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.

This instrument is no longer available