Recorder Home Page

Instruments

The Recorder: Instrument of Torture or Instrument of Music? Instruments, from Nicholas Lander (Australia)
Recorder Makers, interactive database of extant artisans worldwide who make recorders, from Nicholas Lander (Australia)
Fabricantes de flautas, search for details of 20th-century recorder makers, from Bárbara Sela Andrés & Guillermo Peñalver (in Spanish)
Flutes/Recorders, entries from on-line Yellow Page Directory.

Recorder Retailers, interactive database of retailers worldwide who make supply recorders, from Nicholas Lander (Australia)

Bernard Boch & Richard Pick, antique instruments, including recorders
Second-hand Recorders, instruments offered for sale by visitors to this web-site
Saunders Recorders (UK), new and second-hand instruments
Unicorn Music (USA), new and second-hand recorders
Used Instrument Agency, a list of second-hand instruments which are currently offered for sale through the Early Music Shop (UK)
Secondhand Instrument Page, from Hobgoblin (London), often stock recorders
John Myatt (UK), new and second-hand woodwind and brass instruments, including recorders
Used Instruments, a list of second-hand instruments currently offered for sale by Schäfer's (Germany)
Flutes/Recorders, entries from on-line Yellow Page Directory.
Promusicfind.com, on-line marketplace for buying and selling new and used musical instruments, music, books, recordings, etc.
Net Instruments, musical instruments classifieds website
Florian Mulliere (France), antique dealer specializing in musical instruments
Music Treasures (Canada), unusual, rare, and old musical instruments for sale on-line. Warning: this site has some very intrusive pop-up advertising!
Vintage Instruments (USA), dealers, restorers & appraisers of fine musical instruments
William Petit (France), dealer in early musical instruments of all kinds
E-bay, on-line auctions, often includes musical instruments
E-bay (Australia), on-line auctions, often includes musical instruments

Original Instruments, Makers & Collections, from Nicholas Lander (Australia); includes three interactive databases supported by a comprehensive bibliography:
- Original Recorders, database of more than a 1,000 original instruments held in museums and private collections around the world
- Original Recorder Makers, database of makers whose work is represented in museums and private collections around the world
- Collections of Musical Instruments, database of public and private collections around the world whose holdings include recorders
Renaissance Recorders Database, a comprehensive documentation with critical measurements, from Adrian Brown (Netherlands)

Early Wind Instruments, from C.J. Sax (France). Includes photographic images of 100s of historic recorders. Sadly, this site has vanished.

Woodwind Instrument Makers Marks, photographic index, from C.J. Sax (France). Sadly, this site has vanished.

Les facteurs français anciens, article on French recorder makers of the 16th to 18th centuries, from Jean-Luc Manguin (in French)