- Neanderthal Flute - http://www.webster.sk.ca/greenwich/fl-compl.htm
Musicological analysis by Bob Fink of the oldest musical instrument, including it significance to the origin of music.
- 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.geocities.com/ren_cittern
Information on its history, articles, art, music, recordings, players, composers, and builders.
- Kim Christensen's Music Museum - http://musicmuseum.8m.com/
Private collection of music instruments with pictures, sound samples, history, and functional description.
- Ancestral Instruments by David Marshall - http://www.ancestral.co.uk/
Maker of a range of early instruments, including bagpipes, reedpipes, hornpipes, bag hornpipes, small shawms, mediaeval fiddles, rebec, tromba marina and citole.
- Stefano Meneghini's Early Music Page - http://www-ceb.bo.infn.it/meneghini/music_e.htm
Information about the harpsichord, virginal and clavichord, audio files, related links and early music iconography.
- Jeremy West Cornett - http://www.jeremywest.co.uk/index.html
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.
- Dulcians - http://www.hansmons.com/dulcians/index.html
A description of the Dulcian or Curtal, which is the renaissance predecessor of the bassoon.
- Organ of the Middle Ages - http://panther.bsc.edu/~jhcook/OrgHist/history/hist002.htm
History of the organ in western Europe after the fall of Rome.
- Rebec Page - http://crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/rebec.html
Origin and history of the rebec, construction, playing, tuning, bibliography, and many illustrations.
- Troubadours & Instruments - http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/articles/troubadours.and.instruments.html
A paper titled "Peirol's Vielle, instrumental participation in the troubadour repertory" by Joel Cohen.
- Bate Collection of Musical Instruments - http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/BCMIPage.html
An extensive and systematic collection of European orchestral woodwind instruments donated to the University of Oxford by Philip Bate.
- Musical Instruments Described - http://www.radix.net/~dglenn/defs/inst.html
Descriptions and pictures of early (i.e. pre-Baroque), non-Western, or obscure musical instruments.
- Contrabass Compendium - http://www.contrabass.com/pages/compendium.html
A list of bass and contrabass instruments, past and present.
- 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.
- John's Music Things - http://www.cb1.com/~john/misc/music.html
Description of medieval singing techniques and the musical instruments he plays.
- Lars' Baroque Flute Corner - http://www.gruk.net/lars/BaroqueFluteCorner.html
Information on the Baroque flute, including instrument care and fingering charts.
- 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.
- The Saxon Lyre - http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/lyre.html
History, construction, and playing techniques.
- Dragon Early Music - http://www.earlymusic.gil.com.au/
An Australian business, specializing in recorders and other early woodwinds.
- Renaissance Workshop Company - http://www.renwks.com/
Descriptions, photos, prices, and online ordering for their Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque musical instruments and kits.
- Owen Morse-Brown - http://www.owenmorse-brown.com/
Hand made early stringed instruments.
- 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.
- Tony Lacey Instrument Maker - http://www.wass.co.uk/music/
Instrument maker based in Wass, North Yorkshire, specialising in early music and mediaeval instruments.
- Kelischek Workshop for Historical Instruments - http://www.susato.com/
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.
- The Early Music Shop - http://www.e-m-s.com/
Selling kits and ready-made instruments such as recorders, clavichords, lutes, psalteries and citterns. Based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.
- 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.
- Serpent Website - http://www.serpentwebsite.com/
Provides basic information for the interested lay person on all aspects of the instrument, from its early history to the present.
- OcarinaLand: Gemshorn - http://s89015200.onlinehome.us/oc-land/gemshorn.html
Information and overview of this 16th-century form of vessel flute.
- 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.
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