baroque flute - Folkers and Powell: Historical Flutes
Folkers & Powell make professional-quality baroque flutes and other historical transverse flutes closely modeled on excellent original designs from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
FOLKERS & POWELL; Welcome! - baroque flute
Today the "baroque" flute (a wooden transverse flute with seven open fingerholes and one silver key) has once more become familiar in concerts and on CD. But as yet only a few of the many eighteenth-century models, and still fewer renaissance, classical, …
For more information on historical flute fingerings, see Margaret N. Neuhaus, The Baroque Flute Fingering Book, Second edition, available at flutehistory.com. Details of how to play in tune on a baroque flute can be found on the Tuning and Intonation page at flutehistory.com.
FOLKERS & POWELL: I.H. Rottenburgh - baroque flute
Makers of two dozen baroque and classical flutes scrupulously copied after historical models; information and research tools.
FOLKERS & POWELL: Bressan - baroque flute
Makers of two dozen baroque and classical flutes scrupulously copied after historical models; information and research tools.
FOLKERS & POWELL: Quantz - baroque flute
The Quantz flute plays with a magnificent golden tone, particularly strong and clear in the lower part of the first octave. Its excellent intonation makes playing pure 3rds and low leading-tones easy, just as Quantz's rational tuning scheme dictated.
FOLKERS & POWELL: Eichentopf - baroque flute
Makers of two dozen baroque and classical flutes scrupulously copied after historical models; information and research tools.
flutehistory.com: Welcome
This site contains information and resources for learning about the transverse flute and flute-playing in Western Europe and America over the past 800 years. It's designed for players of the modern instrument as well as earlier types, such as renaissance and baroque flutes.
FOLKERS & POWELL: Hotteterre - baroque flute
Makers of two dozen baroque and classical flutes scrupulously copied after historical models; information and research tools.
FOLKERS & POWELL: Renaissance flutes - baroque flute
Our renaissance flutes are made in sets of tenor and bass when playing together as a whole consort. We also offer tenor flutes for playing alone or in a mixed consort with other instruments such as cornetts, strings, keyboards, and lutes.