Werner John, our recorder specialist is a versatile professional player of wood flutes. Since age 11 when the first pearwood soprano recorder was handed to him these simple wooden instruments have captivated his imagination.
Werner's subsequent lifetime of experience has included performing, teaching, and recording as well as instrument making. By 1990 he had produced two nationally acclaimed recorder albums, Early Light and Christmas Past. Soon afterward he discovered the recorder's North American cousin, the Native American style flute and began designing and producing his own line of flutes incorporating some of the more refined characteristics of recorders.
Decades later Werner considers himself to have been schooled in voicing these instruments by the greatest teacher of all: nature and her timeless laws of wind and breath. This highly sensitized player enjoys finding a way to optimize the qualities of resonance, tone and ease of playing in a simple wood tube.
Werner will treat your instrument with loving care in his central Vermont shop and return it to you playing like new (sometimes better than new). His dedication to the craft translates to more pleasure and ease every time you pick up your recorder to make music.
Werner's subsequent lifetime of experience has included performing, teaching, and recording as well as instrument making. By 1990 he had produced two nationally acclaimed recorder albums, Early Light and Christmas Past. Soon afterward he discovered the recorder's North American cousin, the Native American style flute and began designing and producing his own line of flutes incorporating some of the more refined characteristics of recorders.
Decades later Werner considers himself to have been schooled in voicing these instruments by the greatest teacher of all: nature and her timeless laws of wind and breath. This highly sensitized player enjoys finding a way to optimize the qualities of resonance, tone and ease of playing in a simple wood tube.
Werner will treat your instrument with loving care in his central Vermont shop and return it to you playing like new (sometimes better than new). His dedication to the craft translates to more pleasure and ease every time you pick up your recorder to make music.