Lower Saxony, Germany
Moeck 

Maple, brass
ca. 1960’s
Length: 51 in, Top diameter: 3 in, Bell diameter: 4.25 in
Wind Instruments – Woodwind Instruments – Flutes – Recorders

Engraved on top section: “Moeck”    

The Moeck Renaissance Consort Recorder Collection is based on instruments in the Hofburgmuseum, Vienna. This famous collection contains a significant number of very well-preserved Renaissance recorders.  This Renaissance fingering Consort Great Bass has a range of an octave and a sixth and is in the key of C.  It is made from maple and features two (old style) keys, a bocal and fontanelle with a butterfly key. 

In the 1930’s, the Moeck company was started in Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany, by Hermann Moeck, Sr. His focus was on the production of recorders. As a result of increasing interest during the 20th century, in historical performance on reconstructed wind instruments from the Baroque and Renaissance eras (initiated by Otto Steinkopf), they began to research historical wind instruments including crumhorns, cornamuses, (Kortholte), shawns and pommers, dulcians, racketts, historical cornets, Renaissance and Baroque flutes, oboes, bassoons and early clarinets. By the 1960’s, the production of high-quality copies of selected museum instruments began. Nevertheless, few were made based upon demand. The development of the simple recorder and the Consort of recorders to a more sophisticated instrument was and continues to be their focus today.