Former Mateki Flute closed its business by the end of 2011. --> inherited by the new company Flute Kobo (atelier) Mateki from 6 Jan 2012.
Updated! Added couple of pages including Sakurai Flute.
Updated! Added couple of pages including Sakurai Flute.
Flute Makers
| Bernhard Hammig | *Language in German, English and Italy. (formerly Johannes Hammig brand.) While iInheriting superb characteristics of his grand father Johannes Hammig, Bernhard Hammig is much modernized: easier to play and has large volume (IMHO). Mechanics could be better, but anyway I love it by its unexceptionable tone. Since the site opened, one photo taken by Ryuta being used in Silver flute page. I was so surprised and happy when I got the e-mail from Mr. Bernhard Hammig. |
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| Philipp Hammig&August Richard Hammig - Making of Boehm-flutes | *Also makes Karl.Chr.Lederer flutes. New brand Johannes Gerhard Hammig Piccolo started from 24 Oct 2002. | |
| Muramatsu Flute | *In English, Italiano, Espanol, Simplified Chinese, Japanese. Many information in Japanese page. Can search musics and CDs in Japanese page. | |
| Brannen Brothers | *Makes regular flute, the Brögger Flute, and Kingma System Flute which can play full quartertone scale. | |
| Keefe Piccolo | *Piccolo Section of Brannen is sold to formerly Brannnenn Piccolo Constructer Mr.Keefe | |
| Wm. S. Haynes | ||
| Verne Q. Powell Flutes | ||
| Burkart-Phelan | ||
| Nagahara Flutes | ||
| Sheridan Flute Company | ||
| Sakurai Flute | *Makes flute in incredebly wide range of materials including ceramic, ivory, ebony (not grenadilla), snake wood, black silver, Au10, platinum, corian®, etc.. Ordinary wooden flutes are made of grenadilla (Dalbergia melanoxylon), but Sakurai Flute makes real ebony (Diospyros ebenum, and many other Diospyros ~) flutes. Ebony is used for recorder (Blockfloete) and I have a recorder in ebony made by other maker too, but I don't know other flute makers making ebony boehm flutes. Metal flutes are made in soldered tone holes only, including student models (actually real top grage hand made flute made by german silver.) Pricing is too low in my opinion. Production volume is very limited and I want them used by who really want them. | |
| Sankyo Flute | *Sankyo Flute. Started to make Kingma System flute since 2007 as well (though not publicly sold yet). | |
| Yamaha | *Famous for student models, but make really great flutes for professionals but very rare in stock even in Japanese musical instrument shop compared to other top brand professional flutes listed here. I love the wooden flute especially. | |
| Kotato Flute | *Famous of Double Contrabass Flute. Makes great concert flute too! The Bee Mode headjoint is unique, having vibrating film attached (you attach) inspired by Chinese flutes. Can hear sample from the site. BTW, the site is sometimes really heavy, and you have to close advertise first to see the menu. | |
| Flute Masters Co (FMC) | *Japanese text only. | |
| Nomata Flute SA | *Japanese text only. | |
| Mateki Flute | *Japanse text only. Superb mechanism. My Muramatsu AD felt like a toy touching Mateki flute. The former Mateki Flute company had been closed by the end of the year 2011. --> inherited by the new company Flute Kobo (atelier) Mateki from 6 Jan 2012. |
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| Pearl Flutes | *Japanese text only. Makes great flutes recently. | |
| Altus Flute | *English page under construction. Uses unique materials such as Britania Silver, Altus metal, etc.. | |
| Miyazawa Flute | *Miyazawa Flute. Launched Broeger system flute. (probably Brannen and Miyazawa only?) | |
| Akiyama Flute | *Makes Europian Old model, American Traditional model, and Silver Louis Lot model. | |
| Natsuki Flute | *Make silicone pads and original head cork replacement (vaccumed metal tube with o-rings). | |
| Iwao Flute | *Makes Alto and Bass flute as well as Concert flutes. Had made treble flute and OEM Alto flute for Rudall Carte. | |
| M.Yamada Flute & Piccolo/a> | *Makes really great wooden piccolo and flutes. | |
| Flute Atelier Aihara | *Aihara flute. Various material for lip plates. Marbled turbans, ivory, horn, etc. | |
| Straubinger Flutes | *Also famous for Straubinger Pad. | |
| John Lunn Flutes | *Unique Vanguard Designed (art-nouveau styled) flutes. | |
| Lopatin Flute Company | *Also makes"The SquareONE" which has square toneholes, as well as "The Classic". | |
| Eva Kingma | *Kingma System flutes. Makes Alto, Bass, and ContraBass flutes. She invented Kingma system, which enables to play full quarter-tone scale. Standard size concert C flute, in Kingma system is made by Brannen and Sankyo (but Sankyo KIngma not sold yet though). | |
| Landell Flutes | *Also makes titanium flutes. Uses ball-bearings for mechanism. | |
| Guo flute (Grenaditte Flute) | *Guo flutes. Made by granadilla like synthetic resin. Used to make silver flutes and full ceramic flutes. | |
| Salvatore Faulisi | Also famous as a headjoint maker. Michael Debost uses Faulisi Headjoint | |
| Arista Flutes | ||
| Emanuel Flutes | ||
| Stephen Wessel | Silver flute with stainless-steel light weight mechanism. | |
| Williams Flutes | ||
| Anton Braun | *Wooden flutes & Piccolo maker. Launched silver flute as well. Michael Hasel uses Braun. | |
| The Abell Flute Company | *Wooden flutes & whistles maker. Patric Gallois plays Abell Flute. | |
| Robert Bigio-Flutes | *Wooden flutes, piccolos & headjoints maker. Orders of flute presently not accepted. | |
| Tom GREEN Flutes | *Also makes Murray Mechanism Flute. | |
| Matit flute brothers | *Makes Carbon-fiber flutes. Magnet used instead of springs and ball bearings used as well. Relatively light and bamboo like feeling when played. | |
| Gemeinhardt | Student models popular in USA. American sound. | |
| Armstrong Flutes | *Amrstrong. Makes "Student Flutes" and "Step-Up Flutes." | |
| Dean Yang Flutes | ||
| Tom Lacy Flute | ||
| Howel Roberts | *Makes wooden flutes and wooden headjoints for silver flutes | |
| Folkers & Powell | *Baroque flute maker. Many copies of historical masterpieces. | |
| Michael Grinter Flutes | *Recorders & Baroque flutes maker. | |
| Simon Polaks | *Baroque flutes maker | |
| The Chris Wilkes Flute Page | *Makes Eight-key flutes | |
| Historical Woodwinds (J.Hermans) | *A maker of renaissance and baroque recorders and of baroque flutes (traversos). | |
| Mark Hoza's Kything Flutes | *Maker of wood headjoints for concert flutes, wooden Irish style keyless flutes, and quenas. |
Headjoint Makers
| J. R. Lafin | *Very famous headjoint maker. Extremely neutral. | |
| Ian McLauchlan | ||
| La flute traversiere (Faulisi Flute) | *Michael Debost plays Faulisi headjoint. Makes flute body as well. | |
| Drelinger Headjoint | *Unique shaped headjoints. | |
| Butterfly Headjoint Co. | Unique Butterfly headjoint. Made by Goosman. | |
| Atelier Yanagisawa | *Maintenance and Head Joint production. Makes crystal head piece stopper and blazing riser which has rib between lip plate and tube. Came back to Japan from Europe. | |
| Flute Atelier Aihara | *Various material for lip plates. Marbled turbans, ivory, horn, etc. Makes flute body as well. | |
| Eldred Spell Flutes | *Wooden headjoints for Piccolos. | |
| Howel Roberts | *Wooden headjoints for metal-body flute. | |
| Side Blown Technologies | *Bamboo headjoints for metal-body flute, and bamboo flutes. | |
| Mark Hoza's Kything Flutes | *Maker of wood headjoints for concert flutes, wooden Irish style keyless flutes, and quenas. |
Retailers
| Muramatsu flute (distributers) | ||
| Muramatsu-America | *Distributer of Muramatsu Flute in USA | |
| Muramatsu (Shinjuku shop) | *The world famous Muramatsu shop. Probably the best flute music and CD shop in the world. Located in Shinjuku Tokyo Japan. Also in Osaka, Nagoya, and Yokohama. | |
| Powell Flute Japan | *Located in Shinjuku Tokyo Japan. | |
| Yamano Music | *Japanese text only. One of the best flute shop in Japan. (Yamano Flute Salon). Located in Ginza Tokyo Japan. | |
| DAC | *Musical instruments shop located in ShinOkubo Tokyo Japan. Has really lots of flutes. I bought my Johannes Hammig here. | |
| Central-Gakki | *Wood wind instrument shop located in Yokohama Japan. (Higashi-hakuraku station or Higashi-Kanawaga station.) Has lots of flutes. Sells Sakurai Flutes. I bought Ph. Hammig piccolo for orchestra club in my university here. A salesman taught me that there werer three persons who were making Ph. Hammig in that era: the Black case, the Brown case, and the Light brown case. IMHO, the piccolos in light brown case are the best in balance, but I love the hard to play but very firm sound Black case. Maybe its all black case these days. (not about the color of the piccolo itself, but the "hard case". I have tried Helmuth Hammig here with my friend. | |
| Yamaha Ginza | *You migth be able to see very rare Yamaha Handmade flutes. | |
| Musical instruments dolce | *Located in Osaka and Shinjuku Japan. Sells Powell flutes as well. | |
| Floetenhaus Theobald | *Flute shop located in Mejiro Tokyo Japan. Has a lots of flutes including second hand and vintage flutes. Sells Sakurai flutes as well. | |
| Flute Park Tani-tech | *Flute shop located in Mejiro Tokyo Japan. Only sells Japanese flutes by shopmaster's policy. (Foreign flutes are too expensive in Japan. It is way much reasonable that you fly to USA or Germany to buy flutes than you buy them in Japan.) My friend bought his Pearl flute (White gold plated) here. | |
| Flute World | ||
| Just Flutes | ||
| Cavallaro Case Covers |
Flutist's Page etc.
| Larry Krantz Flute Home page | *Lots of sources. | |
| The Woodwind Figering Guide | *Fingering charts for many woodwind instruments. Has many special fingerings. | |
| The Dayton C. Miller Collection | *Famous Flute Collection. Many Photos. | |
| Belgian Flute Pages | ||
| Flutes.tk | *Many links | |
| The Marcel Moyse Society | ||
| Ayako Takagi (Columbia Music Entertainment) | *Information of flutist Ayako Takagi by Columbia Music Entertainment. She plays Helmuth Hammig. | |
| flute.com | ||
| Windworld |
Publishers
| Also | *Publisher of Japanese flute magazine "the Flute" |
Performing groups
| THE FLUTE QUARTET | *Flute quartet by professional flutists in orchestras. It was shocking for me to hear them. You can make music like this by just four flutes when you play in orchestral manner! This is the ensemble. I can even recommend their CDs to whom they not listen to the flutes. |
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| Flute ensemble Spark | *Great amateur flute ensemble by five men. |
non-European Flutes
| Musashino Gakki | *Japanese traditional instrument shop located in Hachioji Tokyo Japan. | |
| Mejiro | *Shakuhachi and Shinobue shop located in Mejiro Tokyo Japan. | |
| Tai Hei Shakuhachi | ・ | |
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