Neanderthal Flute

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

Natural Trumpet Resource Page

Resources for those interested in the natural trumpet
http://www.goucher.edu/physics/baum/nattrump.htm

Stages in Evolution of Scales, Melody and Harmony

Paper about the stages in the origins of music and its development.
http://www.webster.sk.ca/GREENWICH/stages.HTM

Medieval and Renaissance Instruments

Musica Antiqua's illustrated guide: pictures, descriptions, and history.
http://www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/instrumt.html

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.
http://www.greatbassviol.com/

Historic Double Reed Instruments

Describes shawms, curtals, oboes, and bassoons made by Robert H. Cronin.
http://www.roberthcronin.com/

Renaissance Cittern Page

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

Kim Christensen's Music Museum

Private collection of music instruments with pictures, sound samples, history, and functional description.
http://musicmuseum.8m.com/

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.
http://www.ancestral.co.uk/

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.
http://www.mimf.com/archives/cpvc_cornemuse.htm

Tapia's Gold - Instruments of the Renaissance

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

Stefano Meneghini's Early Music Page

Information about the harpsichord, virginal and clavichord, audio files, related links and early music iconography.
http://www-ceb.bo.infn.it/meneghini/music_e.htm

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.
http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/

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.
http://www.jeremywest.co.uk/index.html

Culturekiosque Klassiknet: Baroque Instruments

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

Dulcians

A description of the Dulcian or Curtal, which is the renaissance predecessor of the bassoon.
http://www.hansmons.com/dulcians/index.html

Organ of the Middle Ages

History of the organ in western Europe after the fall of Rome.
http://panther.bsc.edu/~jhcook/OrgHist/history/hist002.htm

Rebec Page

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

Wind Instruments of the Renaissance

Information on wind instruments of the Renaissance.
http://www.dreamscape.com/quando7/index.htm

Troubadours & Instruments

A paper titled "Peirol's Vielle, instrumental participation in the troubadour repertory" by Joel Cohen.
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/articles/troubadours.and.instruments.html

Bate Collection of Musical Instruments

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

Musical Instruments Described

Descriptions and pictures of early (i.e. pre-Baroque), non-Western, or obscure musical instruments.
http://www.radix.net/~dglenn/defs/inst.html

Contrabass Compendium

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

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.
http://www.usd.edu/smm/

John's Music Things

Description of medieval singing techniques and the musical instruments he plays.
http://www.cb1.com/~john/misc/music.html

Lars' Baroque Flute Corner

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

Mary Rasmussen's Horn and Lute Iconography

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

Links to History of Musical Instruments

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

The Saxon Lyre

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

Dragon Early Music

An Australian business, specializing in recorders and other early woodwinds.
http://www.earlymusic.gil.com.au/

Renaissance Workshop Company

Descriptions, photos, prices, and online ordering for their Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque musical instruments and kits.
http://www.renwks.com/

Diabolus in Musica Guide to Early Instruments

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

John's Ophicleide Directory

A photographic and links directory for ophicleide players
http://www.wcwband.co.uk/ophicleide.htm

Charles Wells Early Woodwinds

Maker of transverse flutes of the renaissance, baroque and classical periods.
http://www.kawells.fsnet.co.uk

Owen Morse-Brown

Hand made early stringed instruments.
http://www.owenmorse-brown.com/

Lute-Harpsichord: A Forgotten Instrument

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

Tony Lacey Instrument Maker

Instrument maker based in Wass, North Yorkshire, specialising in early music and mediaeval instruments.
http://www.wass.co.uk/music/

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
http://www.susato.com/

The Early Music Shop

Selling kits and ready-made instruments such as recorders, clavichords, lutes, psalteries and citterns. Based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.
http://www.e-m-s.com/

Instruments to Play Medieval Music

Pictures of medieval instruments with illustrations from medieval art. Includes audio clips, bibliography and discography in French.
http://www.instrumentsmedievaux.org/

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.
http://www.curtalbook.com/

Serpent Website

Provides basic information for the interested lay person on all aspects of the instrument, from its early history to the present.
http://www.serpentwebsite.com/

OcarinaLand: Gemshorn

Information and overview of this 16th-century form of vessel flute.
http://s89015200.onlinehome.us/oc-land/gemshorn.html

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

Building a Cornamuse in F (Alto)

Instructions for building an instrument.
http://home.aol.com/GerRaith/corna.htm