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Instruments Early Music Styles
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- Pictures of medieval instruments with illustrations from medieval art. Includes audio clips, bibliography and discography in French.
- Descriptions and pictures of early (i.e. pre-Baroque), non-Western, or obscure musical instruments.
- Describes shawms, curtals, oboes, and bassoons made by Robert H. Cronin.
- A dictionary to provide the music lover with a reasonable amount of information about period instruments.
- Musica Antiqua's illustrated guide: pictures, descriptions, and history.
- Maker of a range of early instruments, including bagpipes, reedpipes, hornpipes, bag hornpipes, small shawms, mediaeval fiddles, rebec, tromba marina and citole.
- Descriptions of instruments used for dance music during the renaissance, illustrated with period drawings.
- Origin and history of the rebec, construction, playing, tuning, bibliography, and many illustrations.
- Wind instrument ensembles in Italy from 1450 to 1620 by Brenda Johnstone.
- A description of the Dulcian or Curtal, which is the renaissance predecessor of the bassoon.
- Hand made early stringed instruments.
- An extensive and systematic collection of European orchestral woodwind instruments donated to the University of Oxford by Philip Bate.
- A museum in Scotland open to the public contains 1000 items including stringed, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments from Britain, Europe, and distant lands.
- Resources for those interested in the natural trumpet
- An Australian business, specializing in recorders and other early woodwinds.
- Information and overview of this 16th-century form of vessel flute.
- 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
- Maker of transverse flutes of the renaissance, baroque and classical periods.
- Musicological analysis by Bob Fink of the oldest musical instrument, including it significance to the origin of music.
- Information on wind instruments of the Renaissance.
- 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.
- Iconography of the horn, lute, pipe and tabor, and tambourine in Western-European Art.
- History of the organ in western Europe after the fall of Rome.
- Descriptions, photos, prices, and online ordering for their Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque musical instruments and kits.
- Provides basic information for the interested lay person on all aspects of the instrument, from its early history to the present.
- Build a cornemuse in 1.5 hours, from an archived discussion from the Musical Instrument Makers Forum.
- Information on as many early instruments as possible.
- The history of bass string instruments such as the viola da gamba, violone, and double bass, along with their performance practices and iconography.
- Instructions for building an instrument.
- Selling kits and ready-made instruments such as recorders, clavichords, lutes, psalteries and citterns. Based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.
- Instrument maker based in Wass, North Yorkshire, specialising in early music and mediaeval instruments.
- Information about the harpsichord, virginal and clavichord, audio files, related links and early music iconography.
- Includes links to museums and collections, historical guides, historical sources and facsimiles, societies, individual instruments, and world instruments.
- 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.
- A list of bass and contrabass instruments, past and present.
- Paper about the stages in the origins of music and its development.
- Description of medieval singing techniques and the musical instruments he plays.
- Information on its history, articles, art, music, recordings, players, composers, and builders.
- 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.
- History, construction, and playing techniques.
- Information on the Baroque flute, including instrument care and fingering charts.
- A book by Maggie Kilbey charting the history and development of the instrument and includes a catalogue of extant instruments around the world.
- Bach sought, and had custom-built, a harpsichord which sounded like a lute. Detailed description of history and construction.
- Private collection of music instruments with pictures, sound samples, history, and functional description.
- A paper titled "Peirol's Vielle, instrumental participation in the troubadour repertory" by Joel Cohen.
- A photographic and links directory for ophicleide players
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