Paul van der Linden

My interest in the building of instruments started during my starting years of baroque oboe (1981). Frederick Morgan, Bruce Haynes and others have taught several courses at the conservatorium in those years. The Conservatorium has opened its own workplace in cooperation with Ricardo Kanji and Peter van der Poel amongst others, in first instance for repairing instruments. This has grown out to a complete workplace which has helped several builders of instruments to start there own workplace. Some of my colleagues were Jacqueline Sorel, Marten Root and Peter van der Poel. After a year my interest grew so much that I independently set up my own space with all the needed equipment and machines.

The first ten years the activities were mostly aimed at the building of recorders. Since 1990 the interest has increasingly shifted to baroque oboe, because I wanted to make what I played most in concerts. Because of that I have build solely baroque oboes for several years.