The Modern Recorders by Ralf Ehlert & Moeck

Moeck's Modern Recorders by Ralf Ehlert are suitable for recorder music from all styles and periods. On account of its strong tone color and volume, it is particularly suitable for playing with the piano and other "modern" instruments and is strong enough to hold its own with a Baroque orchestra. The Modern Recorders combine the advantages of various historic models: The wide conical bore provides the strength of tone of a renaissance recorder A windway designed after baroque models provides both the flexibility of sound and dynamics of a baroque recorder Due to its design, it has a large compass (2-1/2 octaves) with the advantage that the f sharp (c sharp3) no longer has to be played by the awkward closing of the bottom hole. Although the instrument is significantly longer than a standard recorder, it does not require any keys beside the double key on the foot joint in order to close the two bottom holes comfortably. The new Ehlert soprano, alto, and tenor have been modeled on baroq