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Available from ARS Business Members

We invite you to contact the following members of the ARS regarding their various areas of expertise. Listing here does not imply ARS endorsement of any specific products. Specific information is supplied by Business Members for the annual Focus on ARS Business Members (published each November in American Recorder.

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AMERICAN ORFF-SCHULWERK ASSOCIATION

Katharine Johnson, Executive Director
PO. Box 391089, Cleveland, OH 44139-8089; 440/543-5366; 440/543-2687 fax; info@aosa.org; www.aosa.org

AOSA is a professional association of music and movement educators whose purpose is to promote the teachings and philosophy of Carl Orff. The association has approximately 5,000 members and 118 local chapters, holds an annual conference each November, and publishes The Orff Echo magazine and Reverberations newsletter quarterly.

BOULDER EARLY MUSIC SHOP

Carol and Kim Deihl
PO Box 900, Ouray, CO 81427; 800/499-1301; 970/325-4154; Fax: 970/325-418; info@bems.com; www.bems.com

BEMS specializes in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque sheet music, facsimiles, instruments, accessories, and gifts for all levels from beginning student through professional. Order on our secure website or by phone. We ship worldwide. Visit our shop in the spectacular mountains of Ouray, CO.


CLARION ASSOCIATES, INC.

The American Recorder Society reminds its members about a group instrument insurance benefit for ARS member through Clarion Associates, Inc. For more information, call (800) 818-2534 (VIVALDI); or fax (631) 423-2821; or e-mail clarion@clarionins.com; or visit Clarion's Website at www.clarionins.com.
 

COLLINS & WILLIAMS HISTORIC WOODWINDS

Lee Collins
5 White Hollow Rd., Lakeville CT 06039; 860/435-0051 Phone/Fax; lee@leecollins.com; www.leecollins.com

Restoration, repair, and maintenance of fine instruments. We offer authorized repair service for Moeck, Zen-On, Coolsma, Aura, Mollenhauer, and other makers of quality instruments worldwide.

COURTLY MUSIC UNLIMITED, INC.
 
Richard and Elaine Henzler
3785 Main Street, Warrensburg NY 12885-1665; 800/274-2443; 518/623-2867; Fax: 518/623-2869; richie@courtlymusicunlimited.com; www.courtlymusicunlimited.com 

Everything for the recorder enthusiast! Coolsma, Dolmetsch, Moeck, Mollenhauer, Yamaha, Zenon recorders, historical woodwinds, percussion and other folk instruments. Sheet music, method books, fingering charts, thumbrests, books, humidifiers, note cards, tuners, cases, music clips, oil, cork grease, metronomes, recorders stands, duponol, music stands, and swabs. 

HONEYSUCKLE MUSIC

Jean Allison-Olson
1604 Portland Ave., St. Paul MN 55104; 651/644-8545; jean@honeysucklemusic.com; www.honeysucklemusic.com

Carrying Yamaha, Aulos, Zen-on, Moeck, Kelhorn, Dolmetsch, Aura, Mollenhauer, Adler, Paetzold, and Küng recorders as well as recorder method books and wide variety of sheet music, recorder cases, stands, rests, and other accessories. Also carry music for flutes, crumhorns, ocarina, tabor pipe, native flute, tin whistle, bodhran, guitar, strings, fiddle, dulcimer, harp, reed, harmonica, bagpipe, keyboard, dulcimer, voice, and choral music.

 

LAZAR'S EARLY MUSIC

Bill Lazar
292 Gibraltar Dr., #108, Sunnyvale CA 94089; 866/511-2981 (toll free inside U.S.) or 408/734-4920; Fax: 408/705-1960;
JBLazar@aol.com; http://LazarsEarlyMusic.com 

We sell Moeck, Mollenhauer, Küng, Yamaha, Paetzold square bass, Dolmetsch, Ehlert handmade recorders, Boudreau's Aesthé recorders; Moeck and early winds. Cíp gemshorns, optimized crumhorns, Wendy Gillespie (Lu-Mi) Chinese viols and bows, Chris English and Louis Begin viol bows, Puchalski vielles, music, and accessories. Keys added, necks bent (painless). Personal service and advice. Instruments gladly sent on approval. Very competitive prices.

MAGNAMUSIC DISTRIBUTORS, INC.

Madeline Hunter
74 Amenia Union Rd, Sharon CT 06069; 888/665-2721; Fax: 860/364-5168;
magnamusic@magnamusic.com; www.magnamusic.com 

Importer/distributor of recorders, historical woodwind instruments, shakuhachi. Magnamusic holds one of the largest inventories of early and contemporary sheet music available in the U.S. & Canada. Free catalogs. Prompt, friendly service. 10 percent discount on purchases made by ARS Members.

MOECK MUSIKINSTRUMENTE UND VERLAG E.K.

Sabine Haase-Moeck (U.S. agent: see Magnamusic Distributors, Inc.) 
Lückenweg 4 D-29227 Celle GERMANY; 49-05141088530; Fax: 49-05141-885342;
info@moeck-music.com; www.moeck-music.com

PRB PRODUCTIONS

Peter R. Ballinger or Leslie J. Gold
963 Peralta Ave., Albany CA 94706-2144; 510/526-0722; Fax: 510/527-4763; PRBPrdns@aol.com; www.PRBmusic.com

Since 1989, PRB Productions has specialized in publishing high quality performing editions of instrumental and vocal music from the Baroque and Classical era, as well as orifinal contemporary works for early and modern instruments and voices. We also provide customized music typesetting services by special arrangement. Especially for recorders, Fraces Blaker's Recorder Player's Companion, contemporary works by Goldstein, Seibert, and others, baroque polychoral motets by Bassana and Gabrieli, and madrigal books by Gibbons and Monteverdi. PLease request a free catalog for a complete list of our editions.

PRESCOTT WORKSHOP

Thomas M. & Barbara C. Prescott
14 Grant Rd., Hanover NH 03755-6615; 603/643-6442; Fax: 603/643-5219; recorders@aol.com; www.prescottworkshop.com 

Prescott Workshop is devoted to making copies of historical woodwinds of the finest possible quality. All instruments are personally made by master-craftsman Thomas M. Prescott, who founded the workshop in 1974.

PROVINCETOWN BOOKSHOP

Joel Newman
246 Commercial St., Provincetown MA 02657; 508/487-9651; Fax: 508/487-3286

Pioneering in recorder and viol music mail order since the late 1950s. We offer a list of almost 50 editions of recorder ensemble music by Andrew Charlton, David Goldstein, and Joel Newman.

RHYTHM BAND INSTRUMENTS, INC.

Bob Bergin
P.O. Box 126, Fort Worth TX 76101-0126; 800/424-4724 or 817/335-2561; Fax: 800/784-9401 or 817/332-5654; sales@rhythmband.com; www.rhythmband.com 

RBI takes a great deal of pride in providing top-quality products and service to music educators throughout the United States and many other countries. Each staff member at RBI remains committed to upholding the tradition, that was established in 1961 when the company was founded, of being the leader in supplying musical instruments for preschools and elementary schools. U.S. distributors of Aulos recorders, plus Sweet Pipes recorder publications, Chromaharps, bell sets, and a wide selection of percussion instruments.

SCHOTT & CO., LTD.

Natalia Balfour
48 Great Marlborough St., London, W1F 7BB, ENGLAND; 020-7437-1246; Fax: 020-7437-0263; marketing@schott-music.com; www.schott-music.com 

Recorder sheet music and method books.

SWEET PIPES INC.

Jeanne Cox
2300A Michigan Ct., Arlington TX 76016; 800/446-1067 or 817/277-9922; Fax: 800/576-7608 or 817/277-9933; spmus@aol.com; www.sweetpipes.com 

Our goal and pledge to present only the best quality recorders, finest recorder publications for making music, and the fastest and most caring service available in the industry. We continue on in the same tradition established by Gerry and Sonya Burakoff, our founders. Publishers of recorder materials for students, teachers, and performers; method books, solos, ensembles, editions of early music, miscellaneous recorder items, and Aulos and Yamaha quality plastic recorders.

TOYAMA MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CO., LTD.

Takamura Toyama (U.S. Agent: see Rhythm Band Instruments, Inc.)
41, Oharacho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 174 JAPAN; 81-3-3960-8305; oversea@toyamagakki.co.jp

Toyama manufactures recorders under the Aulos brand, along with a broad line of elementary musical instruments.

VON HUENE WORKSHOP/EARLY MUSIC SHOP OF NEW ENGLAND

Nikolaus von Huene
65 Boylston St., Brookline MA 02445-7694; 617/277-8690; Fax: 617/277-7217; sales@vonHuene.com; www.vonHuene.com 

The Von Huene Workshop, Inc., founded in 1960 by Friedrich and Ingeborg von Huene, makes, sells, and repairs in fine Renaissance and Baroque historical woodwinds. Its affiliate, the Early Music Shop of New England is a retail store and mail-order division of the von Huene Workshop that sells recorders, flutes, reed instruments, early keyboards, sheet music, and related items. We are happy to send instruments on approval for those players who wish to compare before making a commitment.

 

 

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