| Directory > Arts > Music > Styles > Early Music > Instruments 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/
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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.
http://www.instrumentsmedievaux.org/
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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.
http://www.e-m-s.com/
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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.
http://www.susato.com/
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Glass Music
Lynn Drye performs on a variety of glass instruments including Glass Armonica, Glass Xylophone,
Glass Harp, and Musical Bowls.
http://www.glassvirtuoso.us/
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Tony Lacey Instrument Maker
Instrument maker based in Wass, North Yorkshire, specialising in early music and mediaeval
instruments.
http://www.wass.co.uk/music/
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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.
http://www.baroquemusic.org/barluthp.html
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Owen Morse-Brown
Hand made early stringed instruments.
http://www.owenmorse-brown.com/
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Charles Wells Early Woodwinds
Maker of transverse flutes of the renaissance, baroque and classical periods.
http://www.kawells.fsnet.co.uk
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John's Ophicleide Directory
A photographic and links directory for ophicleide players
http://www.wcwband.co.uk/ophicleide.htm
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Diabolus in Musica Guide to Early Instruments
Information on as many early instruments as possible.
http://www.diabolus.org/guide/guide-m.htm
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Renaissance Workshop Company
Descriptions, photos, prices, and online ordering for their Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque
musical instruments and kits.
http://www.renwks.com/
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Dragon Early Music
An Australian business, specializing in recorders and other early woodwinds.
http://www.earlymusic.gil.com.au/
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Historic Percussion
Resources and links.
http://www.ccsi.com/~bobs/histperc.html
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The Saxon Lyre
History, construction, and playing techniques.
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/lyre.html
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Gospel Music Renaissance
Online beginner's instruction in early instruments, including panpipes, bandurria, mandolin, and
6-hole keyless flute.
http://www16.brinkster.com/arminian/Renaissance/index.html
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Thomas Block Glass Harmonica
A soloist who specializes in this rare instrument, manufactured by Gerhard Finkenbeiner.
http://www.chez.com/thomasbloch/engGLASS.htm
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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.
http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/musi/Callon/2273/Instr.htm
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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.
http://www.unh.edu/music/igref.htm
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G. Finkenbeiner Inc.
They work in the industry of scientific glassblowing as well as manufacture glass harmonicas.
http://www.finkenbeiner.com/
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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.
http://www.serpentwebsite.com/
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Lars' Baroque Flute Corner
Information on the Baroque flute, including instrument care and fingering charts.
http://www.gruk.net/lars/BaroqueFluteCorner.html
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Early Music Files and Images Collected by Charlie Jackson
Sound files and images of instruments from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
http://members.aol.com/cornetto45/cj/cjmusic.html
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John's Music Things
Description of medieval singing techniques and the musical instruments he plays.
http://www.cb1.com/~john/misc/music.html
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America's Shrine to 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/
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Contrabass Compendium
A list of bass and contrabass instruments, past and present.
http://www.contrabass.com/pages/compendium.html
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Pifarri Page
Wind instrument ensembles in Italy from 1450 to 1620 by Brenda Johnstone.
http://oak.cc.conncoll.edu/~bjjoh/pifarri.html
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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
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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
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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
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Wind Instruments of the Renaissance
Information on wind instruments of the Renaissance.
http://www.dreamscape.com/quando7/index.htm
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The Guitar Pre-1650
A small history of the guitar and its predecessors by W. J. (Joe) Bethancourt III .
http://www.malaspina.com/harp/guitar/
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Rebec Page
Origin and history of the rebec, construction, playing, tuning, bibliography, and many
illustrations.
http://crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/rebec.html
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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
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Dulcians
A description of the Dulcian or Curtal, which is the renaissance predecessor of the bassoon.
http://www.hansmons.com/dulcians/index.html
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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
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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.
http://www.jeremywest.co.uk/index.html
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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.
http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/
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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.
http://www-ceb.bo.infn.it/meneghini/music_e.htm
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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.
http://www.tapiasgold.com/instruments.html
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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.
http://www.mimf.com/archives/cpvc_cornemuse.htm
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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.
http://www.ancestral.co.uk/
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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.
http://www.tsoft.com/~hbv/earlymus/
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Kim Christensen's Music Museum
Private collection of music instruments with pictures, sound samples, history, and functional
description.
http://musicmuseum.8m.com/
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Renaissance Cittern Page
Information on its history, articles, art, music, recordings, players, composers, and builders.
http://www.geocities.com/ren_cittern
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Early Music Ensembles and Brass/Percussion
Promoting the use of brass, timpani and other percussion in early music.
http://www.ccsi.com/~bobs/webhp4.html
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Historic Double Reed Instruments
Describes shawms, curtals, oboes, and bassoons made by Robert H. Cronin.
http://www.roberthcronin.com/
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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/
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Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
Musica Antiqua's illustrated guide: pictures, descriptions, and history.
http://www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/instrumt.html
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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
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Natural Trumpet Resource Page
Resources for those interested in the natural trumpet
http://www.goucher.edu/physics/baum/nattrump.htm
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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
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