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.
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.
Bate Collection of Musical Instruments - An extensive and systematic collection of European orchestral woodwind instruments donated to the University of Oxford by Philip Bate.
The Early Music Shop - Selling kits and ready-made instruments such as recorders, clavichords, lutes, psalteries and citterns. Based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.
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.
Instruments to Play Medieval Music - Pictures of medieval instruments with illustrations from medieval art. Includes audio clips, bibliography and discography in French.
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.
John's Music Things - Description of medieval singing techniques and the musical instruments he plays.
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.
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.
Kim Christensen's Music Museum - Private collection of music instruments with pictures, sound samples, history, and functional description.
Lars' Baroque Flute Corner - Information on the Baroque flute, including instrument care and fingering charts.
Links to History of Musical Instruments - Includes links to museums and collections, historical guides, historical sources and facsimiles, societies, individual instruments, and world instruments.
Lute-Harpsichord: A Forgotten Instrument - Bach sought, and had custom-built, a harpsichord which sounded like a lute. Detailed description of history and construction.
Pifarri Page - Wind instrument ensembles in Italy from 1450 to 1620 by Brenda Johnstone.
Rebec Page - Origin and history of the rebec, construction, playing, tuning, bibliography, and many illustrations.
Renaissance Cittern Page - Information on its history, articles, art, music, recordings, players, composers, and builders.
Renaissance Workshop Company - Descriptions, photos, prices, and online ordering for their Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque musical instruments and kits.
The Saxon Lyre - History, construction, and playing techniques.
Serpent Website - Provides basic information for the interested lay person on all aspects of the instrument, from its early history to the present.
Stefano Meneghini's Early Music Page - Information about the harpsichord, virginal and clavichord, audio files, related links and early music iconography.
