These premium-quality Swiss-made instruments, available in the United States only from our workshop, are superior in quality of wood, workmanship, appearance, and performance to most other recorders currently available. The Model II pearwood recorders are excellent general-purpose modern instruments with a full, robust, dark, and complex tone quality that is ideally suited to ensemble playing. The Model III hardwood instruments have a light, clear, well-focused tone that lends itself equally well to solo and ensemble use. The Model IV baroque recorders are authentic overtone-rich baroque designs, but are not copies of any one particular maker. All Huber recorders feature extremely easy and accurate response in both high and low registers.
Outstanding pearwood student instruments, with simple profile. The Model I soprano recorders have been discontinued, but the 6-tone kindergarten flute is still available. We do not stock this item, but are happy to obtain it on special order for educational customers
| Instrument | Features | Wood Choices | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten six-note flute in g'' | one piece, cloth bag | pearwood | 67.00 |
Modern instruments made from fine quality European pearwood, with a simple baroque profile. These recently redesigned instruments have a large, meaty, dark, and rich tone quality, with excellent high register response and an unusually full middle and low register. They are superb ensemble instruments which blend well with other recorders, yet make themselves heard in a complex texture.A few years ago, the Model II altos and tenors were made for a brief period of time with curved, more highly conical windways, which produced a richer and more complex sound. These two models are once again being made only with straight windways, but the greater conicity of the curved windway models has been incorporated into their design. The pearwood curved windway models are now available as Model III instruments and at a somewhat higher price.
| Instrument | Features | Wood Choices | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sopranino in f'' | two piece, canvas bag | pearwood | NLA |
| Soprano in c'' | two piece, canvas bag | pearwood | 150.00 |
| American cherrywood | 226.00 | ||
| plumwood | 256.00 | ||
| Alto in f' | three piece, canvas bag | pearwood | 429.00 |
| Tenor in c' | keyless, canvas bag | pearwood †haldu |
674.00 |
†We have just a few Model II tenor recorders available in haldu, an Indian yellow-brown wood similar to boxwood. These are a one-time limited edition series and are available for the same price as the Model II pearwood tenor.
Modern instruments made from a variety of tropical hardwoods, with elaborate baroque profile. These instruments have a bright, clear, well-focused tone and extremely fast and clean response that renders them well-suited to solo playing, although they are also suitable for ensemble use. The keyless tenor recorders are easily the most ergonomic tenor instruments available by any maker. The outstanding bass recorders, the finest made by any maker, are once again available after having been out of production for several years. Thanks to an innovative design with long head- and footjoints and a shorter middle joint, they fit into unusually short and compact hard cases and are extremely easy to store and transport. The keywork has also been completely redesigned.
| Instrument | Features | Wood Choices | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sopranino in f'' | two piece, canvas bag | pearwood | 351.00 |
| bubinga | 430.00 | ||
| palisander | 483.00 | ||
| olivewood | 510.00 | ||
| grenadilla | 510.00 | ||
| violetwood | 510.00 | ||
| European boxwood | 655.00 | ||
| Soprano in c'' | three piece, canvas bag | American cherrywood | 391.00 |
| plumwood | 391.00 | ||
| bubinga | 444.00 | ||
| palisander | 510.00 | ||
| olivewood | 563.00 | ||
| violetwood | 563.00 | ||
| grenadilla | 629.00 | ||
| European boxwood | 788.00 | ||
| Alto in f' | three piece, canvas bag | pearwood | 589.00 |
| American cherrywood | 722.00 | ||
| plumwood | 788.00 | ||
| bubinga | 881.00 | ||
| palisander | 1,053.00 | ||
| olivewood | 1,185.00 | ||
| violetwood | 1,185.00 | ||
| grenadilla | 1,212.00 | ||
| European boxwood | 1,648.00 | ||
| Tenor in c' | three piece, keyless | pearwood | 788.00 |
| American cherrywood | 947.00 | ||
| bubinga | 1,317.00 | ||
| palisander | 1,450.00 | ||
| olivewood | 1,979.00 | Bass in f | direct blow, f-f# key, with fitted compact hard case |
pearwood | 2,218.00 |
| American cherrywood | 2,491.00 | ||
| bubinga | 3,105.00 | ||
| Knickbass in f | direct blow, f-f# key, with fitted compact hard case |
pearwood | 2,436.00 |
| American cherrywood | 2,696.00 | ||
| bubinga | 3,241.00 |
These are superb baroque instruments with narrow curved windways and heavily undercut tone holes, having a rich, reedy, intensive tone quality and excellent pitch stability. They are ideally suited to the authentic performance of late baroque solo and mixed ensemble literature.
| Instrument | Features | Wood Choices | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alto in f' | a'=440 Hz., canvas bag | grenadilla | inquire |
| European boxwood | inquire | ||
| Alto in f' | a'=415 Hz., canvas bag | plumwood | inquire |
These are unique instruments with a fascinating history. A few years ago, the Huber workshop obtained a small quantity of wood from a recently-discovered and well-preserved 4,500-year-old swamp oak tree. Since this tree grew during the period during which the Egyptian pyramids were built by the pharaohs, Huber decided to make a limited series of soprano and alto recorders from this extremely rare hardwood, with exterior designs based on those of Egyptian flutes depicted in iconographical sources and hand-carved hieroglyphics on the headjoint. Each instrument was housed in a wooden case and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. In addition, for those who wanted a piece of ancient history at a much lower price, a larger number of instruments with the same ancient profile but without the hand-carved hieroglyphics were made from modern plumwood. These instruments were later discontinued and unavailable for almost a decade, but Huber has once again decided to make them on special order in limited quantities and in a choice of three woods.
| Instrument | Features | Wood Choices | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egyptian soprano recorder in c'' | special wooden presentation box certificate of authenticity very limited availability |
4,500 year-old oak | 3,685.00 |
| Egyptian alto recorder in f' | special wooden presentation box certificate of authenticity very limited availability |
4,500 year-old oak | 4,913.00 |
| Egyptian soprano recorder in c'' | cloth case | plumwood | 444.00 |
| olivewood | 580.00 | ||
| violetwood | 580.00 | ||
| Egyptian alto recorder in f' | cloth case | plumwood | 812.00 |
| olivewood | 1,222.00 | ||
| violetwood | 1,222.00 |
