Neanderthal Flute Musicological analysis by Bob Fink of the oldest musical instrument, including it significance to the origin of music. http://www.webster.sk.ca/greenwich/fl-compl.htm

Natural Trumpet Resource Page Resources for those interested in the natural trumpet http://www.goucher.edu/physics/baum/nattrump.htm

Stages in Evolution of Scales, Melody and Harmony Paper about the stages in the origins of music and its development. http://www.webster.sk.ca/GREENWICH/stages.HTM

Medieval and Renaissance Instruments Musica Antiqua's illustrated guide: pictures, descriptions, and history. http://www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/instrumt.html

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. http://www.greatbassviol.com/

Historic Double Reed Instruments Describes shawms, curtals, oboes, and bassoons made by Robert H. Cronin. http://www.roberthcronin.com/

Renaissance Cittern Page Information on its history, articles, art, music, recordings, players, composers, and builders. http://www.geocities.com/ren_cittern

Kim Christensen's Music Museum Private collection of music instruments with pictures, sound samples, history, and functional description. http://musicmuseum.8m.com/

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. http://www.tsoft.com/~hbv/earlymus/

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. http://www.ancestral.co.uk/

A Loud, Low Cost Cornemuse You Can Build from CPVC Build a cornemuse in 1.5 hours, from an archived discussion from the Musical Instrument Makers Forum. http://www.mimf.com/archives/cpvc_cornemuse.htm

Tapia's Gold - Instruments of the Renaissance Descriptions of instruments used for dance music during the renaissance, illustrated with period drawings. http://www.tapiasgold.com/instruments.html

Stefano Meneghini's Early Music Page Information about the harpsichord, virginal and clavichord, audio files, related links and early music iconography. http://www-ceb.bo.infn.it/meneghini/music_e.htm

Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments A museum in Scotland open to the public contains 1000 items including stringed, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments from Britain, Europe, and distant lands. http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/

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. http://www.jeremywest.co.uk/index.html

Culturekiosque Klassiknet: Baroque Instruments A dictionary to provide the music lover with a reasonable amount of information about period instruments. http://www.culturekiosque.com/klassik/features/fa1baroq.htm

Dulcians A description of the Dulcian or Curtal, which is the renaissance predecessor of the bassoon. http://www.hansmons.com/dulcians/index.html

Organ of the Middle Ages History of the organ in western Europe after the fall of Rome. http://panther.bsc.edu/~jhcook/OrgHist/history/hist002.htm

Rebec Page Origin and history of the rebec, construction, playing, tuning, bibliography, and many illustrations. http://crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/rebec.html

Wind Instruments of the Renaissance Information on wind instruments of the Renaissance. http://www.dreamscape.com/quando7/index.htm