| Neanderthal Flute - Musicological analysis by Bob Fink of the oldest musical instrument, including it significance to the origin of music.
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| Natural Trumpet Resource Page - Resources for those interested in the natural trumpet
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| Stages in Evolution of Scales, Melody and Harmony - Paper about the stages in the origins of music and its development.
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| Medieval and Renaissance Instruments - Musica Antiqua's illustrated guide: pictures, descriptions, and history.
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| Joelle Morton - Joelle Morton's homepage, detailing the use of historical bowed bass instruments, including the violone, great bass viol, viola da gamba and period double basses of all kinds.
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| Historic Double Reed Instruments - Describes shawms, curtals, oboes, and bassoons made by Robert H. Cronin.
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| Renaissance Cittern Page - Information on its history, articles, art, music, recordings, players, composers, and builders.
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| Kim Christensen's Music Museum - Private collection of music instruments with pictures, sound samples, history, and functional description.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Tapia's Gold - Instruments of the Renaissance - Descriptions of instruments used for dance music during the renaissance, illustrated with period drawings.
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| Stefano Meneghini's Early Music Page - Information about the harpsichord, virginal and clavichord, audio files, related links and early music iconography.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Culturekiosque Klassiknet: Baroque Instruments - A dictionary to provide the music lover with a reasonable amount of information about period instruments.
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| Dulcians - A description of the Dulcian or Curtal, which is the renaissance predecessor of the bassoon.
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| Organ of the Middle Ages - History of the organ in western Europe after the fall of Rome.
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| Rebec Page - Origin and history of the rebec, construction, playing, tuning, bibliography, and many illustrations.
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| Wind Instruments of the Renaissance - Information on wind instruments of the Renaissance.
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| Troubadours & Instruments - A paper titled "Peirol's Vielle, instrumental participation in the troubadour repertory" by Joel Cohen.
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| The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments - Includes historic keyboard instruments
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| Musical Instruments Described - Descriptions and pictures of early (i.e. pre-Baroque), non-Western, or obscure musical instruments.
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| Pifarri Page - Wind instrument ensembles in Italy from 1450 to 1620 by Brenda Johnstone.
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| Contrabass Compendium - A list of bass and contrabass instruments, past and present.
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| 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.
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| John's Music Things - Description of medieval singing techniques and the musical instruments he plays.
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| Lars' Baroque Flute Corner - Information on the Baroque flute, including instrument care and fingering charts.
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| Mary Rasmussen's Horn and Lute Iconography - Iconography of the horn, lute, pipe and tabor, and tambourine in Western-European Art.
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| Links to History of Musical Instruments - Includes links to museums and collections, historical guides, historical sources and facsimiles, societies, individual instruments, and world instruments.
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| The Saxon Lyre - History, construction, and playing techniques.
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| Dragon Early Music - An Australian business, specializing in recorders and other early woodwinds.
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| Renaissance Workshop Company - Descriptions, photos, prices, and online ordering for their Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque musical instruments and kits.
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| Diabolus in Musica Guide to Early Instruments - Information on as many early instruments as possible.
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| John's Ophicleide Directory - A photographic and links directory for ophicleide players
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| Charles Wells Early Woodwinds - Maker of transverse flutes of the renaissance, baroque and classical periods.
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| Owen Morse-Brown - Hand made early stringed instruments.
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| Lute-Harpsichord: A Forgotten Instrument - Bach sought, and had custom-built, a harpsichord which sounded like a lute. Detailed description of history and construction.
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| Tony Lacey Instrument Maker - Instrument maker based in Wass, North Yorkshire, specialising in early music and mediaeval instruments.
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| 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 Brasstown, North Carolina since 1955. Prices, photographs, and links.
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| The Early Music Shop - Selling kits and ready-made instruments such as recorders, clavichords, lutes, psalteries and citterns. Based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.
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| Instruments to Play Medieval Music - Pictures of medieval instruments with illustrations from medieval art. Includes audio clips, bibliography and discography in French.
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| 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.
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| Serpent Website - Provides basic information for the interested lay person on all aspects of the instrument, from its early history to the present.
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| OcarinaLand: Gemshorn - Information and overview of this 16th-century form of vessel flute.
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