PHILIPPE BOLTON

HANDMADE RECORDERS & FLAGEOLETS

VOICE FLUTE AFTER DENNER 415 Hz

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.