Beaudin Flute Workshop

Jean-François Beaudin in his workshop

Maker of Fine Instruments

Technical Drawings (Plans) of 18th-Century Flutes

Beaudin Flute

My modern traverso uses an innovative design that preserves the spirit, tonal characteristics and fingerings of 18th-century flutes while offering more power.

Beaudin flute

The Beaudin Flute is ideal for playing any Early Music repertoire and some more recent music in a 21st-century context.

Beaudin Flute

Beaudin Piccolo

My piccolo uses the same design features and principles as my modern traverso.

Beaudin Piccolo

Quantz Flute

My Quantz flute is based mainly on a flute by Quantz now in the Berlin Museum (No. XVIII). It is the most recent of the surviving Quantz flutes.

Quantz flute by Jean-François Beuadin

I have studied and made technical drawings of several other surviving instruments. An analysis and comparison of these instruments has led me to a deeper understanding of Quantz’s ideas on flute making.

Quantz Flute

Technical Drawings (Plans)

I started working on my handmade technical drawings (plans) in 1979. They are the result of incalculable hours of work in museums and private collections.

Technical Drawings