Wooden Flute Makers List
A-B
Aulos (Toyoma Musical Instrument Co.)
Romy Benton (no active link @ June 2011)
Phil Bleazey (newer website)
" " (older website)
Brian Byrne (no active link)
C-E
Calmont Musical Instruments (AOL webpages defunct @ 12:11:2008, but cached version available via Google)
Gonzalo Rodríguez Caride (no active link @ Nov 09)
Clive Catterall (no active link)
Forbes Christie (Windward Flutes)
Jon Cornia (Cochran Flutes) (no active link)
Eamonn Cotter (no active link)
M & E Cronnolly (UK website)
" " (US website)
Chris Dawson (Rhiannon Flutes) (no active link)
Vincenzo di Mauro (VDM Flutes)
F-I
Folkers & Powell (Inactive as makers since 2010)
Rob Gandara/The PipeMakers Union
Alan Ginsberg (no active link @ June 2011)
Michael Grinter (no active link @ June 2011, but he can be found on Facebook)
Dimitri Halby (no active link @ June 2011)
Jan Hermans Historical Woodwinds
Mark Hoza (Kything Flutes)
J-O
Pol Jezequel (PolJez Flutes)
Kevin Douglas Jones (KDJ Flutes)
(no active link @ June 2013)
Louis Jourdan (La Flute en Chantier)
Eugene Lambe (no active link @ June 2013)
Billy Miller (Windwood Flutes)
Millyard-Molem (AΩ Band Flutes)
Sam Murray (no active link @ June 2013)
Patrick Olwell (no active link)
P-T
Desi Seery (no active link @ June 2011)
Russel Serov (Serov Flutes) (no active link @ Nov 09)
Carlos Suarez (no proper website, but find him on Facebook for video advertisements of his products and contact info.)
Jonathan Swayne (no active link but address can be found by websearch)
Dave Swindler (no active link - may not be actively making currently @ Nov 08)
Doug Tipple (newer website)
" " (old web pages)
U-Z
The Von Huene Workshop & Early Music Shop of New England
Charles Wells (no active link @ Nov 09)
Sellers & Dealers
Hobgoblin Second Hand Instruments
About this list
This list is intended primarily as a resource for those seeking to buy a new wooden or folk flute or just to research the field. It is not aimed solely at the Irish Traditional Music (ITM) market. Therefore it includes currently active makers of any kind of Western European style transverse wooden flute - keyless "Irish" or "Folk" flutes, band flutes and fifes, keyed simple system flutes, period replica or “modified-based-on” Mediaeval/Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic era instruments, as well as those who make such instruments in substitute materials other than wood, makers of wooden Böhm flutes and wooden head-joint specialists. There is also a sub-list of specialist dealers in such instruments, both historic/antique and modern, aiming to include the regular, commercial dealers.
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