Our Featured Maker Blog returns during this year's Recorder31, our annual celebration of all things recorder. Today we're hearing from Patrick Von Huene about the Von Huene Workshop, and The Early Music Shop of New England (no relation to our...
To mark National Handmade Day (4th April), we’re celebrating the makers behind the instruments we offer at the Early Music Shop. We’re delighted to work with a range of specialist craftspeople, including Matias Crom, known for his beautifully made plucked...
We're pleased to present another Featured Maker interview for this month's Recorder31 programme. During the past century, Moeck have established a reputation as of the biggest recorder makers in the world and they are one of many valued suppliers of...
We’re reviving our Featured Maker blog in honour of this year’s Recorder31, our month-long celebration of the recorder, where today the spotlight is on Aafab. Known for producing the Aura and Coolsma ranges, as handed over from Hans Coolsma around...
In another Featured Maker interview for Recorder31, we are pleased to speak to a pioneering maker based in Germany. The Kunath company began life in a small garage with founder Jo Kunath producing Cornamusen. Over the years, the company has expanded...
During August, our popular recorder event Recorder31 shines a light on all aspects of the instrument from professional players to those at the start of their journey. Of course, none of this would be possible without the brilliant people who...
Welcome back to our Featured Maker series, where we interview some of the valued craftspeople who supply instruments to The Early Music Shop. This time, it's time to shine a light on the skilled luthier Matias Crom.
We spoke to Matias from his home in Buenos Aires after recently taking delivery of one of his beautiful lutes.
Our latest Featured Maker interview focusses on the supremo of spinets, Stephen Robinson. Based in Warwickshire, UK, Stephen specialises in creating spinets after the Hitchcock model in the Edinburgh University's Russell Collection of early keyboard instruments. Read on to discover...
We spoke to Guido Bizzi, founder of the company, about his musical beginnings, his home in the historic Villa Bossi and creating a new instrument for Jane Chapman. The Bizzi workshop in Northern Italy has been producing fine bowed strings...
In celebration of this weekend's National Guitar Day, we were delighted to speak to Marcos Kaiser in the first of our Featured Maker interviews. Marcos is a skilled maker of lutes, guitars, hurdy-gurdys and more, and he is a valued supplier...
