I would like to buy my wife a nice recorder, but I don’t know enough about them. I have seen recommendations for the Mollenhauer Adri’s Dream. Does anyone play recorder and have suggestions?
Also, has anyone played Jubilee’s chromatic low whistle? Very curious about it.
More info here would be very helpful.. I am an avid recorder player, and would be willing to help you in any way I can.
Does your wife already play recorder?
What type of music does she hope to play on it?
How much do you want to spend?
The more you can tell us, the better.
Far as I know, the Adri’s Dream only comes in a soprano-- it looks pretty interesting, but I have not tried one ( but would ike to).
Feel free to e-mail me off the board, if that is easier.
Or just talk about it here. 
I like reading about recorder.
Keep this on list please.
Steven
Thanks for the kind offers!
OK: My wife in brief (not in briefs!):
She already plays recorder and is pretty good. She plays Baroque (double holes) and does many styles, from hymn arrangements to folk to classical. She owns a Yamaha and is looking for something with better intonation and richer sound. She also has a degree in music, a drop-dead beautiful mezzo voice, and is a genius.
I would spend around a hundred bux.
Hi Morgan
Have a look at “The Recorder Homepage” for starters
http://classicalmus.hispeed.com/nickl/recorder.html
There are other good sites, but this is the most informative(IMO).
Thomas Hastay.
Thomas–
That link is dead. 
Morgan
I just checked it. It works fine for me(?) Use
http://www.google.com/
and search for “The Recorder Homepage”. Maybe your server can’t establish a link(?)
OK. Got it. By doing the search I also found out that Michala Petri has a page. I heard her on the radio once and simply could not believe that she was playing a recorder.
Franz Bruggen is also worth a listen or two.
A friend of mine, Jarod New, has a plastic Zen-On Bressan copy which actually plays very well, and is a good inexpensive way to get a good recorder to learn on.
In wood, if you can still find them, Adege made some extremely nice exotic hardwood recorders. The ones I have were voiced by Phillip Levin before being sold, and are lovely instruments, historical copies of Terton orginals in blackwood and rosewood. At the time I bought them they weren’t super-expensive.
–James
This seems like a good place to ask this…
Are the last holes on wooden recorders easier to feel than the plastic ones?
I’ve played a Gill and another plastic one that I can’t remember what it was, and the bottom holes feel like one hole to me (I have pinky problems), so I can’t play it right. If somebody makes a recorder where the bottom two holes are more ‘pronounced’, I’d appreciate knowing about it.
The larger recorders that have keys - do they transpose?
(Sorry to piggy-back a post.)
That $100 price range limits you a bit. You MIGHT find a good used wooden recorder from Von Huene, etc. One very interesting option is a revoiced plastic from Collins woodwinds:
http://leecollins.com/custom.htm
They take a good quality plastic recorder ( Soprano or Alto), then resurface the plug with cedar like in a good wooden instrument, revoice the recorder and tweak the tuning, etc. These play VERY well indeed.
If you don’t like the plastic sheen and feel, you can gently rub down the surface with 0000 steel wool in a twisting motion. This gives an instrument which looks and feels remarkably like an ebony recorder. This is probably your very best bet for $100.
Also in Alto, but you made me wonder and I checked Mollenhauer’s page to see if it could be discontinued. Apparently the Adri line is the big hit for Mollenhauer. Now they even offer (well, at a price…) an Alto in African blackwood (don’t be misled by its German name “ebenholz”) and even a Tenor. It’s absolutely superb! Hey, who was looking for a low D-minor? 
Btw, Susato’s online store carried the alto and soprani last time I checked, and here’s one soprano on eBay :
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2539232133&category=16230
The seller seems to do quite abusiness with new recorders. He recently had an Adri’s alto, and now a
“modern” keyed alto (Mollenhauer/Pätzold)
Again, thanks for the assistance.
I think I will look into the Traumflote (Mollenhauer) some more and let all the fine Chiffmates know what I find.
Another good source is the Boulder Early Music Shop www.bems.com I bought a Moeck Flauto Leggero (or something like that) there a few years back. This is a Sycamore soprano, right about the price range you mentioned. I like it a lot, but play it only rarely.
The model I bought, but the BEMS web page lists what the current equivalent model from Moeck is.
You also might want check out the clearance corner at Antique Sound Workshop (http://www.aswltd.com/carlton.htm) - they offer reduced prices on discontinued models and occasionally carry used instruments on consignment.
Good luck and please, let us know what you end up doing.
Tom
She has a great double CD of recorder music as well!
I found a page with some mp3s of the Mollenhauer Dream Soprano:
http://uk.geocities.com/GeoffW27/Thousand.html
This fellow also puts some recordings up on Clips and Snips or whatever its called now. Oddly, he has the same name as a friend of mine who also plays the recorder. And the flute. And the whistle, guitar (classical, jazz, acoustic, electric, etc.), mandolin, African thumb piano, and Heaven only knows what else. The tragedy of it all is that he is wasting his life as a LAWYER!
I ordered the Adri’s Dream from Mollenhauer. I was going to get the double-holed model, but Mr. Kelischek (founder of Susato) threatened me with unspecified harm if I did not get single holes. His words (begin German accent):
“Eef I could I would make it illegal to make dubble holz! Zay do it to make you sink you get more for za money, but I hef been playink recorder for feefty yeerz and never I need za double holz! Zoze peeple should be hanged!” (End German accent)
Here is another link that may be useful
http://members.iinet.net.au/~nickl/recorder.html
He uses a Zen-on and tweaks them similar to an earlier post. He also has quite a range of instruments for sale in all price ranges, most of them more than I can pay.
Steven who is waffling between recorder and whistle for wife and himself HELP!!!