PHILIPPE BOLTON, RECORDER MAKER

Medieval, pre-baroque, and baroque recorders

This boxwood recorder is a copy of an instrument by the famous maker Johann Christoph Denner (1655-1707). It has the same range of two and a half octaves as the alto (treble) recorder.

> The voice flute is a recorder in d. Denner's original instrument may have been a very high pitched tenor, rather than a real voice flute, which was a fairly special instrument with a wonderful low register, but a range of no more than one octave and a sixth, and only a small repertoire of its own.

Modern voice flutes and tenor recorders are often used nowadays for playing music written for the transverse flute at actual pitch.

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Philippe BOLTON,
22 Le Grand Portail, F-84570 VILLES-SUR-AUZON, France
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