Moeck Musikinstrumente + Verlag

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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){{Cite book

| author = Richard Griscom

| author2 = David Lasocki

| title = The Recorder: A Research and Information Guide

| year = 2012

| edition = Third

| publisher = Routledge

| location = New York

}} in Celle. 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 Markneukirchen, and began manufacturing their own instruments in 1949.{{Cite journal

| first = Bill

| last = Pratt

| date = February 1973

| publisher = American Recorder Society

| title = Dr. Hermann Moeck Talks About His Firm

| journal = The American Recorder

| volume = 14

| issue = 1

| pages = 3–8

}} Beginning in 1966, during the revival of early music,{{Cite book|title=Music Making in the West Riding of Yorkshire|last=Smith|first=Adrian|publisher=R.H. Wood Publishing|year=2000|isbn=9780953988501|pages=122}} they worked with Friedrich von Huene to develop their Rottenburgh model line. Moeck formerly manufactured historical instruments such as crumhorn, rauschpfeifes, shawms, cornetts, and dulcians designed by Otto Steinkopf, but the Renaissance and Baroque Woodwind Instruments division was closed in December 2008.[https://archive.today/20120904085513/http://www.moeck.com/cms/index.php?id=5&L=1 Historical Woodwind Instruments page]

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 largest music store worldwide specialising in renaissance instruments,{{Cite journal|date=November 2007|title=Crumhorns, sackbuts and lutes for sale... in Saltaire|journal=BD18online - Local News and Views}}{{Cite journal|date=October 2007|title=The Early Music Shop: 'The Largest source of early musical instruments worldwide'|journal=Gigmag.co.uk}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.entsweb.co.uk/profile/1121537/early-music-shop/index.html|title=Early Music Shop based in West Yorkshire {{!}} EntsWeb|website=www.entsweb.co.uk|access-date=2018-10-14}}