Early Music Shops, Makers, Instruments, Journals, Labels, Tuning, Scales and other resources for those interested in the playing, making, buying and history of the Early Music Instruments.

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

• Musical Heritage Network Instrument Encyclopedia
• 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
• Bate Collection of Musical Instruments
• Center for Study of the History of Musical Instruments (South Dakota)
• 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)
• Wind Instruments of the Renaissance
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian articles on Historical Violins
• Studio aHOYO (Baroque instruments & recordings)
• Musical Instruments in Western European Art: An Iconographical Guide (Mary Rasmussen)
• Unique Instruments (by zzounds)

Lute Pages

• Lutes - a page by Wayne Cripps
• Lute Tablature in PostScript form - a service by Wayne Cripps
• "A Variety of Lute Lessons" - collection of lute music in Fronimo-program format, a service by Mark Wheeler

All the information in this website not directly sent by their authors, has been compiled from other sites in the Internet. When possible, the author and source has been indicated.

For any inclusion, comment or suggestion, please write to email[at]early-music[dot]info