Early music pages: instrument makers, researchers, museums, dealers,...

• General
• Lutes etc.
• Viols, violins, bows, etc.
• Keyboard
• Woodwind etc.
• Stringmakers
• Other (cases)

General

• CIMCIM: International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections, and their Technical Drawings of Musical Instruments in Public Collections of the World
• Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments
• The Guild of American Luthiers
• The Galpin Society For the Study of Musical Instruments
• Shrine to Music Museum & Center for Study of the History of Musical Instruments
• Early Music Shop in UK
• Boulder Early Music Shop, On-Line Catalog of Music Book
• Internet Resources Related to Instrument Technology - also early
• Musicians and Instrument Makers Forum - MIMForum
• Musical Instrument Building Courses at Marholmen, Sweden
• Used Instrument Agency of the Early Music Shop
• West Dean College

Lutes etc.

• Marcello Armand-Pilon, maker of renaissance and baroque lutes, archlutes , theorboes and baroque guitars
• Stephen Barber and Sandi Harris, a range of instruments of the lute family, along with baroque guitars and vihuelas
• Lawrence K. Brown, lutemaker
• Gerhard Bos, lutemaker
• Paolo Busato, lutes, etc.
• Jirí Cepelák, lute maker
• David van Edwards, lute and bow maker
• Wolfgang Emmerich, lutemaker
• Stephen Gottlieb, lute maker
• Andreas v. Holst, lutemaker
• Alexander Hopkins, luthier
• Bernhard Kresse, 19th century guitars
• Renatus Lechner, Lauten & Gitarrenbau
• György Lörinczi, luthier
• Ivo Magherini, lutemaker
• James Marriage, lutes, archlutes, baroque guitars, chitarroni, ..., also affordable student instruments
• Cezar Mateus, lute and vihuela maker
• Charles Moller, lutes, hurdy gurdies
• Sebastián Núńez & Verónica Estevez, lutes, vihuelas, early guitars & harpsichords
• Anna Radice, plucked string instruments
• Atrhur Robb, musical instrument maker, lutes, guitars, Appalachian dulcimers, hammered dulcimers, santurs, psalteries, aeolian harps
• Martin Shepherd, lutemaker
• Eric Stefanelli, facture de luths
• George Stevens, maker of lutes, guitars and early harps
• Grant Tomlinson, lutemaker
• Giuseppe Tumiati, lutemaker
• Oliver Wadsworth, early plucked instruments: members of the lute family and early guitars
• Matthias Wagner, lute and guitar making, string distribution

• Southwell Guitars, 19th century guitars
• Guitarworkshop Kurt Decorte, restoration and conservation of original 19th century guitars
• Lutes And Early Fretted Strings sold by Lark In The Morning
• Wayne's lutes for sale's page

Viols, violins, bows, etc.

• Peter Hütmannsberger, viola da gamba maker
• Charlie Olge, viola da gamba maker
• David van Edwards, lute and bow maker
• Catgut Acoustical Society, application of scientific principles to the construction of instruments in the violin family
• Pierre Gheerardyn, violins, alto's, cello's, gamba's, baroque violins and baroque cello's, restoration of old stringed instruments.
• René-William & Michel Groppe, archetiers
• Renate Fink, viola da gamba maker
• William Jurgenson, keyboard instrument maker, also bows and basses and repairs and restorations of bowed instruments
• Lawrence K. Brown, violin maker

Keyboard

• John Phillips Harpsichords
• Keith Hill, instrument maker: harpsichords, clavichords, violins, violas da gamba, fortepianos
• Augusto Bonza: Antichi Strumenti a Tastiera, Early keyboard instruments
• BAUSATZ-ZENTRALE fuer historische Musikinstrumente
• Sebastián Núńez & Verónica Estevez, lutes, vihuelas, early guitars & harpsichords
• Steven Sorli, Lautenwerk and harpsichords
• Jan F.H. Kalsbeek, harpsichord maker
• Andrew Lagerquist, clavichords
• William Horn, harpsichord maker
• William Jurgenson, keyboard instrument maker, also bows and basses and repairs and restorations of bowed instruments

Woodwind etc.

• The von Huene Workshop, makes, sells, and repairs historical woodwinds
• Prescott Workshop, copies of historical woodwinds
• Christopher Monk Musical Instruments: cornetts, lizarden, serpents, baroque oboes, three hole pipes
• Flötenbau Thomas Fehr Stäfa
• Andreas Glatt, baroque recorders, transverse flutes
• Jan Hermans, historical woodwinds
• Terry McGee, flutes for Irish, classical and early music

Stringmakers

• Aquila Strings
• Savarez Strings
• Gamut Strings
• La Bella Strings
• Pyramid Strings

Other

• Kingam: cases for all musical instruments
• Oläger Cases, for all musical instruments
• Mooradian Cover Company, musical instrument covers and gig bags

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