Instruments

The recorder demonstrably is one of the oldest instruments actually. Historically seen, it was most popular in the 17th century. But during the hiking movement of the youth in the 20s of the 20th century the recorder was rediscovered due to its easy play, which allows the player quick learning progresses, and due to its size, which made it easy to carry along.
The playing of recorder further increased with the research for sources of historic playing techniques and original instruments in the 1960s and '70s. This led to a remarkable quality intensification of the recorders on the market. Beyond the traders of the instruments there are some recorder makers that specialized on the single-making of recorders and the support for the recorder players, just like the specialists for any other orchestra instrument.
My shop in Bremen – founded in 1986 as the first specialized shop ONLY for recorder and the according accessories – is considered and known as one of the best adresses for an excellent variety and range of recorders as well as for any service concerning any instrument in my affiliated workshop.
From my own workshop You can compare the handmade single-instruments with those of the following chosen producers:
Aura, Huber, Marsyas, Küng, Moeck, Mollenhauer, Takeyama, Yamaha, Zen-On, Paetzold, Dolmetsch, Bodil Diesen, Friedrich von Huene, Stephan Blezinger, Ralf Netsch, Martin Prätorius, Ralf Ehlert, Yoav Ran and Peter van der Poel.

Those recorders are made from different kinds of wood. Handmade baroque-instruments are only made from european boxwood or grenadilla. The series-made recorders are made from a larger variety of woods which include:
maplewood, pearwood, cherry wood, plum wood, tropic boxwood, palisander, ebony, grenadilla, olive wood, rose wood and bubinga.
Of course, all popular recorder sizes are available in my shop. You will always find:
Garklein-flutes, sopranino-recorders,
soprano-recorders, treble-recorders,
tenor-recorders, bass-recorders,
great-bass-recorders, sub-bass-recorders,
voiceflutes , renaissance-recorders and plactic-recorders ready to be played.
Furthermore I have a small and nice assortment of historical instruments in store. Among those are crumhornes, transverse-flutes, dulcians and cornetts.
Did i confuse You more than I helped you?
Then call me or one of my colleagues, or write us. We would be glad to help you.
Phone: 49 (0) 421 - 70 28 52
E-mail:
Blockflötenzentrum Bremen
Margret Löbner
Osterdeich 59a
D-28203 Bremen
Germany