List of period instruments
The clavichord is an example of a period instrument.
In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written. Often performances by such musicians are said to be "on authentic instruments".
This article consists of a list of such instruments, including both instruments that are now obsolete and early versions of instruments that continued to be used in later classical music. This list only includes woodwind, keyboard, and brass instruments.
Renaissance (1400–1600)
Regal, c1600, from Frauenfeld Abbey, Switzerland
Woodwinds
Keyboards
Baroque (1600–1750)
Baroque violin and violoncello da spalla or viola da spalla (cello like instrument often held to chest or shoulder by a strap while playing)
Strings
- Violino piccolo
- Violin
- Viol
- Viola
- Viola d'amore
- Viola pomposa
- Tenor violin
- Cello
- Contrabass
- Violone
- Lute
- Theorbo
- Archlute
- Angélique
- Mandolin
- Baroque guitar
- Harp
- Hurdy-gurdy
A double-manual harpsichord after Jean-Claude Goujon (1749).
Woodwind
- Baroque flute
- Chalumeau
- Cortol (also known as Cortholt, Curtall, Oboe family)
- Dulcian
- Baroque oboe
- Rackett
- Recorder
Brasses
Baroque trumpet, Cornetto, Serpent, Sackbut
Keyboards
Classical (1750–1820)
A Classical 4-key boxwood clarinet, ca. 1760.
Strings
Woodwinds
Keyboards
Brasses
- Buccin
- Ophicleide—Serpent replacement, precursor of tuba
See also
External links
- Early musical instruments
- Historical Brass Instruments as described by Antique Sound Workshop, Ltd.
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