Early Instrument Resources

• Links to information on Buying & Making instruments, including our extensive list of custom instrument builders online

• Links to descriptive pages for specific Instruments
• List of recordings demonstrating instruments

General Pages

• Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments (thorough reference)
  • Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments
  • Galpin Society
  • International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections
• Orpheon Museum of Historical Musical Instruments
• National Music Museum (South Dakota)
• Bate Collection of Musical Instruments
• CHICO Instrument Encyclopedia
• Compendium of Baroque Musical Instruments (Culture Kiosque)
• Early Instruments (D. Glenn Arthur Jr.)
• Diabolus in Musica Guide to Early Instruments
• Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments (Musica Antiqua, Iowa State University)
• Instruments pour jouer les musiques du Moyen Age (Christian Brassy)
  • Instrumentarium normand
• Gli strumenti musicali del Rinascimento (Andrea Bornstein)
• Musical Instruments in Western European Art: An Iconographical Guide (Mary Rasmussen)

To society links, including instrument societies

To discography links, including individual instrument discographies.

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