Early Music Sources
Compiled by Steven Hendricks and Al Cofrin.
American String Teachers Assoc./Merz-Huber Co. (Instrument Insurance)
630 Fairview Rd., Swarhmore, PA 19081 Phone: 610-544-2323
Antique Sound Workshop (not recommended)
Bechtel, Ben (bows, rebecs, vielles)
Beekhuisen, Paul (historical bagpipes)
Boston Catlines (superior gut strings)
34 Newbury, Somerville, MASS 02144 Phone: 617-776-8688 Email: catlines@aol.com
Boulder Early Music Shop (recorders, bowed strings, sheet music)
Brown, Lawrence K. (lute family, highly recommended)
Cofrin, Al (excellent Renaissance & Medieval dance collections)
Courtly Music Unlimited (sheet music and recorders)
Cronin Double Reeds (top of the line & relatively low cost shawms in authentic D & G tuning)
Dennis, Karl (violin & vielle maker)
Early Double Reed Service (double reed maintainance supplies)
Early Music Shop in Bradford, UK (good source for used instruments)
Elder, Lyn, Luthier - Lyn Elder Workshop (Lutes, Viols, Early fiddles, Hurdy-gurdies, Gittern, Cittern, Sitole, Psalteries, Miscellaneous Brass & Woodwinds)
74 North Street, Bristol, VT 05443 Phone: 802-453-3625 Email: lynelder@gmavt.net
Fischer, Steffan (excellent historical bagpipes & double reeds)
Forrester, Peter Lutes (lute & sittern family)
20 Beechwood Ave., Alymerton, Norfolk NR11 8QQ, United kingdom Phone: 01144-126 383 7711
Foster, Dan (lutes, etc)
707 Harding Ave., Blacksburg, VA 24060 Phone: 540-953-1561
Grabenstein Bows (Renaissance & Medieval bows)
Harms Historical Percussion (best Medieval & Renaissance side drums)
Hathaway, Paul (lute family, vielles, citterns)
47 Langley Dr., Wanstead, London, E11 2LN United Kingdom Phone: 0114-181 530 4317
Hendricks Music (great Renaissance arrangements)
Phone: 240-605-5030 Email: steve@thehendricks.net
House of Musical Traditions, Inc. (Mid-East Mfg. distributor)
Kopp, Jim Double Reeds (dulcian reed maker)
1106 Garden St., Hoboken, NJ 07030 Phone: 201-656-0107
Lark in the Morning (instruments - you get what you pay for, pretty good Mid-East saz,
David Brown knows Middle Eastern instruments)
Larson, Dan (strings & stringed instruments)
Lazar's Early Music (instruments)
Lehmann, Bernard (lute, vielle & rebec family)
Lewandowski, Lynne (harps, lyres, monochords, psalteries)
67 Main St., Ste. 16, Brattleboro, VT 05301 Phone:802-257-4032 Fax: 802-257-4862 Email: lynneski@sover.net
Melody's Traditional Music & Harp Shoppe (modern folk harp, Ren fifes, dumbeks, bodhran, bowed psaltry)
Mid-East Mfg, Inc (low cost mid-east percussion)
Moeck Wind Instruments (excellent recorders & double reeds)
Morse-Brown, Owen (vielles)
Moulder Double Reeds (shawms, dulcians)
175 Buxton Rd. Leek, Staffs ST13 6NF, UK Phone: +44 1538 385323
Najarian Music (extremely fine ouds from $800-1800)
Olympic Instruments (hurdy-gurdies, highly recommended)
Pringle, John (viols)
Robinson & Ross (double reeds, Med/Ren bagpipes)
131 Essex 6th floor, NY, NY 10002 Phone: 212-260-9344
Saraband Music (specialist retailer & publisher of early music, fine modern editions & facsimiles, gut strings, baroque bows. Request a catalogue - state what instrument you play. Teacher of viola da gamba)
Sweet Pipes (best prices for plastic Aulos Baroque recorders & flutes)
Thurau, Rainer M. (harps)
Unicorn Strings (high quality bowed psalteries - not a period instrument, but should have been)
Village Bazzar (professional quality mid-east percussion)
2201 N. Farwell Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53202 Phone:414-224-0506
Van Huene Workshop, Inc. (highly recommended for new & used wind instruments)
Zuchowicz, Dominik (viols, violins)
MORE INSTRUMENT MAKER LISTS:
EM FESTIVALS
Amherst Early Music Festival (highly recommended)
European Festivals Association
120B rue de Lausanne CH-1202 Geneva, Switzerland Phone:41.22.7322803 Fax: 41.22.7384012
Utrecht Early Music Festival
PO Box 734, NL-3500 AS, Utrecht, the Netherlands Phone: +31-30-362 236 Fax: +31-30-322 798
Early Music America's list of workshops around the world
EARLY MUSIC GROUPS
EM ORGANIZATIONS & PUBLICATIONS