Instruments
Instruments
Instruments Links
- Organ of the Middle Ages History of the organ in western Europe after the fall of Rome.
- P.G. Bleazey Handmade Woodwind and Percussion Instruments Copies of woodwind instruments of the flute family from as early as the 13th century to the renaissance period, and percussion instruments based on originals in museums throughout England.
- Renaissance Workshop Company Ltd. An early music workshop making medieval (mediaeval), renaissance and baroque musical instruments for historical performance.
- Ancient Lithuanian Kanklës History, acoustics, and playing technique of a stringed folk instrument similar to a hammered dulcimer.
- Renaissance Consort Demonstration of a consort of renaissance instruments by Yasuhiko Higaki.
- Serpent Website Provides basic information for the interested lay person on all aspects of the instrument, from its early history through the present day.
- Stefano Meneghini's Early Music Page Information about the harpsichord, virginal and clavichord, audio files, related links and early music iconography.
- Eltonbury Music Maker of simple plucked psalteries and similar instruments.
- Renaissance Cittern Page Information on its history, articles, art, music, recordings, players, composers, and builders.
- David Jarratt-Knock Personal and instrument information about this renaissance cornetto performer.
- Ancestral Instruments by David Marshall Maker of a range of early instruments, including bagpipes, reedpipes, hornpipes, bag hornpipes, small shawms, mediaeval fiddles, rebec, tromba marina and citole.
- The Guitar Pre-1650 A small history of the guitar and its predecessors by W. J. (Joe) Bethancourt III .
- Natural Trumpet Resource Page Resources for those interested in the natural trumpet
- Baroque style wooden recorders
- America's Shrine to 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.
- Medieval and Renaissance Instruments Musica Antiqua's illustrated guide: pictures, descriptions, and history.
- Links to History of Musical Instruments Includes links to museums and collections, historical guides, historical sources and facsimiles, societies, individual instruments, and world instruments.
- Unlocking the Secrets of the Kinnor and the bar Kochba Coins Research by Dennis F. McCorkle about the tuning of the harp lyre kinnor of King David as seen on the bar Kochba coins from ancient Israel, and other sources.
- Jeremy West Cornett Information on the 17th century cornetto, performance with His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, manufacture of cornetti and other instruments by Christopher Monk Instruments, and instruction at the Royal College of Music in London.
- Troubadours & Instruments A paper titled "Peirol's Vielle, instrumental participation in the troubadour repertory" by Joel Cohen.
- Diabolus in Musica Guide to Early Instruments Information on as many early instruments as possible.
- Musical Instruments Described Descriptions and pictures of early (i.e. pre-Baroque), non-Western, or obscure musical instruments.
- Lars' Baroque Flute Corner Information on the Baroque flute, including instrument care and fingering charts.
- Rare Lesser-Spotted Double Reeds Information about the crumhorn, curtal, nyckelharpa, ophicleide, and heckelphone.
- Dolmetsch Online dolmetsch musical instruments, summer courses, online theory and recorder lessons
- von Huene Workshop, Inc. Maker and dealer of historical woodwinds. They also repair instruments and sell music, accessories and instruments by all makers of historical woodwinds, strings and keyboards.
- Sandro Asinari Violinmaker in Cremona Italy Sandro asinari make and repair bowed instruments
- Early Music Ensembles and Brass/Percussion Promoting the use of brass, timpani and other percussion in early music.
- Rebec Page Origin and history of the rebec, construction, playing, tuning, bibliography, and many illustrations.
- Matthew Szostak's Hurdy-Gurdy Page Information about this hurdy-gurdy builder and player, a description of the instrument, audio samples and links.
- Balázs Nagy Hurdy-gurdy maker from Budapest, who provides copies of museum pieces, modified versions for modern performance, repair work, tuning and construction of cases.
- Historic Double Reed Instruments Describes shawms, curtals, oboes, and bassoons made by Robert H. Cronin.
- Culturekiosque Klassiknet: Baroque Instruments A dictionary to provide the music lover with a reasonable amount of information about period instruments.
- Kelischek Workshop for Historical Instruments / Kelhorn Corporation Manufacturer, publisher, distributor and dealer of Susato pennywhistles, tabor-pipes, pentatonic recorders wide-bore renaissance style recorders snappy-thumbrests, crumhorns, and hurdy-gurdies.
- Microwave Theory of a Crumhorn Applying microwave design techniques to renaissance woodwind musical instruments, by Charlie Jackson.
- Instruments to Play Medieval Music Pictures of medieval instruments with illustrations from medieval art. Includes audio clips, bibliography and discography in French.
- John's Music Things Description of medieval singing techniques and the musical instruments he plays.
- 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.
- Antique Sound Workshop, Ltd. Information about the history, publications, and sales policies of the workshop.
- Dolmetsch Musical Instruments Sales, restoration and repair of early instruments, information and articles, sheet music, advice and useful links.
- Wind Instruments of the Renaissance Information on wind instruments of the Renaissance.
- Bate Collection of Musical Instruments An extensive and systematic collection of European orchestral woodwind instruments donated to the University of Oxford by Philip Bate.
- Gospel Music Renaissance Online beginner's instruction in early instruments, including panpipes, bandurria, mandolin, and 6-hole keyless flute.
- Dulcians A description of the Dulcian or Curtal, which is the renaissance predecessor of the bassoon.
- Alden and Cali Hackmann's Hurdy-gurdy Site Information of all sorts about the hurdy-gurdy, also called the vielle à roue.
- Early Music Files and Images Collected by Charlie Jackson Sound files and images of instruments from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
- Neanderthal Flute Musicological analysis by Bob Fink of the oldest musical instrument, including it significance to the origin of music.
- Boudreau-Flûtes Boudreau Flûtes
- Beunk & Wennink Early pianos restored, sold, rented.
- 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.
- Contrabass Compendium A list of bass and contrabass instruments, past and present.
- Lute-Harpsichord: A Forgotten Instrument Bach sought, and had custom-built, a harpsichord which sounded like a lute. Detailed description of history and construction.
- Crumhorn Home Page Information about the crumhorn, including listings of makers, sound files, bibliography and links.
- Pifarri Page Wind instrument ensembles in Italy from 1450 to 1620 by Brenda Johnstone.
| Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web. |
| Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor |