Craig Allen wrote: > Greetings all, especially those in the wild north of Minnesota. An > acquaintance is travelling to Minneapolis and would like to browse the Early > Music stores there. She is in particular need of recorders and recorder > music. He locale has a dearth of any such shops. Thank you in advance. >
Not a lot here, but for recorders check out Jean Allison Olsen. She has quite an extensive collection of music and instruments available for perusal in person (my wife plays ensemble music with her and is a happy customer, too). See http://www.honeysucklemusic.com/ There is the Podium in Dinkytown; see http://www.thepodium.com/ (which used to be owned by local lutenist Paul Berget). They *may* have some early stuff, but it is not guaranteed. I have seen a lute or 2-over the years. Other than that, I think we are yet another backwater of Early Musicke (on the odd occasion, http://www.homesteadpickinparlor.com/ may also have a lute in stock). Also, you *may* be able to find some rare plucked instruments at Claire Givens (this is according to Dan Larson). See http://www.givensviolins.com/ If you go to Duluth, there is of course Daniel Larson's shop... BTW, Minneapolis is in the east central part of the state; unless you are talking to Ed Martin (even though Duluth is not that far North from here; and definitely, Duluth is not in that wild a region -- you would have to go about 2 hours North of there, and even then, the wild part of the state is slowly becoming too developed). Good Luck! Greg-- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
