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. - http://www.windcaps.co.uk/
Bate Collection of Musical Instruments - An extensive and systematic collection of European orchestral woodwind instruments donated to the University of Oxford by Philip Bate. - http://www.bate.ox.ac.uk
Neanderthal Flute - Musicological analysis by Bob Fink of the oldest musical instrument, including its significance to the origin of music. - http://www.greenwych.ca/fl-compl.htm
Medieval and Renaissance Instruments - Musica Antiqua's illustrated guide: pictures, descriptions, and history. - http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/instrumt.html
Kenneth Sparr - Information about lute, guitar and early keyboards. - http://www.tabulatura.com/
Pifarri Page - Wind instrument ensembles in Italy from 1450 to 1620 by Brenda Flynn. - http://tiltedworld.com/brenda/pifarri.html
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.rawbw.com/~hbv/earlymus/
Instruments to Play Medieval Music - Pictures of medieval instruments with illustrations from medieval art. Includes audio clips, bibliography and discography in French. - http://www.instrumentsmedievaux.org/
Lute-Harpsichord: A Forgotten Instrument - Bach sought, and had custom-built, a harpsichord which sounded like a lute. Detailed description of history and construction. - http://www.baroquemusic.org/barluthp.html
The Saxon Lyre - History, construction, and playing techniques. - http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/lyre.html
Links to History of Musical Instruments - Includes links to museums and collections, historical guides, historical sources and facsimiles, societies, individual instruments, and world instruments. - http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/musi/Callon/2273/Instr.htm
Mary Rasmussen's Horn and Lute Iconography - Iconography of the horn, lute, pipe and tabor, and tambourine in Western-European Art. - http://www.unh.edu/music/igref.htm
Lars' Baroque Flute Corner - Information on the Baroque flute, including instrument care and fingering charts. - http://www.gruk.net/lars/BaroqueFluteCorner.html
John's Music Things - Description of medieval singing techniques and the musical instruments he plays. - http://www.cb1.com/~john/misc/music.html
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. - http://www.usd.edu/smm/
Contrabass Compendium - A list of bass and contrabass instruments, past and present. - http://www.contrabass.com/pages/compendium.html
Musical Instruments Described - Descriptions and pictures of early (i.e. pre-Baroque), non-Western, or obscure musical instruments. - http://www.radix.net/~dglenn/defs/inst.html
Rebec Page - Origin and history of the rebec, construction, playing, tuning, bibliography, and many illustrations. - http://crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/rebec.html
Dulcians - A description of the Dulcian or Curtal, which is the renaissance predecessor of the bassoon. - http://www.hansmons.com/dulcians/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
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/
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
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
Kim Christensen's Music Museum - Private collection of music instruments with pictures, sound samples, history, and functional description. - http://musicmuseum.8m.com/
Historic Double Reed Instruments - Describes shawms, curtals, oboes, and bassoons made by Robert H. Cronin. - http://www.roberthcronin.com/
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/