Updated 26 February
2025
This is the website of Mark W Venn and is concerned principally with early
music in various manifestations. Current sections of the site deal with:
Handmade renaissance woodwind instruments. Principal
instruments
made are the crumhorn and the cornamuse.
Handmade stands for recorders, crumhorns
and other instruments
Maintenance and minor repair work of instruments.
The "Mozart"™ music software
for developing high quality music scores,
"The Waites of Gloucester", a renaissance
consort, that also performs as
"Her Majestie's Pleasure"
Topics can be selected from the menu on the left hand side of the screen.
An SATB crumhorn
consort provided for a customer in
early 2025
(click on image for a larger version)
Crumhorn display stand
Do your crumhorns need a display stand, or just some means of
keeping them
ready for use? Check this out.
Greenwich International
Early Music Festival
Mark Venn has been a regular exhibitor of renaissance instruments
and the
Mozart software at the annual Greenwich International Festival and Exhibition of
Early Music in Greenwich. Mark has not exhibited for several years, but
instruments and music software are still available by contacting him directly.
The Mozart author, Dave Webber, discussing the latest features with a fellow
exhibitor at the Greenwich International early Music Festival..
A small selection of the stands at the Exhibition.
Crumhorns, cornamusen and recorder stands by Mark.
If you would like more details or have any comments on this site,
please
email
me.