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Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments - http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/
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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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. |
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Medieval and Renaissance Instruments - http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/instrumt.html
Musica Antiqua's illustrated guide: pictures, descriptions, and history. |
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Instruments to Play Medieval Music - http://www.instrumentsmedievaux.org/
Pictures of medieval instruments with illustrations from medieval art. Includes audio clips, bibliography and discography in French. |
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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. |
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Kenneth Sparr - http://www.tabulatura.com/
Information about lute, guitar and early keyboards. |
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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. |
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Diabolus in Musica Guide to Early Instruments - http://www.diabolus.org/guide/guide-m.htm
Information on as many early instruments as possible. |
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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. |
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Kim Christensen's Music Museum - http://musicmuseum.8m.com/
Private collection of music instruments with pictures, sound samples, history, and functional description. |
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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. |
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Rebec Page - http://crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/rebec.html
Origin and history of the rebec, construction, playing, tuning, bibliography, and many illustrations. |
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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. |
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Contrabass Compendium - http://www.contrabass.com/pages/compendium.html
A list of bass and contrabass instruments, past and present. |
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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. |
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The Saxon Lyre - http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/lyre.html
History, construction, and playing techniques. |
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Renaissance Cittern Page - http://www.cittern.theaterofmusic.com/
Information on its history, articles, art, music, recordings, players, composers, and builders. |
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A Loud, Low Cost Cornemuse You Can Build from CPVC - http://www.mimf.com/archives/cpvc_cornemuse.htm
Build a cornemuse in 1.5 hours, from an archived discussion from the Musical Instrument Makers Forum. |
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Dulcians - http://www.dulcians.org/
A description of the Dulcian or Curtal, which is the Renaissance predecessor of the bassoon. |
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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. |
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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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Lars' Baroque Flute Corner - http://www.gruk.net/lars/BaroqueFluteCorner.html
Information on the Baroque flute, including instrument care and fingering charts. |
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Historic Double Reed Instruments - http://www.roberthcronin.com/
Describes shawms, curtals, oboes, and bassoons made by Robert H. Cronin. |
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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. |
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Pifarri Page - http://tiltedworld.com/brenda/pifarri.html
Wind instrument ensembles in Italy from 1450 to 1620 by Brenda Flynn. |
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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. |
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John's Music Things - http://www.cb1.com/~john/misc/music.html
Description of medieval singing techniques and the musical instruments he plays. |
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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. |
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National Music Museum - http://www.usd.edu/smm/
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. |