List of recorder makers

Historical recorder makers

Musical instrument makers enjoyed a high reputation in the 17th and 18th centuries. Below is a brief overview of those who played a role in the history of the recorder .

• Johann Maria Anciuti (around 1720)
• Pierre Jaillard Bressan (1663–1731)
• Jacob Denner (1681-1735)
• Johann Christoph Denner (1655–1707)
• Johann Heinrich Eichentopff (1678–1769)
• Richard Haka (around 1646–1705)
• Jacques Hotteterre (around 1700)
• Hieronymus F. Kynseker (1636–1686)
• Pierre Naust (around 1660–1709)
• Johann Wilhelm Oberlender (1681–1763)
• Claude Rafi (around 1550)
• Coenraad Rijkel (1664–1726)
• Jean Jacques Rippert (around 1645-1724)
• Jean-Hyacinthe Rottenburgh (1672–1756)
• Thomas Stanesby Jr. (1692–1754)
• Thomas Stanesby sr. (1668–1734)
• Jan Steenbergen (1676-1730)
• Engelbert Terton (1676–1752)

As early as the late 15th and early 16th centuries, there were flute makers whose instruments were recognized throughout Europe. For example the Rauch family from Schrattenbach, a district of the Markt Dietmannsried in Oberallgäu. Jos Ruhe der Alte, Pfeiffenmacher from Schrattenbach, was mentioned for the first time in 1460 in a document from the prince monastery of Kempten. Over several generations, the Rauch produced flutes of various sizes and pitches, some of which are still in the instrumental and national museums of Munich, Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Salzburg, Paris, Brussels and Antwerp. The smoke flutes can be recognized by their signature, which consists of the name and two three-leaf clover leaves inclined to the right. The most notable of these recorders is now in the Vleeshuis Museum in Antwerp. It is a double bass flute 2.50 m long, made in 1535 by Caspar Rauch. This double bass flute comes from a large collection of instruments that were played in the Osterhuis, in the house of the Hanseatic merchants, in Antwerp.