Making a Recorder: the Reamers

PHILIPPE BOLTON, RECORDER MAKER

Medieval, pre-baroque, and baroque recorders

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MAKING A RECORDER: THE REAMERS

Here is a series of reamers used for giving the bore its final profile and dimensions. Each one is made to measure to work in a specific part of the bore of one particular instrument.

reamers in a recorder workshop

The reamer shown here comes from the page in Diderot & Dalembert's Encyclopédie (18th century) dedicated to tools for making woodwind instruments.

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