Open Directory - Arts: Music: Styles: E: Early Music: Instruments
See also: This category in other languages: - An extensive and systematic collection of European orchestral woodwind instruments donated to the University of Oxford by Philip Bate. - A list of bass and contrabass instruments, past and present. - A dictionary to provide the music lover with a reasonable amount of information about period instruments. - A book by Maggie Kilbey charting the history and development of the instrument and includes a catalogue of extant instruments around the world. - Information on as many early instruments as possible. - A description of the Dulcian or Curtal, which is the Renaissance predecessor of the bassoon. - 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. - A museum in Scotland open to the public contains 1000 items including stringed, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments from Britain, Europe, and distant lands. - Pictures of medieval instruments with illustrations from medieval art. Includes audio clips, bibliography and discography in French. - Description of medieval singing techniques and the musical instruments he plays. - The history of bass string instruments such as the viola da gamba, violone, and double bass, along with their performance practices and iconography. - Information about lute, guitar and early keyboards. - Private collection of music instruments with pictures, sound samples, history, and functional description. - Information on the Baroque flute, including instrument care and fingering charts. - Includes links to museums and collections, historical guides, historical sources and facsimiles, societies, individual instruments, and world instruments. - Bach sought, and had custom-built, a harpsichord which sounded like a lute. Detailed description of history and construction. - Iconography of the horn, lute, pipe and tabor, and tambourine in Western-European Art. - Musica Antiqua's illustrated guide: pictures, descriptions, and history. - 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. - Musicological analysis by Bob Fink of the oldest musical instrument, including its significance to the origin of music. - Wind instrument ensembles in Italy from 1450 to 1620 by Brenda Flynn. - Origin and history of the rebec, construction, playing, tuning, bibliography, and many illustrations. - Information on its history, articles, art, music, recordings, players, composers, and builders. - Paper about the stages in the origins of music and its development. - Descriptions of instruments used for dance music during the Renaissance, illustrated with period drawings. - History, construction, and playing techniques. - 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.
