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Compiled by Nicholas S. Lander
Piers Adams (UK)
Heinz Amman (Switzerland)
Giacomo Andreola
Pieter Bakker (Netherlands)
David Bellugi (Italy)
Bill Blackford (Xiamen, China)
Stephan Blezinger (Germany)
Jean-Luc Boudreau
M.C. Jan Bouterse (Netherlands)
Gerhard Braun (Germany)
Adrian Brown
Hans-Joachim Burger
Lucia Becker Carpena (Brasil)
Jean Sebastien Catalan (Germany)
Clive Catterall (UK)
- A notch-flute for recorder players, describes an instrument designed for recorder players, in effect a recorder without a windway played like a shakuhachi or quena allowing far greater dynamic variation than a conventional recorder
Dan Chernikoff (USA)
Racheal Cogan (Australia)
- Asialink, India 2003, an account of Racheal's musical experiences in Chennai/Madras, India
- It's not all Greek to me!, an account of Racheal's musical travels in Macedonia, Greece and Crete; from American Recorder, November 2002.
Benjamin Gunnar Cohrs (Germany)
Gary Cook (UK)
Bob Corbett (USA)
- The Recorder, a delightful account of playing his recorder to the inhabitants of a remote village in Haiti.
Tim Cranmore (UK)
Nikolaus Delius (Germany)
Ray & Lee Dessy (USA)
- The
Joys of Busking
- The
Recorder Blues, how to get started with Blues recorder
- Wood,
Oil & Water, everything you wanted to know about the physics &
chemistry of the piece of wood that is your recorder, including advice on what
oils to use, when to oil, how to make your own recorder oil & windway
decongestant solution, notes on alternative materials from which to make
recorders. Oils just ain't oils!
- The Clay Pot that Sings: The Ocarina of Time, a fascinating guide to the recorder's near relative by Ray and Lee Dessy (USA) [PDF format]
- Sound-Off: Recorder Mikes: What Sounds Good, Is Good!, Have an itch to try a microphone with your recorder? Are you afraid of the electrons and the vocabulary? Worried about what your colleagues will think of you? Want some hints on how to begin? Start with this highly informative article by Ray Dessy (USA) [PDF format]
Dolmetsch Musical Instruments (UK)
Yvonne Drynda (Germany)
Ralf Ehlert & Sabine Haase-Moeck
Jan Enberg (Sweden)
Romà Escalas (Spain)
John Everingham (UK)
Paolo Faeti (Italy)
Johannes Fischer (Germany)
Michael Form (Switzerland)
Tom Godin (Canada)
Dinnie Goedhart (Netherlands)
David Green (USA)
Ilona Hanning (Germany)
Walter van Hauwe (Netherlands)
Julie Pi Hedeboe
- Über den Daumen gepeilt, a study of Michala Petri's thumb technique by Julie Pi Hedeboe; from Windkanal 2: 20-21 (2001) [PDF format]
Heidecker (Germany)
Nick Horn
Dirkjan Horringa (Netherlands)
Susan Taylor Howell
Friedrich von Huene
Erik Jahn (Germany)
Ted Jerome (USA)
- Orkon, photographs and documents concerning this keyed recorder invented and marketted by Edward V. Powell in the 1950s
Makoto Kajitani (Japan)
- Introduction to MUBOT (Musician Robot), concerns the development of robotic musicians; includes papers, photographs, and sound files of a performance by an ensemble of robots playing recorder, violin & cello
- Development of Musician Robots, describes MUBOT, a robot system that can play a recorder, violin or cello automatically. From Journal of Robotics & Mechatronics 1: 254-255 (1989).
- Simulation of Robotic Performances, describes MUBOT robotic systems which perform on recorder, violin or cello alone or in ensembles. From Journal of Robotics & Mechatronics 4(6): 462-465 (1992).
Martin Kirnbauer (Switzerland)
Jolande van der Klis
Korean Baroque Instruments Company
Daniel Koschitzki (Netherlands)
Andreas Küng (Swiss)
Jo Kunath (Germany)
Nicholas Lander (Australia)
- An interview with Nicholas Lander, from Andrew Mayes, Recorder Magazine 10(2): 50-53 (2000)
- Ein Interview mit Nicholas Lander von Andrew Mayes, Windkanal 3/00: 14-19 (2000)
- The
Recorder: Instrument of Torture or Instrument of Music? history,
technique, repertoire, recordings, courses, societies, makers, references
- A
Memento: The Medieval Recorder, surviving specimens, iconography,
etymology, literary references, modern reconstructions, references
- A
Pipe for Fortune's Finger: The Recorder in Literature & Art,
illustrated lecture concerning the recorder, its name, associations with the
supernatural, disorder, pastoral & amorous activities, the recorder in the
twentieth century
David Lasocki (USA)
Paul Leenhouts (Netherlands)
- A Noble Noyse of Musicke: Die Anmut und Würde englischer Instrumentalmusik von 1540-1620
- Teil 1, from Windkanal 2 (1999)
- Teil 2, from Windkanal 3 (1999)
- Portrait: Paul Leenhouts, from Windkanal 4 (2003).
Clara Legêne (Netherlands)
Volker Leiss (Germany)
Francesco Li Virghi (Italy)
Hans-Martin Linde (Switzerland)
Bob Marvin (Canada)
Matthias Maute
Michel Meynaud & Johannes Fischer (Germany)
- Cross-Interview: Michel Meynaud im Gespräch mit Johannes Fischer, a discussion between these two composers
- Teil 1, from Windkanal 3 (1997)
- Teil 2, from Windkanal 1 (1998)
Hermann Moeck
Mollenhauer (Germany)
Helcio Müller (Brasil)
Ölquellen
Susan O'Neill (UK)
- Recorders Rubbished! The Young People and Music Participation Project (Keele University 2001), find that the recorder was the least favourite of musical instruments in a survey of 1,209 pupils, even though it was the one played by the largest number
Kees Otten (Netherlands)
Stefaan Ottenbourgs (Germany)
Joachim Paetzold (Germany)
Ingrid Pearson (Australia/UK)
- Delicacy,
Sentimentality and Intimacy: The Chalumeau as 'Signifier', by Ingrid
Pearson (Australia/UK), asserts (rather than demonstrates) that "it is certain
that experimentation in the workshops of Denner, Oberländer and Kelmer during
the late 17th and early 18th centuries was motivated by a recognition of the
recorder's inability to cope dynamically within the developing orchestral
medium" and "we can only but blame early 18th century composers' fascination
with the sonic novelty of the chalumeau for the demise of the recorder"
Dorothee Oberlinger (Germany)
Michala Petri
Philipp Pickett (UK)
Barnaby Ralph (Australia)
Patricia Ranum (USA)
Jochen Reinecke (Germany)
- Kleine Hetzschrift, by
Jochen Reinecke (Germany), a humourous but hard-hitting critique of the
recorder which really throws down the gauntlet, calling for its extermination.
It seems to take off where Theodor Adorno (1956) left off with his description
of the sound of the recorder as "the most frightful death of the revived,
continuously dying Pan"! (in German)
Geoff Raskin (USA)
Kay Reinhardt (Germany)
Eduard Valdivia Rivera (Germany)
Andrew Robinson (UK)
Ronald Roseman
- Baroque Ornamentation, by Ronald Roseman (USA), from Journal of The International Double Reed Society 3 (1975)
Gisela Rothe (Germany)
Anthony Rowland-Jones (UK)
Ian Shanahan (Australia)
Heike Schmidt (Germany)
Bábara Sela Andrés (Spain)
Nadja Schubert (Germany)
Terry Simmons (Australia)
Peter Sinnaeve (Belgium)
Bart Spanhove (Belgium)
Nina Stern (USA)
Helge Stiegler (Austria)
Nikolaj Tarasov (Germany)
- Mozart und
Blockflöte: Gibt es mehr Blockflötenmusik als man denkt?!, music by members of the Mozart family arranged for duct-flutes, from Windkanal 1 (1998)
- De gläserne Blockflötenspieler, from Windkanal1: 6-9 (1999) [PDF format]
- Portrait:
Joachim Paetzold – Lorbeeren zum 77. des Meister Paetzold, portrait of
this innovative recorder maker, from Windkanal 3 (1998)
- Von Pflock bis Blöte
… 1001 × Blockflöte: Erata, Synonyma, Wortspiele … , from Windkanal 3 (1999), an etymological tour de force
- Vivaldis 4. Flautinokonzert, from Windkanal 4 (1999)
- Neus von Beethoven: Csakan-Recherchen beim großen großen Wiener Klassiker
- Teil 1, from Windkanal 3 (2000) [PDF format]
- Teil 2, from Windkanal 4 (2000) [PDF format]
- Gyula Foky-Gruber: Nik Tarasov traf den ungarischen Komponisten, Flötenbauer und -spieler, from Windkanal 4: 14-17 (2000) [PDF format]
- Blockflötenunterricht in der ersten Hälfte des 20.Jhr., from Windkanal 4: 23-26 (2001). Review and commentary on a book by Gabrielle Puffer [PDF format]
- Die Blockflö.ten der Accademia filarmonica di Bologna. Windkanal 3: 6-11 (2004). [PDF format]
- Flauti dolci bolognesi II., from Windkanal 4: 12-17 (2004). [PDF format]
- Peter Harlan im Spiegel Geschichte
- James Dean & Blockflöte: Jimmy is anders, from Windkanal 4 (2005)
Tekknolith – akka Marco (Germany)
Philipp Tenta (Austria)
Sally Terris (USA)
Antonio Torralba (Spain)
Ulrich Thieme (Germany)
David Tredenick (Australia)
John Turner (UK)
Useless Information Website
- The Matchstick Man, describes and illustrates the work of Jack Hall (?-1993), a British sailor aboard the tramp steamer Eastwick, who made a number of playable musical instruments from matchsticks, including a recorder!
Daniel Waitzman (USA)
- Up from
Authenticity, a personal memoir which includes an account of Dan's
experience with the modified bell-keyed recorder developed by him
Renee Veenstra (Netherlands)
Cesar Villavicenzio (Peru/Netherlands)
- Recorder and Electronics, describes the author's adaptation of the MIDIfied electronic contrabass recorder of Michael Barker
Joan Vives (Spain)
Rodney Waterman (Australia)
Thiemo Wind (Netherlands)
- Jacob van Eyck, biographical notes
- Der Fluyten Lust-hof, introduction and background
- Chain Variations in van Eyck's Der Fluyten Lust-hof, from American Recorder, 28(4): 141-144 (1987).
- Jacob van Eyck's Der Fluyten Lust-hof: Composition, Improvisation, or … ? Consequences for Performance Practice, from Lasocki (ed.), The Recorder in the Seventeenth Century - Proceedings of the International Recorder Symposium, Utrecht 1993 (Utrecht, 1995). Pp. 177-195.
- Jacob van Eyck and his Euterpe oft Speel-goddinne, from American Recorder, 27(1): 9-15 (1986).
- 'Je ne puis eviter': 17de-eeuwse blokfluitvariaties van een Nederlandse 'groupe des trois', from Musica Antiqua 10 (3): 104-111.
- Die Psalm-Variationen Jacob van Eycks: Geschichte, Analyse, Interpretation, from Tibia, 1/90 (1990), 22-32.
- 'Some Mistakes or Errors', from Recorder Magazine 11 ( 3): 82-86 (1991).
- 'Stemme nova' – eine neuentdeckte Komposition Jacob van Eycks, from Tibia, 2/1993: 466-469.
- Why the duets from Der Fluyten Lust-hof are not by Jacob van Eyck, from Recorder Magazine, 16(2): 44-48 (1996).
- Jacob van Eyck gets a medal, from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2007, 4.
- A Van Eyck discovery in Antwerp, Belgium, from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2007, 3.
- Jacob van Eyck in literature: The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco, from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2007, 2.
- Jacob van Eyck gets a memorial stone, from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2007, 1.
- The titles of Jacob van Eyck's collections, from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2006, 4.
- Jan Baptist Verrijt: A carillon (and recorder) pupil of Jacob van Eyck, from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2006, 3.
- The 'Fantasia & Echo' and recorder dynamics, from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2006, 2.
- A genuine signature of Jacob van Eyck. from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2006, 1.
- 'Rosemont' : Pulling down, building up, from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2005, 4.
- Composition or improvisation: what 'Van Goosen' reveals, from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2005, 3.
- Plea for a monophonic Van Eyck, from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2005, 2.
- Van Eyck's outdoor performance as a reference: mind the pitfalls, from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2005, 1.
- Coridon and Amarillis: recorder echoes in a Dutch play of 1634, from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2004, 4.
- 'Amarilli mia bella' : Jacob van Eyck's melodic model, from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2004, 3.
- Jacob van Eyck's variations on 'Comagain': AABB or ABB? from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2004, 2.
- Music for the Janskerkhof (2): 'Wat zalmen op den Avond doen', from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2004, 1.
- Music for the Janskerkhof (1): 'De lustelycke Mey', from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2003, 4
- Jacob van Eyck's publisher: Paulus Matthijsz, from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2003, 3
- 'Courante, of Ach treurt myn bedroefde': Jacob van Eyck leaving the beaten track, from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2003, 2
- Lodewijk Meyer, a contemporary fan of Jacob van Eyck, from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2003, 1
- An 18th-century source of the Batali, from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2002, 4
- Pavaen Lachrymae / Pavane Lacryme; or How an Editor tried to help Van Eyck (and finally did),
from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2002, 3
- Courante Mars: variations (re?)united, from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2002, 2
- Jacob van Eyck and poverty: a revaluation of the evidence, from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2002, 1
- Stil, stil een reys: A New Reconstruction, from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2001, 4
- The house where Jacob van Eyck lived . . ., from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2001, 3
- On the origin of Beginnende door reden ons gegeven (NVE 142), from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2001, 2
- Jacob van Eyck in Nimegue, 1651, from Jacob van Eyck Quarterly 2001, 1
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