Recorder31 Day 18 | Featured Maker: Von Huene

Every year during Recorder31, we love to spotlight some of the amazing recorder makers whose instruments make up The Early Music Shop's catalogue. Today, we have an exclusive Featured Maker interview with Patrick von Huene of the Von Huene Workshop and the Early Music Shop of New England.

Von Huene offers high-quality recorders (and flutes) modelled after many of the most famous historical models. The workshop was founded in 1960 by Friedrich von Huene, a pioneer in recorder design whose design credentials include the Moeck Rottenburgh series and the Zen-On plastic range. In 1980, the Von Huene Workshop opened the Early Music Shop of New England (no relation to our business, although they remain our friends and colleagues!) – and two years later, Friedrich's son Patrick von Huene joined the business. In the years since, their company has gone from strength to strength, producing fine recorders for players the world over, and Patrick has become known as one of the world's leading specialists in recorder making, voicing and maintenance.

We've added the interview with Patrick von Huene to our Featured Makers Blog – click here to read the interview in full.

To explore the full range of Von Huene recorders available at The Early Music Shop, please click here. If there's a particular model you are interested in which isn't listed on our website, please get in touch with us and we will advise about supplying it.

Patrick Von Huene and Eric Haas kindly sent us the link to this extended documentary about their instruments and workshop, originally released in 2020. It's a fascinating watch – check it out below:

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Our audio clips come from an instrument by today's Featured Maker, Von Huene. Their Ganassi Soprano (a440) in Maple is a Renaissance-style instrument modelled on a recorder from Kunsthistorische Museum of Vienna – believed to be similar to those used by Ganassi in early 16th-century Italy. The warm, strong sound of a Ganassi instrument makes this perfect for early solo repertoire or sitting above a consort. Check out the audio clips below or follow this link to find out more about this instrument.