What are the technical measures of a tenor recorder?
A friend wants to make a tenor recorder from scratch (he is already a gaita maker), and asked me for the technical measures to do it, I searched through the web but couldn't found any complete reference on how to do it, its measures, etc.
So, what are the measures (in inches, cm, mm, whatsoever) of a tenor recorder?
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It seems there is a large recorder making community, with a vast and very useful set of resources here.
There are some links to technical plans, however a lot of them are for alto recorder rather than tenor, and even more still are stored on microfiche in libraries and not accessible online. Having said that:
This PDF has a graph detailing bore diameters of various tenor recorders on p8
Another link to 3 PDF and CAD files, two with plans for soprano and one for alto recorder
A very informative website (in French and English) by a recorder maker, with a discussions on bore size and photographs of making recorders lower down on the home page under 'documents'.
This is a picture of an alto recorder on top of a copy of plans by Thomas Stanesby, a maker of recorders in the 18th century, which might be useful (credit buyrecorders.com)
Another copy of Alto plans, this time a French design from c. 1700 (credit J.-F. Beaudin, I found it on the first link, recorderhomepage.net)
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