The Rottenburgh family was the leading provider of wind instruments to the Belgian market in the 1700s, supplying the Royal Palace of Brussels and all of the city's cathedrals.
Jean-Hyacinth made woodwind and string instruments which are still valued today for use in early music ensembles; particularly recorders, flutes, oboes, bassoons, violins and cellos.
As a string instrument maker, Rottenburgh followed Flemish and German convention of construction, while simultaneously being influenced by Italian practices and preferences in proportion and timbre.
This was followed by journal articles on the family published in Musica antiqua : actuele informatie over oude muziek (November 1988 and February 1989).
The Rottenburgh line of recorders developed for Moeck were funded through a Guggenheim Fellowship given to Heine in 1966.