Recorder Home Page
Other Web Sites of Interest to Recorder Players
Compiled by Nicholas S. Lander
Other Recorder Sites
- flautodolce.it, from Gianluca Barbaro (Italy). News (concerts, courses events, etc.), web links, personal blog about the recorder (in Italian)
- About the Recorder in Jaz, from Gianluca Barbaro (Italy)
- Furulya.hu (Hungary), extensive web-sited devoted to the recorder
- Flûte à bec (France), extensive web-site devoted to the recorder; maintained by Pascal Premier
- YouTube: Recorder, videos of and about recorder playing – the good, the bad and the ugly!
- Fippletest (UK), illustrated site devoted to review of various makes of recorder, mostly old
- Blockflöte.de (Germany), extensive site devoted to the recorder maintained by Jo Kunath (in German)
- Algunas Partituras y Enlaces sobre Flauta Dulce (Argentina), site devoted to the recorde.
- Recorder Lessons & Resources, from Gene Casti (USA); includes sound files, online scores, historical notes
- The Recorder Player's Page, Nicholas Saers (Norway); resources for recorder players including MP3 files, online scores, Norwegian folk music for recorders
- Nederlandse Blokfluitpagina (Netherlands), in Dutch
- Recorder Home Page Japan, from Minoru Yoshizawa
- Wilson Wong's Recorder Page (USA)
- Flautissimo, from Kay Schumacher (Germany). Information on recorder makers and their products, including reviews and a discussion list (in German)
- A música brasileira para flauta doce (Brazil), from Romero Damião (in Portuguese)
- A Flauta
Doce (Brazil), from Helcio Müller. General articles on the
recorder and information on Helcio's work with the electro-acoustic
recorder (in Portuguese)
- Die
Blockflöte, from Katharina Hoeckh (Germany). Discussion forum, calendar of events, shops with new and second-hand instruments, articles (in German)
- The
Recorder in France (in French & English)
- Blokfluit & Muziek (Netherlands), recorder site maintained by Blokfluitensemble FEW, includes notes on history, repertoire (in Dutch)
- Han Hartog's Home Page (Netherlands) is no longer available.
-
Ensemble '1915b (Netherlands), recorder site maintained by a
recorder consort (in Dutch & English)
- Flauto
Nuovo - Instituut voor blokfluitonderricht in Friesland
(Netherlands)
- Stichting Open Nederlandse Blokfluitdagen Utrecht (Netherlands), organise festivals, workshops, concerts
- Korean Baroque Instruments Company, a site devoted largely to the recorder (in Korean)
- I Love
Recorder, from M. Okumura (in Japanese)
- Recorder2's Home Page, from Jim Phifer (USA)
- The International Recorder
Page, from Bob Redman (USA)
- Recorder site from Fred Kersten
(USA), includes MIDI files, tips on teaching the recorder, etc. Note: There is a serious error on this page which crashes my browser.
- Music88: Recorders & Recorder Music, from Lynda Shen (Hong Kong)
- Recorder Music, from Geoff Grainger (Germany), lists of some 180 items of music with anecdotes and other information about instruments, composers, performers, publishers, recordings
-
Flauto Suinu (Switzerland), reports on a collaborative project
between recorder player Andel Strube and PIGVISION's Raymond Rohner
to test and record the interaction between the pig's vocal
expression and the variation of recorder sounds. Includes sound
samples. A bizzare joke at the recorder's expense!
Other Instruments
Three-holed pipes (tabor pipe, txistu)
Pipes: American Indian pipe, six-holed pipe, bamboo pipes,
flageolet, penny whistle, tin whistle), Sicilian pipe (friscalettu, frautu), fujara, etc.
- Fujara, Slovak overtone bass flute, from Folkart Slovakia (Czech Republic)
- The Pleasant Companion: The Flageolets Site, from Jacob Head (UK)
- Il Flauto in Sicilia: il messinese, from Mario Sarica (Italia)
- Charles Wells (UK), maker of tabor pipes, flageolets, flutes and clarinets
- Chiff & Fipple: The PostStructural Tinwhistle Internet Community, the ultimate guide to the instrument known as the tinwhistle, pennywhistle, Irish whistle, or just plain whistle.
- Michael Burke (USA), six-holed pipes in composite (bakelite), brass, and aluminum
- Copeland Woodwinds (USA), state-of-the-art six-holed pipes in brass, nickel and sterling silver
- Busman Whistles, six-holed pipes in wood complemented by precision fittings in stainless steel or brass by Paul Busman (USA)
- Ahõken (USA), American Indian flutes by William L. Gould (USA)
- Drake Stoneware Flutes (USA), ceramic flutes, six-holed pipes and quena
- Tsunami Flutes, native American pipes
- Songbird Flutes, native American Indian style bamboo flutes by Bill Bristow
- Eagle Song Flutes, native American Indian style flutes, including kits
- Ancient Vision Native American Flutes, from Charles Littleleaf (USA)
- Native American Music, by Charles Littleleaf (USA)
- The Flute Project, from Ken Kemsi (USA), Novel instructions for making American Indian Flute
- The
Pipers' Guild of Great Britain, a charity with about 250
members, whose aims are to make, play and decorate bamboo
pipes
- Il flauto dolce di bambù, instructions for making bamboo pipes in various sizes (in Italian)
- Simple Bamboo Recorder, illustrated guide to making a bamboo pipe from Fluteman (Australia)
- The
Whistler's Page, from Patrick Ashley (USA)
- Whistling
Low: The Internet Guide to the Tenor & Alto Tin Whistle,
from Joseph Mulvanerty
- Thin Weasel Woodwinds (USA), manufacturer of tunable plastic whistles, also produces wood instruments
- Susan Rawcliffe (USA), ceramic instrument builder
- Drake Stoneware Flutes (USA), transverse, duct and end-blown, 6-holed
- Alba Whistles, Alba Aerophonics (Scotland)
flutes, whistles and flageolets handcrafted in the Highlands of Scotland from beautifully finished brushed aluminium, tufnol, wood
-
Pennywhistle in D Construction, from Dennis Havlena (USA)
-
Instructions for making a copper pennywhistle in the key of D,
from Kim Fulton-Bennett (USA)
- How I
made a Pennywhistle at Home in my Spare Time, from Eric Reiswig
(USA)
- Flute
Building Instructions for Recorders & End-Blown Flutes in
PVC, from Hans Mikelson (USA)
- The Home De(s)pot Flute, from FolkUrban Music, instructions for making a PVC pentatonic duct-flute
- Recorder [ie 6-holed pipe] Tuning Hole Placement Spreadsheet, from Ken Kemsi (USA)
- Jubilee Music Instrument Co. (USA). Daniel Bingamon makes tin whistles (some with
thumbholes!) in brass and PVC with adjustable windways
- Making a Key of D or C "Infra-Whistle", by David C. Daye (USA)
- The 'Low-Tech' Whistle, instructions for making a PVC pipe from Guido Gonzato (Italy)
Vessel flutes (gemshorn, ocarina)
- Hind Musical Instruments (USA), maker of wooden ocarinas (in walnut) and an ocarina celestina
- The Ocarina Originators Home Page
- Georgio Pacchioni (Italy), ocarina maker/player/composer and puppeteer extraordinaire!
- Clayzeness Whistleworks, ocarinas and clay flutes from Sandi and Richard (USA), includes
very comprehensive links
page
- Ocarina Workshop (UK), instruments, books, kits, cds, playalong tapes
- Basic instructions to make a gemshorn, from Melanie Wilson (USA)
- Das Gemshorn, from instrument-make Michael Hoffman (Germany)
- Werkstatt für Historische Musikinstrumente, workshop of Siegfried Jud, gemshorn maker (Switzerland)
- Making a Gemshorn, from Marc Carlson
End-blown cross-flutes (quena, shakuhachi)
Transverse cross-flutes
Capped reeds (cornamuse, crumhorn, kortholt, rauschpfieffe)
- The
Crumhorn Home Page, a useful compendium of information about
this bent & twisted instrument including where to buy one, how
to grow your own, available music, etc
Free reeds
Harpsichords
Early Music Sites
Discussion Lists/News Groups
General
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