Tenor Recorders after Jean Hotteterre by Moeck

These Moeck tenors are based on original models by Parisian instrument maker Jean Hotteterre. The Hotteterre tenor has a powerful and warm sound in all registers. The instrument is ideal for solo playing. Its wide range of 2 1/2 octaves means it can be used for most baroque flute literature. It has also proved to be successful for contemporary music because of its strong low register and volume of tone. Because of their considerable length, these instruments have keys for the lower notes. Three historical instruments have been used as models for the Moeck Hotteterre tenor - two in the Museum de la Musique in Paris, the other in the Brueggen Collection in Amsterdam. Both bear the engraved hallmark with the anchor (L'ancre noire), which is the sign of the house which Jean Hotteterre (died in 1611) owned in Alsace. From 1640 on, the Hotteterre family, in collaboration with the royal band in Paris, were responsible for creating epoch-making new baroque recorders, traverse flutes and oboes,