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On checking the websites of the major recorder makers, Moeck, Kung, and Mollenhauer, they all offer recorders in olivewood (as well as maple, plum, pear, rosewood/palisander, grenadilla, and occasionally tulipwood and cherry), and very little in European boxwood — Castello boxwood for the most part....

Olivewood is a pretty popular wood for high-end recorders. You see African blackwood/grenadilla in recorders a lot (and it’s almost universal in clarinets) but I don’t think I’ve heard of a boxwood or mopane recorder. Which also makes me wonder about why plumwood, pearwood and cherrywood, very popul...

I have one. I ordered it directly from Andy at Galeon because I didn’t yet see them on the Irish Flute Store and I preferred the rounded rectangle embouchure. It took a little over two weeks to come from China to Canada, and I got it at the end of July. So far I am very pleased with it and expect I ...

I looked on the Susato site yesterday, and noticed that their famous (or infamous, depending on one’s taste) Kildare line of whistles has been renamed the Kelischek. https://www.susato.com/collections/kildare Even though the website link is still called Kildare. I am pretty sure I checked them this ...

I bought one last year. It was the first Irish D flute I tried, mainly to check if my hands were big enough to play one. Pros: It plays at least two octaves in reasonable tune, given that I am a relatively novice flute player; I was able to play along with Steph Geremia playing scales in her Online ...