The publications on wood, materials science, music history, stylistics and work theory fill several metres of shelf space.
Every page contains existing knowledge that needs to be understood, linked together and combined to form new ideas.
The Oscar Walcker School in Ludwigsburg can certainly call itself the world's elite school of musical instrument making.
The excursions of the trainees, some of which take place all over the world, are legendary.
The curriculum covers subjects and areas of knowledge that cannot be taught, or can only be taught with difficulty, in specialised workshops.
During the block courses, which last several weeks, the young instrument makers come into close contact with other instrument making disciplines.
This allows them to exchange ideas, learn from each other and overcome their own operational blindness.
Every year, the best trainees are awarded the Education Oscar by a panel of experts.
The fact that Fulda is the new centre of recorder making is underlined not only by the number of brand manufacturers that have set up their workshops in the city (FEHR, Kunath, Mollenhauer, Paetzold by Kunath),
but also by the fact that the Education Oscar in woodwind instrument making went to Fulda for the third time this year.
In 2015, Maja Huber (Kunath Instrumentenbau) secured the coveted trophy, in 2016 Sina Bayer (Conrad Mollenhauer GmbH) won the prize and in 2019 Jennifer Hövelkamp (Kunath Instrumentenbau) took the Oscar back to Fulda.
It's worth keeping an eye on this new centre of recorder making.