Moeck, "Rottenburgh", tenor in c', baroque double hole, amaranth

The recorder with the item number 4409-MOE from Moeck is a musical instrument that brings endless joy to playing, day in, day out.
This is due to the unique combination of its ingenious design, finely tuned to the qualities of the material used: amaranth.

In this instrument, the material impresses with its characteristic qualities. These can best be described as follows: Amaranth: a powerful, resonant sound in the higher registers.

The scale

The instrument’s bore is slightly cylindroconical. This type of bore profile gives the instrument its characteristic sound.
In general, recorders with a wider bore sound warmer, fuller and more fundamental in tone, and are therefore better suited to ensemble playing than instruments with a narrower bore.

What kind of music is the instrument best suited to?

Amaranth is ideally suited to instruments used in ensembles, choral playing and as solo instruments.

Who is this recorder aimed at?

It follows from the above that boxwood instruments are particularly suitable for ambitious amateur and advanced players. A useful rule of thumb is that a higher-quality instrument naturally enriches ensemble playing more than a seemingly low-cost alternative.

The windway of the recorder

The windway is the area within the instrument’s headjoint where the player’s breath is shaped into an air column. This air column is the defining element of a recorder’s sound.In interaction with the labium, the air sheet thus produces the vibration that fundamentally generates the recorder’s tone. The shape of the windway is therefore extremely important for the recorder’s artistic performance capabilities.

The windway of the Moeck 4409-MOE instrument is constructed as follows: curved, conical.
Conical windways accelerate the airflow more than cylindrical ones.
Windways are extremely complex in their geometric design, and many parameters influence one another.

fingering

The Moeck 4409-MOE recorder is supplied with the following fingering: Baroque double-hole.

Body construction

The number of individual parts in a recorder influences in many ways the way in which the woodwind instrument can, on the one hand, ensure practical handling in terms of easy assembly and, on the other, facilitate compact transport.
This is a factor that should not be underestimated, particularly when transporting larger (and in some cases multiple) instruments.
Experienced ensemble players know this all too well.

Packaging and accessories

The recorder is supplied as standard with a hard case and a range of useful accessories: a cleaning rod, a drying cloth, cork grease, care instructions and a fingering chart

Hygiene tips

If the recorder is shared, we recommend that you regularly sterilise the headjoint to prevent the spread of illness. Flautisept has proven effective for this purpose. You can find Flautisept in our collection. It works on the following surfaces:

1. Varnished surfaces
2. Linseed oil-finished surfaces
3. Alcohol-stained surfaces
4. ABS plastics
5. Glazed surfaces
6. Waxed surfaces
7. Untreated wooden surfaces
8. RESONA

However, please test the product on an inconspicuous area before use to ensure it does not cause any adverse effects on your instrument.

Additional information on keys

Tone holes cannot always be positioned in places on the body that are easy and comfortable to reach with the fingers. Particularly with larger instruments, acoustic requirements mean that some tone holes are ergonomically out of reach. On such instruments, the instrument maker fits keys to make playing easier, or indeed to make it possible in the first place.
The 4409-MOE model features the following keys: . This makes it comfortable to play even for players with smaller hands.

Advice on choosing a new recorder

How to easily find your future instrument
Do your research thoroughly!
However, you shouldn’t let ‘universally accepted’ rules – such as ‘material XY is completely unsuitable for ensemble playing or for professionals’ – stop you from trying out a recorder for yourself. Your musical sensibility is as unique as you are. Therefore, only you can decide which instrument truly resonates with you.
Our recommendation is therefore: try out different instruments that you’ve never played before. You can only gain from the experience.