ABOUT THE RECORDER

• The Recorder Home Page: a complete encyclopaedia of the recorder today with articles on almost every topic concerning the instrument.
• ERTA France : the French European Recorder Teachers Association.
• The Recorder in France: (in French & English)- the picture of the recorder situation in France.
• The European Recorder Players Society (ERPS) an international meeting point for recorder players in Europe.
• Marktplatz für Blockflötenspieler : (in German) - The recorder player's market square - events in Germany, recorder news.
• Duets for one: play-along recordings of the baroque recorder duet repertoire.
• La typologie des instruments à vent: a fascinating page by Jean-Luc Matte on recorders & wind instruments with beautiful pictures.
• flauto-dolce.it, a web site offering a lot of music for recorders online at a very reasonable price
• UNFI a French society of makers of musical instruments including recorders and flageolets

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  THE FLAGEOLET

• The French flageolet and its history, particularly in the XIXth century
• The Pleasant Companion, a lot of information about the flageolet, both French and English
• Le Flageolet Français, a site dedicated to the French flageolet

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  FINGERING CHARTS

• Winfried Bauer's interactive web site, on modern and historical recorder fingerings.

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  CONTEMPORARY MUSIC WEB SITES

• Ros Bandt, an innovative Australian composer and recorder player.
• Tempéraments A French publisher with many pieces for recorder.
• Henri-Pierre Juguet: a composer, musician & artist from western France.
• Jean-Christophe Rosaz: a French composer & arranger. There is a solo recorder piece to listen to on this web site.

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  EARLY MUSIC WEB SITES

• A web site dedicated to medieval instruments. A wealth of information here
• les Festes de Thalie   An association for the promotion of Baroque Music and Dancing, the organiser of the Brillamment Baroque en Yvelines festival, with courses and concerts.
• Association Sarabande, a society for the promotion of music, particularly early music in and around Arles, in Provence.

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  MUSIC SHOP

• L'Atelier Philidor : An excellent online Early Music Bookshop
  

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  SHEET MUSIC

• IMSLP : Downloadable public domain music
  
• Flauto Dolce : Downloadable recorder music
  

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  MUSIC PUBLISHER

• Editions Berthier-Valmusic : A wide choice of music and teaching material, including pieces for the recorder

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  TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTS

• La Flûte en Chantier, Louis Jourdan: Irish flutes.
• Pierre Olivier Ginestière: Fifes, whistles, tabor pipes (3 hole pipes) and drums.
• Bernard Loffet, Button accordeons
• Didier Jaffrédo, a French whistle enthusiast: lots of interesting pictures.
• Jean-Daniel Talma, bone flutes and gemshorns.
• Les Kalimbas du Mont Ventoux, kalimbas or "thumb pianos"

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  BAROQUE & CLASSICAL FLUTES

• Alain Polak, an excellent flute maker working in Barcelona.
• Jean-Jacques Melzer, another very good flute maker from the Paris area.

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  EARLY CLARINETS

  François Masson: beautiful handmade baroque, classical and traditional clarinets.

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  SAXOPHONES

• Vintage Sax Orange: Caroline Bourret, a saxophone specialist working in Orange, in the South of France: new instruments & mouthpieces, repairs, adjustments and sound improvement.

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  RECORDERS

• Claire Sécordel, a promising recorder maker near Strasbourg

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  RECORDER STANDS

• La Chambre d'Alienor, folding recorder stands

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  BARREL ORGANS

• Didier Bougon, a very good barrel organ maker established near to Villes-sur-Auzon.

  BOWS

• Nelly Poidevin, maker of bows for early music
• Solange Chivas, Renaissance, classical & baroque bows

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  KEYS FOR WIND INSTRUMENTS

• L'Atelier de l'Ut Custom made keys for wind instruments
• Molem Woodwind Atelier, All sorts of keys for woodwinds

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  WOODWIND AND BRASS INSTRUMENT REPAIRS

• Atelier de l'Euphonium, a repair shop for all wind instruments in the Paris area.

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  GUITARS

• Jean-Marie Fouilleul, a guitar maker established in Brittany
  
• Christophe Schuetz, a guitar maker working in Villes-sur-Auzon
  

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  EARLY STRINGS

• L'atelier Slald, psalteries, lyres, harps & other medieval plucked string instrumemnts.
• L'atelier de Claude Bertrand, psalties, dulcimers, citterns etc...
• Hubert Dufour, Fiddles & viols (he also makes electric viols)
• Benjamin Margotton makes lovely copies of stringed instruments from the Middle Ages & Antiquity.
• Reinier Staats, Bowed psalteries & rebecs with a wonderful haunting sound.

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  OTHER EARLY INSTRUMENTS

• Jeff Barbe, traditional & early flutes.
• Atelier Tri Nox Samoni, early wind & string instruments.

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  MUSICIANS & ENSEMBLES

• Les Pantalons, an ensemble playing the French flageolet, the recorder of the 19th century.
• Trouvère Medieval Minstrels, an interesting English group specialised in music of the Middle Ages, particularly that of the thirteenth century.
• Nathalie Rotstein-Raguis, a recorder player who has written an interesting method for the soprano recorder.
• La Lusciniole A young group mingling voices and recorders to tell new and age-old stories
• La Rêveuse a French chamber ensemble dedicated to music of the XVIIth century.
• Ensemble Dolcimelo : four French recorder players, and a very interesting repertoire, from the XVth century to our time.
• Flor Enversa : the art of the troubadours of the XIIth & XIIIth centuries.
• Jill Kemp : a young English virtuoso recorder player, with a wide repertoire from van Eyck to the our time.
• David Bellugi : A brilliant soloist, who teaches at the "Luigi Cherubini" Conservatory in Florence, specialised in both early and contemporary music.
• Kopanitza productions, a society established in Crest (Southern France), producing early music and folk music concerts.
• Carolan & C^o : an ensemble from Brittany whose repertoire includes celtic music and a selection of renaissance and baroque tunes.
• Le Trio Uccellini: three players dedicated to the recorder and its repertoire, from the Renaissance to the Baroque periods.
• Le Masque, an group of musicians specialised in European music of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries.
• la Compagnie de l'Alchimie, musique of the Renaissance & Baroque periods, from France, england and Italy.
• Claire Devilleneuve, recorder player and cellist

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  EARLY DANCING

• Morescarole, a Medieval Dance Company from the South of France
• A Baroque Dancing Workhop in the Paris area, with tuition by Annabelle Blanc

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  MUSIC TUITION

• learnrecorder.com an online recorder tuition web site in english
• blockflotelernen.com, the same recorder tuition web site in German
• Musimos: software for learning music (including the recorder)

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  SOME FESTIVALS

• Le Son Continu, traditional & folk music in the park of the Château d'Ars, near La Châtre
• The Villes-sur-Auzon Jazz Festival ... some wonderful moments under the old trees in the village

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  AUDIO AND VIDEO DIGITAZATION

• Remix Numérisation : long term preservation of magnetic tapes, audio cassettes, vinyl records etc.

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  ARTS AND CRAFTS :

• Ventoux Métiers d'Art An association of craftsmen and craftswomen established around Mont Ventoux

  
  The Vaucluse Guild Chamber

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  CHAMBRE D'HOTES (BED & BREAKFAST) IN VILLES SUR AUZON

• La Sarrasine

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  and...SOME PERSONAL FAVOURITES...

• L'invitation au voyage, musical interviews with Marc Dumont (in French).