All Recorders & Accessories

Browse our large range of recorders and recorder accessories, we are sure to have what you are looking for. You will find everything you need here, including: A wide range of recorder sizes - A selection of the best recorder makers - Recorder maintenance supplies - Recorder accessories (including cases, straps, stands and thumbrests) - Recorder fashion accessories - And much, much more!

Recorder Sizes

We have a huge range of recorders, ensuring everyone is well catered for. Our range covers:

Garklein and Sopranino recorders – Descant or Soprano recorders – Treble or Alto Recorders – Tenor, Knick-tenor and Comfort-tenor recorders – Bass recorders including basset, greatbass, contrabass, subgreatbass and even massive subcontrabass recorders.

Types of Materials

Recorders are made using a variety of wood types, each with a unique effect on the tonal qualities of the instrument. The Orpheus Music range includes:

Pearwood – Maple – Plum – Palisander – Rosewood – Olivewood – Grenadilla – Satinwood – Cherrywood

Resin, plastic and hybrid recorders are also available.

Recorder Makers

We stock recorders for any budget. Browse a selection of carefully chosen recorder makers, ensuring everyone from the beginner to the professional is well catered for. Recorder makers that we stock include:

AULOS – Küng – Mollenhauer – Music Garden – Takeyama – YAMAHA – ZEN-ON

Baroque recorders & other tunings:

Modern recorders are most commonly pitched at concert pitch (A=440 Hz), like modern pianos and orchestral instruments.

However, among serious amateurs and professionals, other pitch standards are commonly found. For the performance of baroque music, A=415Hz is the de facto standard while pre-Baroque music is often performed at A=440Hz or A=466Hz. These pitch standards are intended to reflect the broad variation in pitch standards throughout the history of the recorder. In various regions, contexts, and time periods, pitch standards have varied from A=~392Hz to A=~520Hz. The pitches A=415Hz and A=466Hz, a semitone lower and a semitone higher than A=440Hz respectively, were chosen because they may be used with harpsichords or chamber organs which transpose up or down a semitone from A=440. These pitch standards allow recorder players to collaborate with other instrumentalists at a pitch other than A=440 Hz.