An Exhibition of Early Musical Instruments
- Bagpipes, crumhorns, drum, medieval fiddle, flutes, harp, tromba marina, rebec, symphony and hurdy-gurdies made by Bryan Tolley.
- http://members.aol.com/vielleur/index1.html
Windcaps
- 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.
- http://www.windcaps.co.uk/
Bate Collection of Musical Instruments
- An extensive and systematic collection of European orchestral woodwind instruments donated to the University of Oxford by Philip Bate.
- http://www.bate.ox.ac.uk
Neanderthal Flute
- Musicological analysis by Bob Fink of the oldest musical instrument, including its significance to the origin of music.
- http://www.greenwych.ca/fl-compl.htm
Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
- Musica Antiqua's illustrated guide: pictures, descriptions, and history.
- http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/instrumt.html
Kenneth Sparr
- Information about lute, guitar and early keyboards.
- http://www.tabulatura.com/
Pifarri Page
- Wind instrument ensembles in Italy from 1450 to 1620 by Brenda Flynn.
- http://tiltedworld.com/brenda/pifarri.html
Early Music Vincent Ho
- 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.
- http://www.rawbw.com/~hbv/earlymus/
Instruments to Play Medieval Music
- Pictures of medieval instruments with illustrations from medieval art. Includes audio clips, bibliography and discography in French.
- http://www.instrumentsmedievaux.org/
Lute-Harpsichord: A Forgotten Instrument
- Bach sought, and had custom-built, a harpsichord which sounded like a lute. Detailed description of history and construction.
- http://www.baroquemusic.org/barluthp.html
The Saxon Lyre
- History, construction, and playing techniques.
- http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/lyre.html
Links to History of Musical Instruments
- Includes links to museums and collections, historical guides, historical sources and facsimiles, societies, individual instruments, and world instruments.
- http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/musi/Callon/2273/Instr.htm
Mary Rasmussen's Horn and Lute Iconography
- Iconography of the horn, lute, pipe and tabor, and tambourine in Western-European Art.
- http://www.unh.edu/music/igref.htm
Lars' Baroque Flute Corner
- Information on the Baroque flute, including instrument care and fingering charts.
- http://www.gruk.net/lars/BaroqueFluteCorner.html
John's Music Things
- Description of medieval singing techniques and the musical instruments he plays.
- http://www.cb1.com/~john/misc/music.html
National Music Museum
- 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.
- http://www.usd.edu/smm/
Contrabass Compendium
- A list of bass and contrabass instruments, past and present.
- http://www.contrabass.com/pages/compendium.html
Musical Instruments Described
- Descriptions and pictures of early (i.e. pre-Baroque), non-Western, or obscure musical instruments.
- http://www.radix.net/~dglenn/defs/inst.html
Rebec Page
- Origin and history of the rebec, construction, playing, tuning, bibliography, and many illustrations.
- http://crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/rebec.html
Dulcians
- A description of the Dulcian or Curtal, which is the renaissance predecessor of the bassoon.
- http://www.hansmons.com/dulcians/index.html
Culturekiosque Klassiknet: Baroque Instruments
- A dictionary to provide the music lover with a reasonable amount of information about period instruments.
- http://www.culturekiosque.com/klassik/features/fa1baroq.htm
Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments
- A museum in Scotland open to the public contains 1000 items including stringed, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments from Britain, Europe, and distant lands.
- http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/
Tapia's Gold - Instruments of the Renaissance
- Descriptions of instruments used for dance music during the renaissance, illustrated with period drawings.
- http://www.tapiasgold.com/instruments.html
A Loud, Low Cost Cornemuse You Can Build from CPVC
- Build a cornemuse in 1.5 hours, from an archived discussion from the Musical Instrument Makers Forum.
- http://www.mimf.com/archives/cpvc_cornemuse.htm
Kim Christensen's Music Museum
- Private collection of music instruments with pictures, sound samples, history, and functional description.
- http://musicmuseum.8m.com/
Historic Double Reed Instruments
- Describes shawms, curtals, oboes, and bassoons made by Robert H. Cronin.
- http://www.roberthcronin.com/
Joëlle Morton's Historical Bass
- The history of bass string instruments such as the viola da gamba, violone, and double bass, along with their performance practices and iconography.
- http://www.greatbassviol.com/