Instruments (Early Music)

Instruments further on these related pages:

Bagpipe@ Brass@ Crumhorn Harpsichord@ Historic Organs@ Hurdy Gurdy Keyboard@

Lute Musical Glass@ Pipe Organs@ Pipe and Tabor Recorder@ Shopping@ Tin Whistle@

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Owen Morse-Brown Owen Morse-Brown: Hand made early stringed instruments. (Instruments) http://www.owenmorse-brown.com/ Troubadours & Instruments Troubadours & Instruments: A paper titled "Peirol's Vielle, instrumental participation in the troubadour repertory" by Joel Cohen. (Instruments) http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/articles/troubadours.and.instruments.html Charles Wells Early Woodwinds Charles Wells Early Woodwinds: Maker of transverse flutes of the renaissance, baroque and classical periods. (Instruments) http://www.kawells.fsnet.co.uk Stages in Evolution of Scales, Melody and Harmony Stages in Evolution of Scales, Melody and Harmony: Paper about the stages in the origins of music and its development. (Instruments) http://www.webster.sk.ca/GREENWICH/stages.HTM Organ of the Middle Ages Organ of the Middle Ages: History of the organ in western Europe after the fall of Rome. (Instruments) http://panther.bsc.edu/~jhcook/OrgHist/history/hist002.htm Dragon Early Music Dragon Early Music: An Australian business, specializing in recorders and other early woodwinds. (Instruments) http://www.earlymusic.gil.com.au/ Wind Instruments of the Renaissance Wind Instruments of the Renaissance: Information on wind instruments of the Renaissance. (Instruments) http://www.dreamscape.com/quando7/index.htm Natural Trumpet Resource Page Natural Trumpet Resource Page: Resources for those interested in the natural trumpet (Instruments) http://www.goucher.edu/physics/baum/nattrump.htm Culturekiosque Klassiknet: Baroque Instruments Culturekiosque Klassiknet: Baroque Instruments: A dictionary to provide the music lover with a reasonable amount of information about period instruments. (Instruments) http://www.culturekiosque.com/klassik/features/fa1baroq.htm Rebec Page Rebec Page: Origin and history of the rebec, construction, playing, tuning, bibliography, and many illustrations. (Instruments) http://crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/rebec.html A Loud, Low Cost Cornemuse You Can Build from CPVC 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. (Instruments) http://www.mimf.com/archives/cpvc_cornemuse.htm Pifarri Page Pifarri Page: Wind instrument ensembles in Italy from 1450 to 1620 by Brenda Johnstone. (Instruments) http://oak.cc.conncoll.edu/~bjjoh/pifarri.html Links to History of Musical Instruments Links to History of Musical Instruments: Includes links to museums and collections, historical guides, historical sources and facsimiles, societies, individual instruments, and world instruments. (Instruments) http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/musi/Callon/2273/Instr.htm Lars' Baroque Flute Corner Lars' Baroque Flute Corner: Information on the Baroque flute, including instrument care and fingering charts. (Instruments) http://www.gruk.net/lars/BaroqueFluteCorner.html Neanderthal Flute Neanderthal Flute: Musicological analysis by Bob Fink of the oldest musical instrument, including it significance to the origin of music. (Instruments) http://www.webster.sk.ca/greenwich/fl-compl.htm Historic Double Reed Instruments Historic Double Reed Instruments: Describes shawms, curtals, oboes, and bassoons made by Robert H. Cronin. (Instruments) http://www.roberthcronin.com/ Lute-Harpsichord: A Forgotten Instrument Lute-Harpsichord: A Forgotten Instrument: Bach sought, and had custom-built, a harpsichord which sounded like a lute. Detailed description of history and construction. (Instruments) http://www.baroquemusic.org/barluthp.html Joëlle Morton's Historical Bass 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. (Instruments) http://www.greatbassviol.com/ Renaissance Workshop Company Renaissance Workshop Company: Descriptions, photos, prices, and online ordering for their Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque musical instruments and kits. (Instruments) http://www.renwks.com/ Musical Instruments Described Musical Instruments Described: Descriptions and pictures of early (i.e. pre-Baroque), non-Western, or obscure musical instruments. (Instruments) http://www.radix.net/~dglenn/defs/inst.html Instruments to Play Medieval Music Instruments to Play Medieval Music: Pictures of medieval instruments with illustrations from medieval art. Includes audio clips, bibliography and discography in French. (Instruments) http://www.instrumentsmedievaux.org/ John's Music Things John's Music Things: Description of medieval singing techniques and the musical instruments he plays. (Instruments) http://www.cb1.com/~john/misc/music.html Tony Lacey Instrument Maker Tony Lacey Instrument Maker: Instrument maker based in Wass, North Yorkshire, specialising in early music and mediaeval instruments. (Instruments) http://www.wass.co.uk/music/ Stefano Meneghini's Early Music Page Stefano Meneghini's Early Music Page: Information about the harpsichord, virginal and clavichord, audio files, related links and early music iconography. (Instruments) http://www-ceb.bo.infn.it/meneghini/music_e.htm Medieval and Renaissance Instruments Medieval and Renaissance Instruments: Musica Antiqua's illustrated guide: pictures, descriptions, and history. (Instruments) http://www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/instrumt.html Ancestral Instruments by David Marshall 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. (Instruments) http://www.ancestral.co.uk/ Early Music Vincent Ho 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. (Instruments) http://www.tsoft.com/~hbv/earlymus/ OcarinaLand: Gemshorn OcarinaLand: Gemshorn: Information and overview of this 16th-century form of vessel flute. (Instruments) http://s89015200.onlinehome.us/oc-land/gemshorn.html Curtal, Dulcian, Bajón: A History of the Precursor to the Bassoon Curtal, Dulcian, Bajón: A History of the Precursor to the Bassoon: A book by Maggie Kilbey charting the history and development of the instrument and includes a catalogue of extant instruments around the world. (Instruments) http://www.curtalbook.com/ John's Ophicleide Directory John's Ophicleide Directory: A photographic and links directory for ophicleide players (Instruments) http://www.wcwband.co.uk/ophicleide.htm Bate Collection of Musical Instruments Bate Collection of Musical Instruments: An extensive and systematic collection of European orchestral woodwind instruments donated to the University of Oxford by Philip Bate. (Instruments) http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/BCMIPage.html Renaissance Cittern Page Renaissance Cittern Page: Information on its history, articles, art, music, recordings, players, composers, and builders. (Instruments) http://www.geocities.com/ren_cittern Diabolus in Musica Guide to Early Instruments Diabolus in Musica Guide to Early Instruments: Information on as many early instruments as possible. (Instruments) http://www.diabolus.org/guide/guide-m.htm The Early Music Shop The Early Music Shop: Selling kits and ready-made instruments such as recorders, clavichords, lutes, psalteries and citterns. Based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. (Instruments) http://www.e-m-s.com/ Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments 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. (Instruments) http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/ Mary Rasmussen's Horn and Lute Iconography Mary Rasmussen's Horn and Lute Iconography: Iconography of the horn, lute, pipe and tabor, and tambourine in Western-European Art. (Instruments) http://www.unh.edu/music/igref.htm Jeremy West Cornett 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. (Instruments) http://www.jeremywest.co.uk/index.html Kim Christensen's Music Museum Kim Christensen's Music Museum: Private collection of music instruments with pictures, sound samples, history, and functional description. (Instruments) http://musicmuseum.8m.com/ National Music Museum 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. (Instruments) http://www.usd.edu/smm/ Tapia's Gold - Instruments of the Renaissance Tapia's Gold - Instruments of the Renaissance: Descriptions of instruments used for dance music during the renaissance, illustrated with period drawings. (Instruments) http://www.tapiasgold.com/instruments.html Serpent Website Serpent Website: Provides basic information for the interested lay person on all aspects of the instrument, from its early history to the present. (Instruments) http://www.serpentwebsite.com/ Contrabass Compendium Contrabass Compendium: A list of bass and contrabass instruments, past and present. (Instruments) http://www.contrabass.com/pages/compendium.html Dulcians Dulcians: A description of the Dulcian or Curtal, which is the renaissance predecessor of the bassoon. (Instruments) http://www.hansmons.com/dulcians/index.html The Saxon Lyre The Saxon Lyre: History, construction, and playing techniques. (Instruments) http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/lyre.html Kelischek Workshop for Historical Instruments Kelischek Workshop for Historical Instruments: German craftsman George Kelischek manufactures and sells Susato pennywhistles as well as his own designs for the tabor-pipe, galoubet, txistu, ocarina, crumhorn, hurdy-gurdy, viola d'amore, rebec, dulcimer, and a wide variety of recorders, based in Brasst (Instruments) http://www.susato.com/