Directory of Instruments Resources

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Musical instruments from the western world of the Baroque, Renaissance, Medieval and earlier periods.

Subcategories

• Bagpipe
• Baroque Flute
• Brass
• Crumhorn
• Early Guitars
• Harpsichord
• Historic Organs
• Hurdy Gurdy
• Keyboard
• Lute
• Musical Glass
• Pipe Organs
• Pipe and Tabor
• Recorder
• Shopping
• Tin Whistle
• Viola da Gamba

Resources in This Category

• Bate Collection of Musical Instruments

  http://www.bate.ox.ac.uk/
  An extensive and systematic collection of European orchestral woodwind instruments donated to the University of Oxford by Philip Bate.

• Contrabass Compendium

  http://www.contrabass.com/pages/compendium.html
  A list of bass and contrabass instruments, past and present.

• Culturekiosque Klassiknet: Baroque Instruments

  http://www.culturekiosque.com/klassik/features/fa1baroq.htm
  A dictionary to provide the music lover with a reasonable amount of information about period instruments.

• Curtal, Dulcian, Bajón: A History of the Precursor to the Bassoon

  http://www.curtalbook.com/
  A book by Maggie Kilbey charting the history and development of the instrument and includes a catalogue of extant instruments around the world.

• Diabolus in Musica Guide to Early Instruments

  http://www.diabolus.org/guide/guide-m.htm
  Information on as many early instruments as possible.

• Dulcians

  http://www.dulcians.org/
  A description of the Dulcian or Curtal, which is the Renaissance predecessor of the bassoon.

• Early Music Vincent Ho

  http://www.rawbw.com/~hbv/earlymus/
  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.

• Joëlle Morton's Historical Bass

  http://www.greatbassviol.com/
  The history of bass string instruments such as the viola da gamba, violone, and double bass, along with their performance practices and iconography.

• Kenneth Sparr

  http://www.tabulatura.com/
  Information about lute, guitar and early keyboards.

• Kim Christensen's Music Museum

  http://musikmuseum.dk/
  Private collection of music instruments with pictures, sound samples, history, and functional description. [English, Danish, German]

• Lars' Baroque Flute Corner

  http://www.gruk.net/lars/BaroqueFluteCorner.html
  Information on the Baroque flute, including instrument care and fingering charts.

• Links to History of Musical Instruments

  http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/musi/Callon/2273/Instr.htm
  Includes links to museums and collections, historical guides, historical sources and facsimiles, societies, individual instruments, and world instruments.

• Lute-Harpsichord: A Forgotten Instrument

  http://www.baroquemusic.org/barluthp.html
  Bach sought, and had custom-built, a harpsichord which sounded like a lute. Detailed description of history and construction.

• Mary Rasmussen's Horn and Lute Iconography

  http://www.unh.edu/music/igref.htm
  Iconography of the horn, lute, pipe and tabor, and tambourine in Western-European Art.

• Medieval and Renaissance Instruments

  http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/instrumt.html
  Musica Antiqua's illustrated guide: pictures, descriptions, and history.

• National Music Museum

  http://orgs.usd.edu/nmm/
  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.

• Neanderthal Flute

  http://www.greenwych.ca/fl-compl.htm
  Musicological analysis by Bob Fink of the oldest musical instrument, including its significance to the origin of music.

• Rebec Page

  http://crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/rebec.html
  Origin and history of the rebec, construction, playing, tuning, bibliography, and many illustrations.

• Renaissance Cittern Page

  http://www.cittern.theaterofmusic.com/
  Information on its history, articles, art, music, recordings, players, composers, and builders.

• Stages in Evolution of Scales, Melody and Harmony

  http://www.greenwych.ca/stages.htm
  Paper about the stages in the origins of music and its development.

• Tapia's Gold - Instruments of the Renaissance

  http://www.tapiasgold.com/instruments.html
  Descriptions of instruments used for dance music during the Renaissance, illustrated with period drawings.

• The Saxon Lyre

  http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/lyre.html
  History, construction, and playing techniques.

• Windcaps

  http://www.windcaps.co.uk/
  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.

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