Picked up some 70's / 80's Moeck Rottenburgh recorders
Hello Recorder People! I'm learning the flute and this set of recorders came up for sale at a price I was happy enough with, so picked them up as all woodwind is best woodwind, right??
Curious if there's any gotchas or anything to old recorders? Also curious what the wood is? I've already had to replace a cork with some string and it seems to do the job, but i'd like to replace it with some proper cork in the future.
I've applied some of the boiled linseed oil diluted back down a bit as it was a tad thick to the very dry areas, avoiding the block, and that seems to have helped it out a bit.
The brushes had a fair bit of corrosion on some, so I washed them in bio detergent, spun the dry to to retain the shape, soaked them in IPA to get most the rust out, then did a soak in a dilute phosphoric acid to get rid of the remaining rust, and they look brand new again.
The bigger green cases had some crusty dirt on the flocking, so I cleaned that out with the laundry detergent diluted and a toothbrush, then air dried and it's now looking better than the one that looked clean...
I'm impressed the owner kept the old oil and condensation? stuff along with the cork grease all these years.
I'm estimating them to be from pre 1983 as it came with a pack of rizla papers dated to 1983. Although the AI's tell me these are from the 70's...
Also got some old book which i'll be using, this isn't my main instrument as I have a Sankyo CF201 as my main flute, but I want to try my hand at a bit of recorder'ing in the future to expand the range, and fun!