Moeck Musikinstrumente + Verlag is a leading German manufacturer of recorders and a music publisher. The company was founded in 1925 by ''Hermann Moeck'' (1896-1982) in

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. In 1960 his son Hermann Alexander Moeck (1922-2010) took over the business. The current owner is ''Sabine Haase-Moeck''. The company produces recorders for beginners and handmade instruments for soloists. They began as a publisher in 1929/30 as part of the youth movement in Germany, later adding recorders manufactured by

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, and began manufacturing their own instruments in 1949. Beginning in 1966, during the revival of early music, they worked with

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to develop their Rottenburgh model line. Moeck formerly manufactured historical instruments such as

crumhorn The crumhorn is a double reed , double reed instrument of the woodwind family, most commonly used during the Renaissance music, Renaissance period. In modern times, particularly since the 1960s, there has been a revival of interest in early mu ...

rauschpfeife A rauschpfeife ( pl. rauschpfeifes or rauschpfeifen; German: Rauschpfeife, pl. Rauschpfeifen) is a capped conical reed musical instrument of the woodwind family, used in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. In common with the crumhorn and c ...

shawm The shawm () is a Bore (wind instruments)#Conical bore, conical bore, double-reed woodwind instrument made in Europe from the 13th or possibly 12th century to the present day. It achieved its peak of popularity during the medieval and Renaissanc ...

cornett The cornett (, ) is a lip-reed wind instrument that dates from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, popular from 1500 to 1650. Although smaller and larger sizes were made in both straight and curved forms, surviving cornetts are most ...

s, and

dulcian The dulcian is a Renaissance woodwind instrument, with a double reed and a folded conical bore. Equivalent terms include , , , , , , and . The predecessor of the modern bassoon, it flourished between 1550 and 1700, but was probably invented ...

s designed by Otto Steinkopf, but the Renaissance and Baroque Woodwind Instruments division was closed in December 2008.Historical Woodwind Instruments page
/ref> The publishing division specialized in recorder music, and publishes ''Tibia'', a woodwind periodical. For the past 40 years, Moeck has had a commercial relationship with

The Early Music Shop The Early Music Shop is an early music store specialising in the sale and distribution of reproduction Renaissance and Medieval music, medieval musical instruments, with two showrooms situated in Saltaire and Snape Maltings, United Kingdom. It wa ...

, the largest music store worldwide specialising in renaissance instruments, which serves as one of its official exclusive UK distributors and agents. Moeck is now one of the most recognised recorder makes in the world.

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