Deitch builds baroque flutes when he's not repairing and restoring contemporary woodwind instruments. Kim Komenich/The Chronicle Daniel Deitch works in his workshop in San Francisco, Calif., on ...

Fingering charts were especially important for professional Renaissance and Baroque woodwind players, who probably all played multiple instruments such as recorder, crumhorn, and dulcian.

On Saturday, May 27, the church hosts a much rarer Italian Baroque gem: Giovanni Bononcini’s oratorio La Maddalena a’ piedi di Cristo on period instruments. Performances of a more intimate nature ...

As a maker of baroque woodwind instruments myself, I would like to share the schizophrenic pressure of my work: on the one hand trying to please customers who want a “copy” of a period ...

From the beginning, Mr. von Huene’s instruments drew attention and praise. While working in Boston in the late 1950s as an apprentice to Verne Q. Powell, a well-known maker of flutes and ...

The saxophone, by contrast, wasn’t invented until the mid-19th century, so it missed the Baroque and Classical periods entirely and, ... the saxophone is a woodwind instrument made of brass.

Recorders, the woodwind music instruments, ... (SOUNDBITE OF AMSTERDAM BAROQUE ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCE OF BACH'S "CANTATA NO. 182") RASCOE: ...

Since the Baroque period, violins have more or less always been included in orchestral scores. Orchestras specialising in Baroque music tend to be much smaller and more focused on string instruments.

Naomi: This is an organ, a popular instrument of the Baroque period. It’s a little bit like woodwind or brass instruments, because it uses air to produce sound - the air is blown through the ...