Instruments

The history of bass string instruments such as the viola da gamba, violone, and double bass, along with their performance practices and iconography.

Describes shawms, curtals, oboes, and bassoons made by Robert H. Cronin.

Information on its history, articles, art, music, recordings, players, composers, and builders.

Private collection of music instruments with pictures, sound samples, history, and functional description.

Build a cornemuse in 1.5 hours, from an archived discussion from the Musical Instrument Makers Forum.

Descriptions of instruments used for dance music during the Renaissance, illustrated with period drawings.

A museum in Scotland open to the public contains 1000 items including stringed, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments from Britain, Europe, and distant lands.

A dictionary to provide the music lover with a reasonable amount of information about period instruments.

Origin and history of the rebec, construction, playing, tuning, bibliography, and many illustrations.

A list of bass and contrabass instruments, past and present.

Founded as an academic support unit of The University of South Dakota, this collection includes more than 10,000 American, European, and non-Western instruments from virtually all cultures and historical periods.

Description of medieval singing techniques and the musical instruments he plays.

Information on the Baroque flute, including instrument care and fingering charts.

Iconography of the horn, lute, pipe and tabor, and tambourine in Western-European Art.

Includes links to museums and collections, historical guides, historical sources and facsimiles, societies, individual instruments, and world instruments.

History, construction, and playing techniques.

Information on as many early instruments as possible.

Bach sought, and had custom-built, a harpsichord which sounded like a lute. Detailed description of history and construction.

Pictures of medieval instruments with illustrations from medieval art. Includes audio clips, bibliography and discography in French.

A book by Maggie Kilbey charting the history and development of the instrument and includes a catalogue of extant instruments around the world.

Early music and instruments, sound files of harpsichords and clavichords, and a table with pictures of the author's early music instruments collection, from medieval psalteries to Renaissance recorders.

Wind instrument ensembles in Italy from 1450 to 1620 by Brenda Flynn.

Information about lute, guitar and early keyboards.

Musica Antiqua's illustrated guide: pictures, descriptions, and history.

Musicological analysis by Bob Fink of the oldest musical instrument, including its significance to the origin of music.

Paper about the stages in the origins of music and its development.

An extensive and systematic collection of European orchestral woodwind instruments donated to the University of Oxford by Philip Bate.

Early music in various manifestations by Mark W Venn, including handmade Renaissance woodwind instruments, Cotswold Early Music Festival (formerly the Cirencester Early Music Festival), and the "Mozart" music software.

Bagpipes, crumhorns, drum, medieval fiddle, flutes, harp, tromba marina, rebec, symphony and hurdy-gurdies made by Bryan Tolley.

Instructions for building an instrument by Jörg Becker.

A description of the Dulcian or Curtal, which is the Renaissance predecessor of the bassoon.

Early Musical Instruments Music Treasures EarlyMusicalInstruments sales of ... Send e-mail to receive further information only about instruments currently listed ...[2008/11/10]

... of composers, ensembles and/or recordings of new music for early instruments. ... Various / New Music for Early Instruments - Ensemble Nova - 1995 - Website ...[2008/03/12]

Category:Early musical instruments. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... Musical instruments used in early music, i.e. Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque ...[2008/11/14]

It is my hope that New Music for Early Instruments will expand, and in the long ... Why write new music for early instruments? ...[2008/03/12]

... descriptions, and the history of the instruments used in playing early music. ... Instruments pictured are owned by Musica Antiqua, ensemble members, or ...[2008/10/18]

Nearly 1,000 links to articles, books, blogs, images, videos, CDs, sheet music & more on over 80 early instruments--instruments for the historically informed ...[2008/11/28]

Early music performance on historical instruments: lute, baroque guitar, recorders, rebec, vihuela, and percussion ... known early music groups have recorded ...[2008/11/12]

Descriptions and pictures of a bunch of musical instruments. Most of these are early (i.e. pre-Baroque), non-Western, or obscure, but I've included some that should ...[2007/10/20]

Lazar's Early Music offers a wide range of new and used recorders, violas da gamba, Baroque & modern violins, violas and cellos, early winds, sheet music and accessories[2008/11/19]

Over 300 links to articles, books, blogs, images, videos, CDs, sheet music & more on early string instruments--violin, cello, viol, lute, mandora, lyre, psaltery, ...[2008/11/22]