Useful Information
This page is not intended to link to every possible recorder site anywhere in the world. The best page like that is Nick Lander's recorder homepage.
Another page worth checking for recorder playing information is The American Recorder Society.
A page with an online recorder teaching method is on Dolmetsch Online.
A handy resource on recorder fingerings, this site includes historical fingerings and fingering charts for specific modern makes and models: Winfried Bauer's recorder fingerings
Member links
Coach links
Recorder teachers
Recorder ensembles and ARS Chapters
- The American Recorder Society has contact information for local chapters in Worcester and Providence.
- Recorders/Early Music MetroWest
- Cantabile Renaissance Band
- Fall River Fipple Fluters
- New England Conservatory is offering a Renaissance ensemble, taught by John Tyson.
Recorder-related businesses
- The Early Music Shop of New England is the local place with the best supply of recorders and music.
- Another good local place to buy sheet music is Yesterday Service, Inc.
- Honeysuckle Music sells Recorders and Recorder Music over the internet.
- Recorder maker Ralph Ehlert
- Recorder maker Phillippe Bolton
- Unicorn Music sells new and used recorders and other recorder-related merchandise over the internet.
- Peter van Marissing's site contains easy ensemble music for beginning recorderplayers (children).
- www.flautissimo.net is an information database on recorder models, prices and so on, also an online-shop. It's still only, or mostly, in german.
- Jan Hermans, maker of renaissance and baroque recorders and of baroque flutes (traverso). www.historicalwoodwinds.be, e-mail address info@historicalwoodwinds.be. One is able to contact me on my private e-mail address: b007478@pandora.be.
Other early music-related organizations