This listing has appeared on C&F for, oh I don’t know, 9 years!
Silberton whistles by Foky Gruber, D,C,Bb. “Silvered Brass.” Tunable. I received e-mail from Marcus Hans Metz, from Germany, I gather, telling us of the Folkie Gruber whistle. “Hungarian flute maker Folkie Gruber,” writes Marcus, "makes a superb tin whistle (ca. US$ 180). Please add his new homepage (under construction…but finished soon!) which is athttp://> www.uni-mainz.de/~metzm000/gruber.html> . It’s available, allegedly, from Musik in Bewegung Nackenheimer Strasse 21 65428 Ruesselsheim Germany. Swing by there next time you’re in Ruesselsheim and grab one up!!
UPDATE: I haven’t heard anything about these in two or three years. I’m not sure they are still being made. I just can’t bring myself to delete the name “Foky Gruber” from this site.
In the early 1970’s, Gyula Foky-Gruber in Vienna developed the “Silberton”, an all-metal soprano recorder made entirely of nickel-plated brass, and an alto made of rosewood with a metal head-joint and two keys for the lowermost finger hole. Both featured a sytem of adjustable voicing achieved by altering the position of the block and the height of the windway. Both were of cylindrical bore. Later the German firm Hopf produced “Silberton” instruments which they now offer as “Gruber System” recorders by Kobliczek in sopranino, soprano, and alto models. Today, Gruber is making them again by himself as signed handmade recorders in small series, also in pure silver.
–Nicholas S. Lander, in Instrument of Torture or Instrument of Music?
Hey, this is a family board. I’m just glad you removed the FSM from your avatar before you resorted to such gutter-mouthed language. Hopefully you will be Touched by His Noodly Appendage again before too long.
Here is a filthy recorder magazinewith a feature on Guyla Foky-Gruber, in German (which is why I dare post it on a kid-friendly board). It’s a .pdf download.
It does contain the following sensational find: A picture of Guyla Foky-Gruber (*1927) himself:
