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