Musical Instruments

Medieval Instruments

Woodwind

• Bagpipes
• Gemshorn
• Pan pipes
• Pipe and tabor
• Recorder
• Reed pipes
• Shawm

Brass

• trumpet
• slide trumpet
• oliphant
• cornett

Keyboard

• organ
• portative organ
• hurdy-gurdy
• clavichord

Strings

Plucked strings

• harp
• lyre
• psaltrey
• dulcimer
• lute
• mandora
• gittern
• citole

Bowed instruments

• rebec
• fiddle
• bowed lyre
• tromba marina

Percussion

• tabor
• kettledrum
• tambourine
• rommelpot
• chime bells
• xylophone
• cymbals

Renaissance Instruments

Woodwind

• shawm
• bassanello
• dulcian
• sordun
• rackett
• Crumhorn
• cornamuse
• kortholt
• doppione
• bagpipes
• transverse flute
• recorder

Brass

• trumpet
• horn
• sackbutt
• cornett
• serpent

Keyboard

• organ
• regal
• harpsichord
• virginal
• spinet

Strings

Plucked

• Harp
• Lute
• theorbo
• mandora
• cittern
• ceterone
• bandora
• vihuela
• guitar

Bowed

• Viol
• Violone
• lirone
• fiddle
• violin
• viola da gamba

External Links

• Atlantian A&S Links: Musical Instruments