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. Tapia's Gold - Instruments of the Renaissance - Descriptions of instruments used for dance music during the Renaissance, illustrated with period drawings. Culturekiosque Klassiknet: Baroque Instruments - A dictionary to provide the music lover with a reasonable amount of information about period instruments. Rebec Page - Origin and history of the rebec, construction, playing, tuning, bibliography, and many illustrations. Contrabass Compendium - A list of bass and contrabass instruments, past and present. Lars' Baroque Flute Corner - Information on the Baroque flute, including instrument care and fingering charts. Mary Rasmussen's Horn and Lute Iconography - Iconography of the horn, lute, pipe and tabor, and tambourine in Western-European Art. Links to History of Musical Instruments - Includes links to museums and collections, historical guides, historical sources and facsimiles, societies, individual instruments, and world instruments. The Saxon Lyre - History, construction, and playing techniques. Diabolus in Musica Guide to Early Instruments - Information on as many early instruments as possible. Lute-Harpsichord: A Forgotten Instrument - Bach sought, and had custom-built, a harpsichord which sounded like a lute. Detailed description of history and construction. Curtal, Dulcian, Bajón: A History of the Precursor to the Bassoon - A book by Maggie Kilbey charting the history and development of the instrument and includes a catalogue of extant instruments around the world. 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. Kenneth Sparr - Information about lute, guitar and early keyboards. Medieval and Renaissance Instruments - Musica Antiqua's illustrated guide: pictures, descriptions, and history. Neanderthal Flute - Musicological analysis by Bob Fink of the oldest musical instrument, including its significance to the origin of music. Stages in Evolution of Scales, Melody and Harmony - Paper about the stages in the origins of music and its development. Bate Collection of Musical Instruments - An extensive and systematic collection of European orchestral woodwind instruments donated to the University of Oxford by Philip Bate. Windcaps - 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. Dulcians - A description of the Dulcian or Curtal, which is the Renaissance predecessor of the bassoon. Renaissance Cittern Page - Information on its history, articles, art, music, recordings, players, composers, and builders. National 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. Kim Christensen's Music Museum - Private collection of music instruments with pictures, sound samples, history, and functional description. [English, Danish, German]