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Build a cornemuse in 1.5 hours, from an archived discussion from the Musical Instrument Makers Forum.
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Bagpipes, crumhorns, drum, medieval fiddle, flutes, harp, tromba marina, rebec, symphony and hurdy-gurdies made by Bryan Tolley.
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Instructions for building an instrument by Jörg Becker.
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A list of bass and contrabass instruments, past and present.
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A dictionary to provide the music lover with a reasonable amount of information about period instruments.
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A book by Maggie Kilbey charting the history and development of the instrument and includes a catalogue of extant instruments around the world.
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Illustrated information covering the history, development and playing techniques of instruments in the sixteenth century.
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A description of the Dulcian or Curtal, which is the renaissance predecessor of the bassoon.
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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.
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A museum in Scotland open to the public. Contains 1000 items including stringed, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments from Britain, Europe, and distant lands.
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Describes shawms, curtals, oboes, and bassoons made by Robert H. Cronin.
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Joelle Morton's homepage, detailing the use of historical bowed bass instruments, including the violone, great bass viol, viola da gamba and period double basses of all kinds.
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Description of medieval singing techniques and the musical instruments he plays.
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Information about lute, guitar and early keyboards.
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Private collection of music instruments with pictures, sound samples, history, and functional description.
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Présentations d'instruments pour les musiques du Moyen-Age. MP3 et midi à télécharger.
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Information on the Baroque flute, including instrument care and fingering charts.
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Includes links to museums and collections, historical guides, historical sources and facsimiles, societies, individual instruments, and world instruments.
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Bach sought, and had custom-built, a harpsichord which sounded like a lute. Detailed description of history and construction.
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Iconography of the horn, lute, pipe and tabor, and tambourine in Western-European Art.
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Musica Antiqua's illustrated guide: pictures, descriptions, and history.
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Descriptions and pictures of early (i.e. pre-Baroque), non-Western, or obscure musical instruments.
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At the University of South Dakota, this collection includes instruments from virtually all cultures and historical periods.
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Musicological analysis by Bob Fink of the oldest musical instrument, including its significance to the origin of music.
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Wind instrument ensembles in Italy from 1450 to 1620 by Brenda Flynn.
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Origin and history of the rebec, construction, playing, tuning, bibliography, and many illustrations.
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Information on its history, articles, art, music, recordings, players, composers, and builders.
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Paper about the stages in the origins of music and its development.
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Descriptions of instruments used for dance music during the renaissance, illustrated with period drawings.
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Includes historic keyboard instruments
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History, construction, and playing techniques.
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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.
