Review: Well-Tempered Woodwinds: Friedrich von Huene and the Making of Early Music in a New World, by Geoffrey Burgess

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Book Review| April 01 2016 Review: Well-Tempered Woodwinds: Friedrich von Huene and the Making of Early Music in a New World, by Geoffrey Burgess Well-Tempered Woodwinds: Friedrich von Huene and the Making of Early Music in a New World, by Geoffrey Burgess. Publications of the Early Music Institute. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2015. xxviii, 290 pp. Kailan R. Rubinoff Kailan R. Rubinoff KAILAN R. RUBINOFF is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Recent writings have appeared in Twentieth-Century Music, Music and Politics, Early Music, and the edited volume Music and Protest in 1968 (Cambridge University Press, 2013). She is currently writing a book on the early music movement in the Netherlands. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2016) 69 (1): 247–253. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2016.69.1.247 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kailan R. Rubinoff; Review: Well-Tempered Woodwinds: Friedrich von Huene and the Making of Early Music in a New World, by Geoffrey Burgess. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 April 2016; 69 (1): 247–253. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2016.69.1.247 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search Geoffrey Burgess's biography of the German-American recorder builder, performer, and early music patron Friedrich von Huene is a niche book: it is not intended for musicologists in general but rather for recorder players and other early music practitioners in particular (as its inclusion in Indiana's Publications of the Early Music Institute series and book jacket endorsements make clear). Von Huene (b. 1928) is well known to early music aficionados, having played a central role in fostering “historically informed performance” (aka HIP)1 in the Boston area as a maker and restorer of historical woodwinds and as a founder of the Boston Early Music Festival. Since the 1960s historical performers (myself included) have flocked to von Huene's Early Music Shop of New England, the primary North American source for the purchase of instruments, facsimile editions, treatises, and other HIP “tools of the trade.” Though mainly focused on von Huene and the... You do not currently have access to this content.