baroque recorders after Haka, Rottenburgh, Bizey & Denner. | Jim Scott’s passion for wood began in Europe. He worked in Germany making flutes, while studying old recorders and baroque flutes in the museums until 1982. He later moved to Berkeley, raised a family, and started a career in computer engineering. See here | |||
| Shlaer, Dr Robert | United States of America (USA) | 3 Moya Lane, Santa Fe, New Mexico NM 87505-8869 | +1 505 466 3709 | [email protected] | Made baroque recorders after Bressan in the 1970s. More recently offered a hybrid low-pitch recorder comprising a modified Yamaha YRA-312B plastic alto with a wooden centre-joint to play at A=415 Hz. | Advertised in Early Music 6(2): 303 (1978). Currently focusing on daguerreotype photography - see here and there. | ||
| Siekman, Ella | Netherlands | Dorpsweg 129, 1676 GH Twisk, Amsterdam | +31 0227 548288 | [email protected] | http://www.blokfluitkids.nl/boomblok.html | Renaissance recorders; transitional recorders; Ganassi recorders; baroque recorders. | Ella Siekman studied the recorder at the Utrecht conservatorium, graduating in 1983. Following this she decided to become a recorder maker. First she undertook intensive research of authentic historical tools for recorder building, studying with Sverre Kolberg. Next she studied originals in Vienna, Nuremberg and The Hague. She cooperated with the production of the measurements for the book Dutch Recorders of the 18th Century (Acht et al, 1991). She has made recorders professionally since 1989. | |
| Sopranzi, Pietro | Italy | via Savellon, 1535020 Pernumia (PD) | +39 0429 77 84 96 and +39 0429 77 98 00 | +39 (0)49 8805051 | [email protected] | https://www.facebook.com/pietrosopranziflauti/ | Medieval recorders; Ganassi recorders; van Eyck recorders; baroque recorders; recorders after Bressan in plexiglass. | |
| Sorel, Jaqueline | Netherlands | Kazernestraat 96D, 2514 CW Den Haag | +31 (0)70-3656170 | +31 (0)70-3656170 | [email protected] | https://www.sorel-recorders.nl | Ganassi-style recorders; baroque recorders after Abraham van Aardenberg, Bressan, Debey, Jacob Denner, Stanesby Sr & Terton; modern (neo-baroque) recorders. | Jacqueline also makes baroque oboes, for which see here |
| St John, Oliver | United Kingdom (UK) | The Old Stables, Manor Farm, Barns, East Hagbourne OX11 9ND | +44 01235 818437 | Amateur recorder maker. | ||||
| Stiegler, Helge | Austria | Mühlein 12, A-3335 Weyer | +43 7355 7649 | [email protected] | http://www.setzbauer.com/ | Renaissance recorders; transitional recorders after Bassano and van Eyck; baroque recorders after Bressan and Stanesby Jr; modern alto in f' at A=443Hz called 'Louis', the name of which is inspired by the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen and refers to his piece Sweet; modern soprano in c' at A=443Hz. | ||
| Stoecker, Norman | United States of America (USA) | 16607 Saddle Creek Road, Clarkson Valley, MO 63005 | [email protected] | Renaissance recorders; baroque recorders. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | |||
| Susato | United States of America (USA) | Kelischek Workshop for Historical Instruments, 199 Waldroup Road, Brasstown NC 28902 | +1 828 837 5833 (outside USA); 800 747 8755 (inside USA) | +1 828 837 5833 | [email protected] | https://www.susato.com/ | Plastic renaissance-style recorders (sopranino, soprano & alto); pentatonic recorders. Also 3- and 6-holed pipes. | Tademark of The Kelischek Workshop for Historical Instruments, used for their range of wind instruments, including pentatonic and plastic renaissance-style recorders. |
| Suzuki Musical Instrument Manufacturing Company, Ltd | Japan & United States of America (USA) | 2-25-11 Ryoke, Hammamatsu 430, Japan PO Box 261030, San Diego, CA 92169-1030, USA | +1 800 854 1594 (USA) | [email protected] | http://www.suzukimusic.com/ | Plastic neo-baroque recorders, including a 1-piece recorder & Master Class recorders Precorder PRE-1, a two-piece plastic recorder with raised tone holes for pre-school use. Keyboard Recorder ANDES-25, a recorder operated by a Melodion-style keyboard. Suzuki SRW-100 Recorder Wind Controller, an Electronic Wind Instrument (EWI) for use with MIDI sound modules. | The Suzuki SRW-100 Recorder Wind Controller uses standard recorder fingerings, is equipped with pressure sensitive finger holes, and requires traditional breath control. | |
| Swayne, Jonathan | United Kingdom (UK) | 1 Gilbert's Corner, Baltonsborough, Glastonbury, Somerset BA6 8RB | +44 014 5885 0911 | [email protected] | https://www.jonswayne.com/ | Whistles (6-holed pipes) and bagpipes. | Made renaisance style recorders in the past. | |
| Symphony | Japan | Toyama Musical Instruments Co. Ltd, 41 Ohara-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 174-0061 41 Ohara-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 174-0061 | +81 3 9608305 | +81 3 5916 2877 | [email protected] | https://aulos.jp/en/company.html | Plastic recorders. | Trademark of Toyama Musical Instruments Co. Ltd |
| Takeyama Workshop Hiroyuki Takeyama | Japan | 3-8-12 Anryu Suminoe-ku, Osaka 559-0003 | +81 6-678-1000 | +81 6-671-0880 | [email protected] | http://www.takeyama-recorder.jp/ | Baroque recorders after Bressan and Denner at a=442 or a=415 and to their own design; also school recorders. | A small team led by master craftsman Hiroyuki Takeyama. |
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| Toyama Musical Instruments Co. Ltd | Japan | 41 Ohara-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 174-0061 | +81 3 9608305 | +81 3 5916 2877 | [email protected] | http://www.toyamagakki.co.jp/ | Plastic recorders from garklein flutlein to bass, including soprano and alto based on an 18th-century original by Haka. Recent models include a soprano and alto with a wood-grain finish. | Trademarks include Alouette, Aulos, Bel Canto, Elite, Robin & Symphony. |
| Tsukada, Junichi | Japan | Sakai City, Osaka | Baroque recorders after Gahn. | Amateur recorder-maker. I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | ||||
| Trophy Music Company | United States of America (USA) | 3800 Kelley Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44114 | Plastic recorders. | Market wooden and plastic recorders under the Trademarks Cambridge, Flutaphone and Tudor. The plastic instruments are possibly made by Angel. I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | ||||
| Tubau, Josep | Spain | c/o Doctor Esteve, 29, Manresa 08249, Barcelona | +34 93 8743534 | [email protected] | Renaissance recorders; transitional recorders; baroque recorders after Wijne, Bressan & Denner. | |||
| Turner, Robert | United States of America (USA) | Unknown | Renaissance recorders; transitional recorders; Ganassi recorders; baroque recorders after Stanesby, Denner, Steenbergen & Bressan. | Formerly Robert Gilliam-Turner. Has now retired from commercial recorder-making. | ||||
| Twaalfhoven, Frans van | Netherlands | Bovenweg 1, 8351GB Wapserveen | +31 5213 2 1268 | Renaissance recorders; transitional recorders; Ganassi recorders; baroque recorders; modern recorders. Twaalfhoven also made recorders from plexiglass. His 'piccolino' recorder in f''' was probably the smallest fully functional recorder ever made. | Frans has retired from recorder-making. | |||
| Linden, Paul van der | Netherlands | Tarwestraat 61 5351MK Berghem | +31.412.624273 +31.619.834162 | [email protected] | https://paulvanderlinden.nl/en/ | Ganassi recorders; baroque recorders after Denner. | Since 2000 has made only baroque oboes. | |
| Olmen, Oswald Van | France | Association Phoebus, Mas Escarabill, F 66400 Reynes | +33 04 6887 4910 | [email protected] | Maker of experimental recorders, namely the Hall-recorder. The Hall-recorder is described as a new vision of the concept of the recorder, an energetic concept: sound with energy. These instruments embody a unique approach to voicing, perforation and placement of tone holes in relation to sound, colours, tone-centre, homogeneity, and dynamic possibilities. Their characteristics are: balance in form, harmony in its properties, timeless beauty. There are two types of Hall-recorder: wide-bore (Mersenne) and conical bore (English Flute). Both are types are available with an inbuilt lip in bone, ivory or amber. The first type (Mersenne) have a wide bore and baroque fingering, suitable for medieval, renaissance, early baroque and contemporary music. The second type (English Flute) have a conical bore and baroque fingering and are suitable for baroque and contemporary music. | |||
| Poel, Peter van der | Netherlands | Zr. Spinhovenlaan 12, NL-3981 CS Bunnik | +31 030 656 4488 | +31 030 656 4488 | [email protected] | https://www.petervanderpoel.nl/index.html | Renaissance recorders after Schnitzer; Ganassi recorders; baroque recorders after Bizey, Debey, Denner & Stanesby. | Also makes clarinets and oboes. |
| Vanparys | Belgium | Antoon Devylder, Rector de Ramstraat 17, B-2240 Zandhove | 32 031 843136 | Baroque recorders. | Trademark of Antoon Devylder. I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | |||
| Venus | Germany | Auf dem Steinacker 6d, D-51515 Kürten-Busch | +49 22 6890 7192 | +49 22 6890 7193 | Two-piece wooden soprano recorders for beginners. | Trademark of Adler-Heinrich, now defunct. | ||
| Villa i Bosch, Josep Oriol | Spain | c/- Villaroel 79 pral. 2a, 08011, Barcelona | +34 93 323 4832 | Baroque recorders after Bressan. | ||||
| Friedrich von Huene Workshop Inc. Patrick von Huene | United States of America (USA) | 55-65 Boylston Street, Brookline MA 02146 | +1 617 277 8690 | +1 617 277 7217 | [email protected] | https://www.vonhuene.com/ | Ganassi recorders; renaissance consort recorders; baroque recorders after Bressan, Denner, Rippert, Scherer, Stanesby Jr & Terton & others. | The von Huene Workshop, Inc. was founded in 1960 by Friedrich von Huene, a pioneer in the reproduction of historical woodwinds for over half a century. Born and raised in Germany, he emigrated to the US in 1948 and served as a flutist in the US Air Force. In 1956 he graduated from Bowdoin College (ME) and began a four year apprenticeship with the legendary flute maker Verne Q. Powell. He began producing his own recorders in 1960 and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1966 for a comparative study of historical woodwinds, becoming one of the first makers to produce copies of original 18th century recorders. He designed the extraordinarily popular Rottenburgh recorders for Moeck as well as the first high-quality plastic recorders for Zen-On. After a successful career as a professional chef, Patrick von Huene joined the von Huene Workshop as an apprentice in 1982. For more than a quarter century now he has overseen production for the workshop and his craftsmanship and expertise are legendary. They are also the US repair agents for Moeck, Mollenhauer, Küng, Aafab and others. Patrick von Huene and Roy Sansom offer skilled repairs for all makes and models of recorders. |
| Wenner, Martin | Germany | Aluminiumstraße 8, D-78224 Singen | +49 07731 64085 | +49 07731 64087 | [email protected] | https://wennerfloeten.de/ | Renaissance recorders; baroque recorders after Anciuti, Bressan, Steenbergen, Stanesby Jnr & Terton. Also csakan after J. Ziegler. | Provides customised A415 Hz second centre-joint for Yamaha tenor recorder YRT61. Also undertakes repairs & restoration. |
| Whinray, Paul M. | New Zealand (NZ) | Te Henga Recorder Workshop, Box 95108, Swanson, Auckland 8 | +64 09 810 9130 | +64 09 810 9130 | [email protected] | Renaissance recorders; Ganassi recorders; baroque recorders. | New Zealand woodwind instrument maker. Trained as a mechanical engineer circa 1968. Ran the Auckland Folk Club 1970-1971. Made a reproduction of the Castles' Stanesby tenor recorder in 1982. | |
| Ronald H. Wick Fluitbouw Les Ateliers de la Flûte d'Or | Netherlands | Roelof de Manstraat 6, 4105 BR Culemborg | +31 040 211 34 26 | +31 040 211 34 26 | [email protected] | http://www.ronaldwick.com/ | Renaissance consort recorders after originals in Bologna & Vienna; transitional recorders after Kynseker; Ganassi recorders; baroque recorders after Bressan, Denner, Gahn, Haka, Heitz, Rippert, Rottenburgh, Stanesby Jr, Stanesby Sr, Steenbergen & Terton; modern recorders to his own design. | Also deals in second-hand instruments. Offers a repair service. Website inactive in September 2023. |
| Yamaha | Japan | 7-9-18 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo | +81 03 3572 3111 | https://au.yamaha.com/en/products/musical_instruments/winds/recorders/index.html | 300 Series Recorders - quality plastic recorders of baroque-style with excellent response, and intonation. The 312 & 314 Series soprano and alto have an imitation woodgrain finish (rosewood or ebony). 20 Series - three-piece plastic recorders for beginners in ivory, black (photograph) or translucent Sour Apple Green, Bubble Gum Pink and Cotton Candy Blue. 40 Series Recorders - inexpensive wooden student recorders made of maple, with straight windways and a simple modern exterior profile. 60 Series Recorders - modern hardwood instruments with curved windways and a hand-rubbed oil finish; tenors and basses are provided with hard cases. 80 and 90 Series Recorders - handcrafted wooden baroque instruments at A=415 or 440 Hz (including alto after Denner) with curved windways, undercut tone holes, hand-rubbed oil finish, and imitation ivory rings. This range includes a bass with an interchangeable centre joint which plays at A=440 and 415. Renaissance-style consort recorders at A=466 Hz. The WX5 is an Electronic Wind Instrument (EWI, a MIDI-controlled synthesiser operated by the breath which can be programmed to feel and sound like any wind instrument, including the recorder. 400 Series Recorders - identical in acoustical design to their present 300 series, but made of a new composite material named Ecodear, which consists of 70% ABS plastic resin and 30% plant-based resin -- all previous models have been made of 100% ABS plastic. These new instruments are yellow in color and similar to boxwood in appearance, with white imitation ivory trim similar to that in the 300 series instruments. In addition to being more ecologically friendly, the new recorders have a tone quality that is somewhat more like a wooden recorder. | Yamaha have branches on all continents and in many countries. | ||
| Zamra | Netherlands | AAFAb, BV-NL, Jeremiestraat 4-6, NL-3511 TW Utrecht | +31 0302 31693 | +31 0302 312350 | [email protected] | https://www.aafab.nl/ | Budget SAT maple recorders. | Trademark of AAFAb. |
| Zen-On Music Co., Ltd | Japan | 2-13-3 Kami Ochiai, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8586 | +81 3 3227 6283 | +81 3 3227 6288 | [email protected] | http://www.zen-on.co.jp/ | Plastic & wooden recorders, including plastic soprano after Stanesby Junior and alto after Bressan. Amongst their wooden instruments is an inexpensive tenor specially designed for players with small hands. The Zen-On alto recorder Giglio G-1A / 415 is the the world's first injection-molded 415Hz alto recorder. The Zen-On Bressan G-1A is its counterpart at A440 Hz. These are, perhaps, the finest plastic recorders available today. | |
| Ségretier, Jean-Marie | France | Baroque recorders after Hotteterre (with Eugéne Crijnen). | Recorder player and clarinetist. No longer active as a recorder maker. | |||||
| Hallit | Plastic recorders for school use. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | ||||||
| Da Capo | Plastic recorders. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | ||||||
| Goembel, Luke | United States of America (USA) | 1020 Regester Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21239 | [email protected] | http://www.goembel.biz/ | Luke writes: 'After not doing a lot in the way of recorder making for about seven years, I am now working to produce renaissance-style recorders with medieval-like tools, including a pole (foot powered) lathe and spoon bits. I'll rough turn the blanks green, then do the fine turning after the blanks dry' (2004). | An Applied Physics Laboratory scientist and accomplished amateur recorder-maker. See Field, M. (1996): Craftsmanship sets Luke Goembel apart, The Gazette: Newsletter of the John Hopkins University 25(19). | ||
| Sears, Tom A. | United States of America (USA) | 161 West 21st Ave, Eugene, Orlando OR 97405-2807 | +1 541 686 5972 | +1 541 686 5972 | [email protected] | Baroque recorders after Stanesby Jr. | Sears made a dozen or so Stanesby Jr recorders in early 1970s while working for Vernon Powell flutes in Boston. He was encouraged in this by Friedrich von Huene, who had also worked at Powell's previously. He is not actively producing recorders now, but is currently subcontracting flutes for Vernon Powell and has his own business making heads for flutes. Rumour has it that he is contemplating making recorders again. | |
| Musch, Monika | Germany | Sickingenstraße 10a, 79117 Freiburg im Breisgau | +49 761 6008 369 | [email protected] | https://www.monikamusch.de/ | Recorders inspired by medieval iconography; Ganassi-style recorders; consort recorders after Schnitzer. | ||
| Ronimus, Nikolaj | Denmark | Livjégergade 16, 2tv. DK - 2100 Copenhagen | +45 33 33 84 74; Mobile 4087 8474 | +45 33 33 84 74 | https://www.facebook.com/nikolaj.ronimus | Finishes instruments from the Fred Morgan workshop, Daylesford, Australia. Undertakes revoicing of all kind of recorders. | Also a performer on the recorder. | |
| Amara | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | |||||||
| Tolley, Bryan | France | Les Clielles, 79120 Lezay | +33 (0) 5 17 42 60 00 | [email protected] | Renaissance style recorders. | Bryan is a highly skilled luthier. He has made other wind, string and percussion instruments. Bryan is also a maker of marionettes, a puppeteer and a member of The Troubadours of Aquitaine. | ||
| Jones, Lewis | United Kingdom (UK) | Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design, London Metropolitan University | +44 020 7320 1841 | +44 020 7320 1830 | [email protected] | https://www.londonmet.ac.uk/profiles/staff/lewis-jones/ | Designer and builder (with David Armitage) of 19-division equal temperament recorders for use in microtonal music. The five keys enable accidentals in the lower part of the instruments' range to be played dependably, and also serve for many higher notes. The 19-division equal temperament has applications both in the faithful reproduction of pre-nineteenth century tunings, and in new microtonal music. | See Barnes (2002). |
| Catterall, Clive | United Kingdom (UK) | Inland Cottage, The Vauld, Marden, Hereford HR1 3HA | Made a recorder without a windway, in effect a notch flute. | This new instrument is played by putting the head against the lower lip and chin so that the edge is level with the gap between the lips. Formation of the lip shape, angle of blowing and air pressure must be learnt, as with the transverse flute, but the fingering is the same as for a reorder. The thumb-hole can be used in the same way as it is on the recorder, or the shift between registers can be done with the embouchure alone, it is up to the player. | ||||
| Fred Morgan Workshop | Australia | PO Box 34 Daylesford VIC 3460 | +61 03 5348 7679 | [email protected] | Transitional recorders after Ganassi, van Eyck, Baroque recorders after Bizey, Bressan, Debey, Jacob Denner, Stanesby, Stanesby & Bressan, Stanesby & Hallet. | The workshop is capable of producing recorder bodies up to approximately a third of the finished state. These are turned, stained, the holes drilled, and most importantly, the bores reamed. This can all be done to Fred's specific designs, with tools he designed and used daily. Colleagues state that the reaming done in this way is of enormous value. The clear aim in all this is to provide partly completed instruments using only Fred's design figures. So to this point the work is purely Morgan, as it were. The recorder is then finished, i.e. voiced and tuned, by the builder of your choice. Makers who are willing to undertake this work include, Amman, Crijnen, Ehlert, Hirao, Meyer, Netsch, Ronimus, Togawa. | ||
| Trescher, Christoph | Switzerland | Dorfstrasse 35, CH-9122 Mogelsberg | +41 (0)71 374 21 86 | [email protected] | https://www.christoph-trescher.ch/ | Ganassi-style recorders; early baroque recorders; and High baroque recorders after Aardenberg, Heitz, J.C. Denner, Terton. | ||
| Scottlamp Ltd | United Kingdom (UK) | Unit 3 Old Station Way, Bordon Trading Estate, Bordon, Hampshire GU35 9HH | +44 01420 479266 & 471598 | +44 01420 471590 | [email protected] | Manufacture a soprano recorder in black plastic with an ivory-coloured beak. The instrument is unmarked apart from a black D printed on the head. It is estimated that since their launch in the 1950s, more than 30 million of these recorders were produced and sold worldwide under the Dolmetsch brand name. | Available direct from Scottlamp and from Saunders Recorders. | |
| Köllner-Dives, Heinrich | Germany | Bahnhofstrasse 5, 94227 Lindberg | +49 (0)9925 1280 | +49 (0)9925 903320 | [email protected] | http://www.koellnerdives.de/ | Medieval (Dordrecht), Renaissance, Ganassi-style, early baroque and baroque recorders after Bressan, Denner, Stanesby Jr, Terton. | Also undertakes repairs. In addition to his musical instrument-making, Heinrich Köllner-Dives is a member of a family-based folkmusic ensemble called Falkensteiner Geigenmusik in which he himself sings and plays violin as well as recorder. They have produced a CD entitled Altbairische Tanzmusik. |
| Ternovec, Cristina | Italy | Via Oristano 39 - 00182, Rome | [email protected] | Ornaments recorders with decorative carving after historic originals. | ||||
| De Fluitstudio Maarten Visser | Netherlands | Jacob Catskade 40-2, NL 1052 CA Amsterdam | +31 20 682 3929 | [email protected] | http://www.flutelab.com/ | Adapts recorders and other instruments for use by players with special needs. | ||
| Togawa, Hitoshi | Japan | 7-9-11 Misaki, Funabashi , Chiba 274-0812 | 0474-47-1908 | [email protected] | Finishes instruments from the Fred Morgan workshop, Daylesford, Australia. | |||
| Carmichael, Craig | Canada | 820 Dunsmuir Road, Victoria BC, V9A 5B7 | +1 250 384 2626 | http://www.saers.com/~craig/SuperRecorder.html | Alto recorders of unique design, with additional keywork. | Craig writes of his highly experimental Supercorder as follows: 'The F alto Supercorder[TM], now available, has these desirable characteristics: - Exceptionally strong, even sound from low E up. - Extended pitch range from low Eb (by bell stopping) as far as G4 (41 notes!). Good tone and easy fingerings to C4: No part-holing fingers, no bell stopping. - Stress-free lip tuning for good tune-by-ear intonation at any dynamic level and in crescendos, decrescendos, fade endings... Also used for lovely pitch vibrato that adds beauty to longer notes. - Easier fingerings. Less tendency to clog while playing. - Easier cleaning and revoicing; separate beak and block replacement. These characteristics result from the following inventions and innovations: - Modern long bore design for strong low notes and better harmonics. - Very wide crescent windway with deep labium. - Non-swelling porcelain block. -Beak (windway roof) is revoiceable, replaceable - allows choice of beak woods for desired sound, or if lips react to one type of wood. - Automatic Embouchure Adjuster - allows low notes to be strongly tongued and blown loudly without overblowing. - Index-finger-alone B/Bb key eliminates the weak, awkward forked B's and Bb's. Easy to play through any chromatic or diatonic note sequence. - Open-hole G-key strengthens G# and A. E-key for low E. (Left 4th finger) - Open-hole F- and F#-keys for solid low F# and G. (right 4th finger) - Wood-turning thumb rest - no glue or holes to drill.' | ||
| Zaniol, Angelo | Italy | via Tomitano, 3, 31033 Castelfranco Veneto | [email protected] & [email protected] | In the past, Angelo has made renaissance, Ganassi-style and baroque recorders. | ||||
| Floeten-Klang Erich Siebert | Germany | Lilienstr. 17, 6523 Taunusstein | +49 (0) 6 128 734 03 | [email protected] | http://www.floeten-klang.de/ | Renaissance recorders after Praetorius, Ganassi-style recorders, neo-baroque recorders. Also makes panflutes and transverse flutes. | Instruments available via Christoph Hamman of Kobliczek Instrumentenbau. | |
| Alabastri Pecchioni di Giorgio Pecchioni | Italy | Via A. Cinci 22 - 56048 Volterra (PI) | +39 347/433.88.28 | [email protected] & href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected] | http://www.alabastrosonoro.com/ | Cylindrical recorders in white alabaster and agate. | Designed in collaboration with David Dainelli. | |
| Barreno, Juan Pablo | Spain | Avda Fernadez Ladreda 29, E40002 Segovia | +34 9214 29519 | [email protected] | http://www.barrenoinstrumentos.com/ | Medieval, renaissance, transitional & baroque recorders. Also makes a unique keyed recorder for use in popular music. | Also makes other wind instruments including flutes, shawms and cornamusen, oboes, clarinets, bassoons. | |
| Utt, Taavi-Mats | Estonia | Möisa tee 2-9, Muraste 76901, Harku vald Hurjamaa | +372 671 4 262, mobile +372 552 1604 | [email protected] | https://www.facebook.com/taavimats.utt/ | Has made renaissance-style recorders after an original in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Recorder player with Cantores Vagantes. | See Vickipeedia | |
| Pavel Cíp & synové Pavel Cíp & Sons | Czech Republic | Pod Javorníkem 1043 1043, CZ - 756 54 Zubrí | +420 571 658 699 | +420 571 658 699 | [email protected] | https://www.histnastroje.cz/en/ | Baroque and neo-baroque recorders. | Also makes bagpipes, early reed instruments and gemshorns. |
| Cambridge Recorder Services Yuzuru Yamashiro | United Kingdom (UK, GB) | Cambridge | +44 01223 356700 | [email protected] | Offers repair service including recorking, intonation correciton, revoicing. | Lianna Broglie (December 2011) reports that Yuzuru Yamashisro is carrying out excellent work, particularly re-voicing of high-quality handmade recorders and some maintenance of original recorders in private collections. | ||
| Jiangsu Qi Mei Instrument Co., Ltd | China | Xinye Rd, Jingjiang Developing Zone,Jiangsu, P.C.214500 | (86)0523-4613888 | [email protected] | http://www.china-qimei.com/english/ | QiMei series of neo-baroque recorders in plastic (ABS) and wood. The plastic recorders come in a wide variety of colours as well as wood-grained. | Manufacture recorders, 6-holed pipes and other musical instruments including harmonicas, melodicas and percussion. The company has the capacity to produce 6 million ABS Recorders and 0.3 million wooden recorders annually. It's the stuff of nightmares! | |
| Liyun Cultural Corporation / Woodnote / Solfege | Taiwan | B1 No. 41-1, Lane 296, Sec. 6, Main-Chiuan E. Rd, Taipei | +86-2-26336650 | +86-2-26329733 | [email protected] | http://www.www.woodnote-music.com/ | Inexpensive plastic and wooden neo-baroque recorders. | The Liyun Cultural Co. with its headquarter in Taiwan and branches in JiangSu and in the USA has been manufacturing musical instruments since 1980. As well as producing plastic recorders, their range of products include transverse flutes, melodicas, Orff instruments and violins. Since 2004 all products are offered under their own brand name, namely 'Woodnote'. |
| Dancing Stick Men Early Instruments Samuel Coulter | United States of America (USA) | Coarsegold Historic Village, 35300 Hwy 41, Coarsegold CA 93614 | Medieval recorders | Also made tabor pipes, bagpipes, percussion, American Indian flutes, citoles, etc. | ||||
| Bergsma, Femke | Canada | 127, 17th Ave, Lachine Qc, H8S 3N7 | [email protected] | https://www.facebook.com/femke.bergsma1/ | Has worked as an assistant to the recorder maker, Jean-Luc Boudreau. Offers a recorder repair service. | |||
| Andrejev (Andreev), Pavel | Russia | St Petersburg | Baroque recorders after Jacob Denner. | Also a recorder and traverso player. I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | ||||
| GT Musical Instruments Grzegorz Tomaszewicz | Poland | ul. Grodzka 62/7a, 31-044 Kraków, Poland | +48 12 422 46 52 | +48 12 422 46 52 | [email protected] | http://www.gtmusicalinstruments.com/ | Offers a repair service for wind instruments, including recorders. Manufactures renaissance & baroque woodwinds and used to produce Arte recorders. | |
| Migma eG Musikinstrumenten-Handwerker- Genossenschft eG | Germany | Schützenstr. 27, 08258 Markneukirchen | +49 (0)37422/2341 | +49 (0)37422/2342 | [email protected] | https://migma-eg.de/203-rene-schlegel | neo-baroque recorders | Migma is a cooperative of musical instruments makers that includes recorder makers René Schlegel (Meinel) and Gerald Schneider. |
| Parrot | China | Unknown | Plastic recorders. | Possibly manufactured by Jiangsu Qi Mei. I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | ||||
| Simba | United States of America (USA) | 637 Bluewater Drive, Nashville, Tennessee 37217 | +1 615-366-9007 | [email protected] | http://simbaproducts.com | Plastic recorders. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | |
| Prizant, Nir | Israel | K. Yad-Hanna; 42840 M.P.Lev-Nash | +972 9 876 5883 | [email protected] | https://il.linkedin.com/in/nir-prizant-2b608aa6 | Ganassi-style recorders and baroque recorders after Denner and Steenbergen. | ||
| Doris Kulossa-Blockflötenbau | Germany | Petersilienstr. 29, D-32825 Blomberg | +49 (0)5235 949 5 17 | [email protected] | https://www.kulossa.com/ | Ganassi-style recorders; renaissance recorders; medieval recorders; transitional (pre-baroque) recorders; copies of baroque recorders after Denner, Bressan, Steenbergen, Stanesby, Terton, etc. at A=415 and 440 Hz; 'Music Garden' plastic recorders after Stanesby Jr. | Formerly worked with Moeck and Blezinger. Also undertakes repairs. | |
| Gorset, Hans Olav | Norway | Ekebergv. 54, N-1181 Oslo 11 | (+47) 23 24 07 25 & (+47) 9520 8198 (mobile) | [email protected] | http://www.hansolavgorset.com/ | Ganassi type recorders. | The flautist Hans Olav Gorset is Professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, where he teaches recorder, baroque flute and performance practice. | |
| AM2 Instrumentos Musicais | Brazil (Brasil) | Rodovia Régis Bittencourt, Km 332, Barra Mansa - Juquitiba -SP | +55 (11) 974 441 933 | [email protected] | http://www.am2flautas.com.br/site/ | Ganassi-style recorders; baroque recorders after Haka, Hotteterre, and Denner; neo-baroque recorders; school recorders; pentatonic recorders. | Also transverse flutes, and a wide range of percussion instruments. | |
| Ximenes, Marcos Antonio | Brazil (Brasil) | Fortaleza, Ceara | +55 (85) 8836-2216 | [email protected] | http://www.mximenes.com/ | Ganassi-style recorders; baroque recorders after Bressan, Denner, Stanesby Jr, Steenbergen & Wijne. | ||
| Bán, György | Hungary | 2030 Érd, Szerelo, utca 16 | +36 23 372 625 | [email protected] | http://bangyorgy.atw.hu/ | Neo-baroque recorder for use in folk music. Also makers double pipes, panpipes, flutes, ocarinas, etc. | Instrument maker folk craftsman György Bán has been making different wood wind instruments for twenty years. At the beginning, only simple shepherd's flutes with six fingerholes, later also double flutes, side-blown flutes, tin ornamented shepherd's flutes and longflutes were made in his workshop. Gradually, the range of material used has increased, and he has tried almost all of the species of domestic fruit trees. According to his experience, the flutes with the most beautiful sound are made of plum, almond or apricot wood. Besides the Hungarian folk instruments, Renaissance and Baroque wood wind instruments can also be found in his stock: recorders, flutes, oboes. His instruments are sought out by folk music groups and music schools from Hungary and abroad. In 1984 he won the first prize of the National Folk Music Instrument Makers' Competition. Both the workshop and the stock have been expanding since. Plans to make the most popular instrument of the turn of the century, the tárogató. | |
| Ilarionov, Jewgenij (Eugene) | Ukraine | [email protected] | https://fontegara.one/ | Recorders, bagpipes, tabor pipes and whistles. Medieval recorders; renaissance recorders after Rafi and Ganassi; early baroque recorders after Rosenborg, Van Eyck and Haka; baroque recorders after Terton, Stanesby and Bressan. Also makes sopilkas (Ukranian chromatic duct-flutes with 10 finger holes). | ||||
| Ensemble Danserye | Spain | Cristobal de Morales nº 40, 2º F, Granada Huerto nº 5, 30420 Calasparra (Murcia), | [email protected] | http://www.ladanserye.com/construccion.htm | Renaissance recorders after van Eyck, Ganassi & Praetorius; baroque recorders after Hallet, Haka & Steenbergen. | An enterprising ensemble which makes many of its own instruments, notably recorders and cornetts, which they also offer for sale. | ||
| Hahl, Ulrich | Germany | Wooden neo-baroque recorders for children, including the 'Filius'model, the 'Filia' model which has a plastic head, and the 'Ecole' model designed by Heinz Amman. Also make a pocket chalmeau. | Ulrich Halhl, former manager of Adler-Heinrich, founded a recorder workshop producing some of the former Adler-Heinrich models (models for beginners). However, this company has also ceased production. | |||||
| Suzuki Musical Instrument Manufacturing Company, Ltd | Japan | http://members2.jcom.home.ne.jp/sigeszk3476/ | Recorders after Ganassi; baroque recorders after Bressan, Haka. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. Website inactive 23 September 2023. | ||||
| Drechslerei Oeggl Bernhard Oeggl | Germany | Klaushäuslweg 46, 83483 Bischofswiesen | +49 08652 - 8243 | +49 08652 - 979861 | [email protected] | http://www.drechslerei-oeggl.de/ | Maker of Berchtesgaden Fleitl | Bernhard Oeggl, whose great-grandfather Georg learnt his craft from Paul Walch, is the sole active maker of the Berchtesgadner Fleitl, a form of recorder with a clear, bright tone and a two octave chromatic compass, not unlike soprano reocrders from the baroque era. The term Berchtesgadner Fleitl appears to date from the nineteenth century, and the instrument continues to be made and played in the folk music tradition at the present time. In Berchtesgaden it is possible to trace a continuous history of recorder making over four centuries ⦠the craft now survives in the form of the Berchtesgadner Fleitl made by Bernhard Oeggl (MacMillan 2007: 194). Bischofswiessen is near Berchtesgaden. |
| EMD Music Stagg | Belgium | 16 A Bd. Général Wahis - 1030 Bruxelles | [email protected] | http://www.staggmusic.com/ | Plastic and wooden neo-baroque recorders. | Parent company is EMD Music. Stagg recorders are probably made in China. I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | ||
| Skorupa, Johannes | Austria | +43 676 60 917 60 | [email protected] | https://rogru2000.lima-city.de/ | Medieval (cylindrical bore) recorders; renaissance recorders after those in the Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien; recorders after Ganassi, pre-baroque recorders (with Jambe de Fer/Ganassi fingering); baroque recorders after Bizey, Rippert, L. Hotteterre, T. Boekhout, Steenbergen, & Heitz, J.C. Denner, J. Denner, Rottenburgh, Stanesby, Bressan. | Johannes also teaches recorder at the Universität für Musik und Dartsellende Kunst Wien. | ||
| Shanghai Kallen Piano & Musical Instrument Co., Ltd. | China | Floor No.286 Tian Mu Zhong Road Shanghai 200070 | 86-21-51286862 | 86-21-51062044 | http://www.kallen.com.cn | ABS plastic recorders. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | |
| Guangzhou Daling Musical Instrument Co., Ltd. | China | Shengshi Industrial Development Zone, Zhongcun Town, Panyu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong 511495 | 86-020-23830620 23830621 | 86-020-23830616 | https://dalinggz.en.ecplaza.net/ | Plastic recorders. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | |
| Bollinger, Geri | Switzerland | Rosenbergstrasse 11, CH-8200 Schaffhausen | +41 (0) 52 624 68 50 | [email protected] | https://www.geri-bollinger.com/ | Makes an innovative quartet of 'dynamic' recorders designed for modern music, with le souffleur, a lip-operated hole opening through the block into the head to adjust volume, and a removable beak which shortens the windway allowing even greater volume and timbral variation. The quartet comprises a g' alto, c' tenor, g basset and c bass. Also Ganassi-style models, and historic early baroque, and late baroque (after J.C. Denner) models. | Co-designer with Adriana Breukink of the 'Eagle' recorder. Also offers a microphone designed specifically for recorder players. | |
| Madge, Peter | Australia | 27 Hilary Avenue, Vic. 3938 | +61 (0)3 5982 1803 | [email protected] | Peter makes, repairs, tunes and re-voices recorders and has developed a block of innovative design which renders the instrument easier to play in its high register. | |||
| Flautissimo | Germany | Mühlental 50, 52066 Aachen | 0221-26060389 | [email protected] | http://www.flautissimo.net/ | Composite recorders for school use. | The company Flautissimo Blockflötenhandel has been active in the wholesale and retail trade of recorders for some time; in particular with the German distribution of recorders from Zen-On (Japan) and Woodnote (China). Since November 2008, Flautissimo has had its first recorder in its range, an entry-level soprano recorder with a plastic head and (maple) wooden base. | |
| Arni, Peter | Switzerland | Eichhornstrasse 5, CH-4059 Basel | [email protected] | Renaissance and baroque recorders | Peter is a skilled amateur maker of recorders. | |||
| Thomann, Marcus | Germany | Treppendorf 30, D-96138 Burgebrach | +49 9546 9223 0 | +49 9546 6774 | [email protected] | https://www.thomann.de/gb/recorders.html | Neo-baroque plastic recorders. | Probably rebadged by them. |
| Hotteterre & Co. Takesa Keigo | Japan | 12-14 Koshibara 1, Matsue | 0852-22-7966 | 0852-22-7699 | [email protected] | http://www.hotteterre.jp/ | Baroque recorders after Louis Hotteterre, Hallet, Rippert, Stanesby Sr, Stanesby Jr, Steenbergen, Bressan, J. Denner. | Also makes baroque flutes and oboes. |
| Yamakawa | China | Plastic neo-baroque recorders. | I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | |||||
| The Bone Art Place Ltd (Yuri Terenyi) | New Zealand (NZ) | c/- Kura Gallery, 19 Allen Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011 | +64 4 8024934 | [email protected] | https://boneart.co.nz/collections/yuri-terenyi-bone-wood | Ganassi-style recorders. Also makes bagpipes, bone pipes, tabor pipes, Hungarian 3-holed pipes, ocarinas, drone pipes, double-pipes; also puppets! | ||
| Aileen Music Nanig Aileen Trading Co., Ltd | China | RM.301/303, 3rd FL Block B, Viseen Yuhua Technology & Business Center, No 23, Andemen Street, Yu hua Tai District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, | +86-25-8453 3373 | +86-25-5807 1583 | [email protected] | https://www.aileenmusic.com/ | sSAB plastic neo-baroque recorders; Soprano wooden school recorder. | |
| Laché, Philippe | France | Hameau de St Estève, 83119 Brue-Auriac | +33(0)4 9480 9436 | [email protected] | https://www.scribd.com/doc/28165857/Plaquette-du-facteur-de-flutes-Philippe-Lache | Medieval recorders after the Dordrecht recorder; renaisance recorders after Gannassi, Rafi, & Bassano; transitional recorders after van Eyck; baroque recorders after Denner, Stanesby, Reich, Wynne, Haka, Bressan, Steenbergen, Hotteterre, Dupuis; neo-baroque recorders after own design. | ||
| Hirao Recorder Workshop Shigeharu Hirao & Seiji Hirao | Japan | 7-10-11-Nakagawa, Kohoku-ku, Yokohoma-shi, Kanagawa | [email protected] | http://hirao-recorder.com/en/about.html | Medieval recorders after the Tartu instrument; early baroque recorders after J. van Eyck; recaissance recorders after Ganassi; baroque recorders after Bressan, Heitz, Stanesby Jr, J.C. Denner, Haka, Terton, etc. | Co-designer of the Zen-On G-1A Bressan Alto recorder with Hiroyunki Takeyama. | ||
| Sans Luthier | Spain | C./ Sta. Magdalena, 2, E-17854 St Jaume de Llierca (Girona) | +34 972 28 70 95 | [email protected] | https://www.sansluthier.net | Makes 'flautas' and a 'flabiols' with various fingerings | ||
| Bernhard Mollenhauer GmbH & Co. KG | Germany | Weichselstrasse 27, 36043 Fulda | 0171 3 11 11 55 | 06656 50 43 26 | [email protected] | http://www.csakan.de/ | Csakans after Joachim Ziegler. | |
| Deitch's Woodwind Workshop Daniel Deitch & Yukari Naito-Deitch | United States of America (USA) | 2607 Clement Street (@ 27th Ave), San Francisco CA 94121 | +1(415) 221 2735 | [email protected] | https://danieldeitch.com | Repairs all woodwind instruments, but not saxes. Offers a comprehensive recorder repair & revoicing service. | Agent for Hiroyuki Takeyama recorders. | |
| Taylor Historic Music Dale Taylor | United States of America (USA) | 120 Sherwood Forest Ct, El Paso, TX 79924 | http://taylorhistoricmusic.com/ | Repairs and revoices recorders. | Website "temporarily unavailable" on 16 September 2023. I would appreciate additional and missing data on this maker. | |||
| Barett, Anthony | United Kingdom (UK) | 20 Main St, Shenstone, Lichfield, Stafforshire, WS14 0NB | +49 01543 480245 & 07983 761237 (mobile) | [email protected] | https://www.barrettrecorders.co.uk/ | Makes retrofit keywork for recorders; also offers recorder repairs. | ||
| Triebért | UK | Early Music Shop, Salts Mill, Victoria Road Saltaire, West Yorkshire BD18 3LA The Early Music Shop, 11 Denmark Street, London WC2H 8TD | +44 (0)1274 288 100 & 207 632 3960 | +44 (0)1274 596 226 & 207 632 3965 | [email protected] | https://earlymusicshop.com/collections/instruments?pf_v_brand=Triebert | Neo-baroque plastic and wooden recorders. | Available in piccolo, sopranino, tenor & basset sizes, and in black or brown plastic. These appear to be made by the Taiwanese-based company Liyun Cultural Corporation who offer these instruments under their own brand, Woodnote, as Solfege models. Also make a maple alto under this brand. |
| Chupin, Jean-Claude | France | 5 rue Jean Antoine de Baif, 44600 Saint-Nazair | +33 2 40 53 79 03 | [email protected] | http://flutes.chupin.pagesperso-orange.fr | Transitional recorders; Baroque recorders after Steenbergen | ||
| J&Y Recorder Workshop Jeoung-min Yoon | Republic of Korea | 367 Cultural Foundation Cultural Center, 1st Floor No. 107 ho, Hyunamri, Seonmyun, Chuncheonsi, Kangwondo | +82 10 5378 4343 & +82 10 5377 0177 | [email protected] | http://cafe.daum.net/jnyrecorder | Renaissance recorders after Ganassi, Baroque recorders after Bressan and Denner. | Website inactive since 1 October 2022. | |
| Barbe, Geoff | France | Le Chambon de Langlade, 07230 Saint André Lachamp | +33 04 75 39 56 92 | [email protected] | https://www.jeff-barbe.fr/ | Makes a range of bone pipes, six-holed pipes three-holed pipes, double pipes and recorders suitable for traditional, folk and medieval music. Also pan-pipes, chalumeaux, flutes, horns, etc. | ||
| Strumentide Gregorio Vincenzo de Gregorio | Italy | +39 334-3602042 | [email protected] | http://www.strumentidegregorio.it/ | Medieval recorders; renaissance recorders after Grece and Rafi; transitional recorders after van Eyck; baroque recorders after Anciuti, J.C. Denner, Hallet, Steenbergen. | |||
| Worrell, Peter | United Kingdom | 28 Hall Lane, Wacton, Norfolk. NR15 2UH | +44 01508 530378 | [email protected] | http://www.peterworrell.co.uk/ | Peter is a highly skilled woodwind-instrument maker who is able to make specialised keywork for recorders of all sizes and for those players with special needs. Examples of his work include bell-keys, lip-keys, covered-hole recorders, one-handed recorders, customized foot-joint keys, etc. | ||
| Paz, Fernando | Portugal | [email protected] | https://fernandopaz.org/ | Ganassi-style recorders, transitional (Pierre Van Eyck-style) recorders, baroque recorders after Bressan | Fernando Paz was born in Madrid in 1966. He studied at the Conservatorio Profesional P.A. Soler de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, the Royal Conservatory of Madrid, in the Regional Conservatory of Toulouse and Royal Conservatory of Brussels, specializing in recorders and baroque flute. He currently resides in Portugal combining his artistic and pedagogical activity with instrument making. | |||
| Orthwest Studios John Orth | United States of America (USA) | Golden, Colorado | [email protected] | https://orthwest.deviantart.com/ | Piccolo recorder (Garklein Flutlein) after Kynsecker; all metal neo-baroque alto recorder in aluminium. Also undertakes repair and restoration work. | John is a luthier with a focus on the restoration of antique violins but also makes recorders, bird flageolets, pan flutes, pochettes, rebecs, etc. | ||
| Vittorelli, Riccardo von | Belgium | Rue du Cerisier 127, 1490 Court-Saint-Etienne | [email protected] | http://www.woodwind-instruments.be/ | Csakans after Franz Schöllnast (Pressburg, 1830). | Also makes Clarinets, Flutes, Kavals and Tarogatos. Website inactive, 16 September 2023. | ||
| LPD Recorders Simone di Paolis | Italy | via Raffaele Cappelli jr n. 39, 67028 San Demetrio né Vestini (Aq) | [email protected] | https://www.ldprecorders.com/home/ | Medieval recorders; Renaissance recorders after Ganassi, Grece & Rafi; Baroque recorders after Bressan, J.C. Denner, Hallet, Perosa, Noblet, Stanesby Jr, Steenbergen; Romantic recorders after Francois Noblet; Neo-baroque recorders after his own design. | Also makes Clarinets, Flutes, Kavals and Tarogatos. Website inactive, 16 September 2023. | ||
| Magnin, Patrick | France | 44 bis, rue Henri Barbusse, 94450 Limeil-Brévannes | +33 (0) 6.19.43.94.33. | [email protected] | http://www.stellaire-smbs.com/Stellaire-smbs/Stellaire_-_Harmonisation_flutes_a_bec.html | Recorder revoicing and repairs. | ||
| Nieuwhof, Ben | Netherlands | http://www.nieuwhofnet.nl/ | Baroque recorders after Bressan. Also makes dulcians and cornetti | Amateur instrument maker. | ||||
| Jones, Sid | South Africa | Gauteng | [email protected] | An amateur recorder maker | ||||
| Leal, Diogo | France | Courbevoie (Paris) | +33 7 82 52 45 76 | [email protected] | https://www.diogo-leal.com/ | Ganassi-style recorders in c'', g' and f'; Baroque recorders after Bressan. | ||
| Hulsens, Marie | Spain | Carrer del Portal 6, 43393 Almoster (Tarragona) | +34 977 763 170 | [email protected] | https://www.mariehulsens.com/ | Medieval recorders after the Dordrecht and Tartu instruments; Ganassi -style, transitional and baroque recorders. | Also makes a wide range of traditional duct-flutes. | |
| Meli, Walter | Switzerland | Renaissance consort recorders | I would appreciate further details of this maker. | |||||
| Ginneken, Thomas van | (1) Netherlands (2) France | Dekkersbos 5 3956 TG Leersum Les Royeres Les Etangs 46300 Leobard - Lot | +31 343469950, mobile +31654902298 | [email protected] | https://info33063.wixsite.com/vanginnekenrecorders | Ganassi-style recorders Baroque recorders after Bressan, Denner, Stanesby Sr, Stanesby Jr, Steenbergen, Terton & Wijne | Thomas is also an accomplished recorder player. | |
| Rohmer, Joachim | Germany | Meteorstr. 6, 29221 Celle | +49 (05141) 217298 | +49 (05141) 25456 | [email protected] | https://rohmer-recorders.de/ | Ganassi-style recorder; renaissance recorders after Rafi, baroque recorders after Bressan, Denner, Stanesby | |
| Allain, Patrice | France | Roubaix 59053 | +33 06 73 94 46 14 | [email protected] | http://patriceallain-flutes.com/ | Renaissance and baroque style recorders after 16-17th-century originals | Patrice is a recorder player and bassoonist. I would appreciate further information about this maker. His website is singularly uninformative. | |
| Jin Hee Cho Blockflötenbau | Austria | Waldgasse 17/12, A-1100 Vienna | +43 676 446 46 41 | I would very much appreciate additional details concerning this maker. | ||||
| Micha Silkenat Blockflötenbau | Germany | Haegweg 5, 29303 Bergen/Offen | +49 (0) 5051 5093269 | [email protected] | https://www.blockfloeten-manufaktur.de/ | Baroque recorders after Bressan and Terton. | ||
| Mann, Terry | United Kingdom | Long Cottage, Park Ln, Castle Camps, Cambridge CB21 4SR | +44 1799 584152 | [email protected] | https://www.terrymann.net | Medieval recorders after the Elblag instrument but altered to play with Renaissance fingering over an octave and a sixth: soprano in C, alto in F and G, and sopranino in F and G. Also makes abor pipe. Shawms and rauschpfeiffen are in development. | ||
| Magalhäes, Marco | Netherlands/Portugal | +31 (0)6 1440 7151 | [email protected] | http://www.mg-woodwinds.com.ar/ | Medieval- (Dordrecht-), Ganassi- and baroque-style recorders after J.D. Denner, J. Denner, Klenig, Rottenburgh, Stanesby Sr, Stanesby Jr, & Steenbergen. | |||
| Lio, Lorenzo | Switzerland | Sankt Gallen | [email protected] | https://www.lorenzo-lio.com/ | Renaissance recorders and Baroque recorders after Koenig & Bradbury, Bressan, J-H Rottenburgh, Stanesby Sr, Stanesby Jr, Terton, J. Denner, J-C. Denner. | Works as a recorder voicer for Küng. | ||
| Darach, Jack | United Kingdom (UK) | 55-56 Islingword Road, Brighton, BN2 SL | [email protected] | https://jackdarach.com | Ganassi-style recorders; baroque recorders after Bressan, Denner, Schuchart, Terton. | |||
| Sécordel, Claire | France | 2b rue de Dachstein, F-67300 - Schiltigheim | + 33 (0)6 19 91 01 88 | [email protected] | https://www.clairesecordel.fr/ | Ganassi-style recorders; Baroque recorders after Thomas Stanesby Jnr. | Also undertakes maintenance, optimisation & repair work. | |
| Belz, Kalle | Germany | Am Dornbusch 1 36119 Neuhof-Hauswurz | +49 66 69 14 29; +49 171 64 64 164 | +49 66 69 91 80 891 | [email protected] | http://www.blockfloetenreparaturen.de/ | Offers repairs, modifications & improvements of all types of recorder and all manufacturers. | |
| Taiga Musical Art | Russia | Kuragino, Petropavlovka, Krasnoyarskiy Kray | +7 923 348-67-50 | [email protected] | https://www.facebook.com/taigamusicart/ | Recorders in a variety of keys, including G, A, Bb C, D, E. These appear to be simple instruments with Harlan (German) fingering and limited range, possibly best suited to medieval music. | It is not clear who actually makes these instruments. The business is managed by Ivan Romanov. | |
| PiezoBarrel Wind Instrument Pickups Steve Francis | Australia | Steve Francis, PO Box 55 Beenleigh QLD 4207 | [email protected] | https://www.piezobarrel.com/ | Produce piezo-electric pickups for a variety of instruments, including the recorder. PiezoBarrel pickups are designed to be simple to use and provide exceptional sound quality. The PiezoBarrel R1 is designed especially for the recorder. The recorder usually only produces a weak signal in the low register and any attempt to produce a stronger note results in the sound becoming unstable as it starts to overblow. For this reason, the R1 was designed to have a non-linear frequency response that increases the bass frequencies and thus strengthens the low register. Sound from a recorder fitted with the R1 can be passed directly to a guitar or other amplifier or via a guitar effects panel such as the Boss GT-1 for live or recorded performance. | |||
| Vries, Tom de | Netherlands | Eysingapad 30 9064 KK Aldtsjerk | [email protected] | https://devriesrecorders.nl/ | Medieval style after the Dordrecht recorder; renaissance recorders after Ganassi, Bassano; early baroque recorders; baroque recorders after Anonymous, Bassano, Bressan, Denner, Ganassi, Rippert, Stanesby Sr, Stanesby Jr, Steenbergen. | Logo: two stylized water lily leaves. See de Vries (2022). | ||
| Montero, Jorge | Chile | Santiago | +56 02-223 2891 / 8-330 5621 | Ganassi-style, Transitional recorders, Baroque recorders after Bressan. | Also makes transverse flutes and native flutes. I would appreciate further contact details. | |||
| Piepenbroek, Henk | Netherlands | Bergkamp 7, 7384 AV Wilp | +31 0571 261453 | Henk Piepenbroek makes square soprano recorders after a design by Alec V. Loretto, which in turn is based on the Dordrecht flute from the Hague municipal museum. | ||||
| Emil Becker KG Manfred Wild | Germany | Am Franzenstein 7 55743 Kirschweiler | +49 06781 33324 | [email protected] | https://en.emilbecker.de/ | Fully playable neo-baroque alto recorder. | This famous jeweler has made a series of playable musical instruments from precious materials including a clarinet, panpipes and and an alto recorder. Doubtless they will be used to play rock music. | |
| TLC Recorder John Werner | United States of America (USA) | P.O. Box 436, Montpelier, VT 05601 | +1 802-272-5397 | [email protected] | https://www.tlcrecorder.net/ | Recorder optimisation, maintenance and repairs, including retrofiting recorder blocks with a ceramic insert which absorbs moisture (as Moeck tried in the 1980s). The latter is durable and reduces clogging problems considerably. | ||
| Makers4Good | United States of America (USA) | Palo Alto, California | https://makers4good.com/pages/contact-us | https://makers4good.com/pages/recorders-for-all | Makers4Good offer the Triple Play, a very affordable adaptation designed for soprano recorder which adds keys to the bottom three holes of the instrument, rendering the full range of the recorder playable with just six fingers. The cluster of three keys augments a Yamaha YRS-24B plastic recorder. Triple Play allows the user to press multiple keys with one finger, and to change easily between keys. The keys can be operated with either hand. | |||
| Zini Recorder Workshop Cho-Jin He | Republic of Korea | Seoul 06710 | +82 10-5377-0177 | [email protected] | https://www.facebook.com/ZINIRECORDER | Wooden and plastic recorders. | See YouTube video at https://youtu.be/XyHc1yvW46s | |
| Netsch Recorders UG Ralf Netsch | Germany | Kalitzer Str. 2 39279 Möckern, OT Brietzke | +49 39245-639806 | +49 03 6645/2 1328 | [email protected] | https://www.netsch-recorders.com/ | One-off renaissance recorders after the Quedlinburger Schlossmuseum consort; Ganassi recorders; van Eyck recorders; baroque recorders after Bressan, Denner, Gahn, Grassi, Heitz, Oberlender, Schell, Stanesby Jr & Terton; modern recorders. | Also finishes instruments from the Fred Morgan workshop. |
| Blockflötenschmiede, Eric Jahn & Sophie Schmid | Germany | Am Kuhberg 9A 97080 Würzburg | +49 931-35 82 81 95 | [email protected] | https://www.floetenschmiede.de/ | Transitional, Early baroque & Baroque recorders. | Read about this new venture here | |
| Leatherman Historic Woodwinds Gary Leatherman | United States of America (USA) | Portland, OR | [email protected] | https://www.leatherman-woodwinds.com/ | Recorders based on historical baroque and renaissance designs, from measurements and drawings of surviving instruments. Bassano style renaissance recorders; baroque recorders after Terton, Bressan, Steenbergen, J. Denner. | Also undertakes, cleaning, oiling, joint maintenance - thread or cork replacement, tuning and voicing. | ||
| Fenland Recorders Stephen Toyne | United Kingdom (UK) | Wigtoft Bank, Market Deeping | 07956 325854 | [email protected] | http://www.spanglefish.com/fenlandrecorders/ | Square profile basset and sub-bass recorders | Also makes small hand-turned street organs | |
| Willman, John | United Kingdom (UK) | https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010016554975 | Medieval, renaissance, and baroque recorers after Bressan, Denner, Rippert. | John no longer makes recorders. | ||||
| Nénez, Pierre | France | +33 06 72 66 05 01 | [email protected] | http://pierrenenez.fr/ | Transitional recorder after the Århus instrument in Denmark; baroque tenor after Anciutti. | |||
| MB Instruments / Marek Bzowski | Poland | [email protected] | https://www.flute.pl/ | Medieval recorders after the Elblag, Göttingen and Puck recorders. Also whistles, tabor pipes, 6-holed pipes, fujaras, sopilkas, double recorders, transverse flutes. Undertakes conservation work on wooden instruments. | ||||
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Cite this article as: Lander, Nicholas S. 1996–2024. Recorder Home Page: Instruments: Contemporary Makers: Details. Last accessed 21 December 2024. https://recorderhomepage.net/contemporary-makers/