THE STANDARD BAROQUE FLUTE
OF THE 20th CENTURY
The Rottenburgh family was one of the most important makers of European wind instruments in the 18th century; among its leading representatives were, Joannes Hyacinthus, the father and Godfridus Adrianus, the son, both of whom worked in Flanders. It is an instrument in boxwood, in four sections, the diapason of which is 415 hz. It was my first Baroque flute purchase, the one with which I faced my first important performances, but from which I have gradually moved away in search of different timbres. It can be heard in the Largo and in the Presto from the Concerto n. 2 op. X “La Notte” by A. Vivaldi.