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Here I collect links on how to build and play various instruments but also song and dance.
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Building instruments (can include playing)
Playing and Instrument Guides
Music, Song and Dance
Pre 18th Century Music Online Includes midi files, wav etc.

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Building a Hurdy Gurdy at homeTwo lessons, lots of photos.
Mandolin Nr. 001 A very nice page on building mandolins.
Re-creating the Jorvik Pan Pipes Very simple!
A Drum Lessons DatabaseHand drumming galore!
SCA Dance Database Search EngineTONS of sheetmusic, MP3's you name it.
Tape 2 of danceDance music as .ra files, (you nead Real Player) nice.
Chord structure in medieval music
MIDI downloads by Lorry WerthsFrom several different time periods. Good!
Medieval Melodies for Filking
The SCA Minstrels HomepageHome to a good mailing list and lots of fun liks.
The Dulcian Also known as a Curtal. Was the Renaissance predecessor of the bassoon.

Building Instruments

Adding a 2nd melody string to a Hurdy-Gurdy
Alden Hackmann's Hurdy-Gurdy Home Page
The Bagpipe Web Directory
Building a conduit-tubing Dulcimer
Bodhran Care
Building a Cornamuse in F(Alto)
Building a Goblet Drum
Building a Hurdy-gurdy
Building a simple check-valve for the Highland pipes
Building a simple Hammered-Dulcimer
Building a Steelpan Drum For those swinging post-nuclear nights
The Care And Feeding Of The Irish Flute
Casey's Flute Care Instructions
Ceolas Celtic Music Archive THE place for Celtic music and instrument know-how.
Constructing pipe bags for the Highland pipes
Converting a Guitar into a Mandolin
Converting a regular fiddle into a Hardanger fiddle
David Daye's Bagpipe Page He has lots of nifty construction improvements as well as general bagpipe stuff.
Drumhead Care For Most Skin Head Drums
Drum Making
The Edinburgh University Collection of Historical musical Instruments
Gemshorn
Hammered Dulcimer Stand Plan
Harpsichordist to the Internet Has how to build one, fingering, som notes etc
Highland pipes made from PVC piping
How to Build a Guitar
How to Make a Gemshorn.
How to make a Hurdy Gurdy
How to Make a Quena A traditional Andean Flute.
How to Tie a Fret Knot
Hurdy Gurdy Adjustment
The Lute Page many interesting pages.
Making a PVC pipe Fife
Making a Yokobue That is, a type of Japanese flute. Very good illustrations.
Making an End-Blown Flute and Added improvements to the End-Blown Flute
Making Bagpipes
Making Plastic Bagpipe Reeds
A Memento : The Medieval Recorder
Northumbrian Smallpipes Has good drawings.
On Restoration Or, My Flute has a Huge Crack In It
PhotoStory: How to make a violin From the Violin Makers School STRADIVARI in Cremona, Italy.
The Pipes and Drums of the 1st Royal Engineers How to play the Scottish bagpipes but the lessons are as yet only in Swedish.
A quiet pipe for night practice
The Rebec Project How to build a Rebec.
The Recorder Home Page Construction & Design.
The Reid Project Reid/Dunn Uillean Pipes at the Smithsonian Institute.
Report on Making a Clavichord after NM 264.785 in Musikmuseet at the Instrument-building Course at Marholmen Long, with lots of photos.
Rope Tuning Hand Drums
The Saxon Lyre: History, Construction and Playing Techniques.
The Serpent Website Sounds like a tuba but looks like a squashed python.
A Short Discourse Upon the Innermost Secret Workings of the Portative Organ
Stringed Instrument Care
Svensk säckpipa Hur man bygger etc.
Technical Drawings of Musical Instruments in Public Collections around the World Addresses etc.
Unusual Musical Instruments of the Middle Ages
Violin Making By Hans Johannsson
What is a Hammered Dulicmer anyway?

Playing and Guides to Instruments

Bach Plucked! About his Lute and Guitar music.
Constance Commonplace Book : Music Various interesting stuff.
Excerps on Hand positions for the lute. Several old texts from the 16th-century that are translated into English.
A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments Quite handy
Gaelic Harps & Harpers in Ireland & Scotland A history of harp development.
The Guitar, pre-1650
How to Play the Quena
How to Play the Yokobue
Hurdy-Gurdy Pictorial Gallery Lots of nice photos.
Improving your dulcimer playing
Instrumente aus Mittelalter und RenaissanceA large collection of pictures and short articles on lots of different Medieval and Renaissance instruments. In German.
The Letter of Dance..."the newsletter for Renaissance and SCA Dance" Extensive.
LOCKSLEY'S E-Z HARP METHOD Great!
Lute Page for Guitarists
Mike Simpson's Semi-Comprehensive Tin Whistle Guide
Musical Notation "This section strives to give the viewer a sense of the development of musical notation during the Middle Ages."
The Schoole of Musicke A facsimile of a Lute tutorial from 1603.
A Variety of Lute Lessons
Viola da Gamba Pages

Music, Song and Dance

An American Ballroom Companion Dances from the 1490's-1920's.
Barden Runds Visbok Lajvvisor.
Basse Alenchon A dance from the 15th and 16th century
Black Letter Ballads From the 17th century.
The Bodealian Library Broadside Ballads 17th and 18th century.
The Cantigas de Santa Maria
Dance Instruction Manuals ca 1490 - 1920
Del's dance Book 15th- and 16th-century dance.
Early Child Ballads
Early Medieval Dance Music
The English Dancing Master An instruction book from 1651.
Early Music FAQ
Fabritio Caroso's Il Ballarino (1581) An Ialian dance manual.
The Fat Guys Song Book SCA Filk, mostly from the kingdom of Drachenwald.
FILKING 101:The Folk Music of Science Fiction and the SCA.
The Gregorian Chant Home Page
Gregorian Chant Notation
The Institute for Historical Dance Practice (IHDP) About Dances from the 15th century to the 19th.
Juneborgs sångbok Har en blandning av äkta medeltids sånger och "filk".
La Trobe University Library Medieval Music Database
Medieval English Ballads
Medieval Music Links Has other periods as well.
Music and Verse About music during the Anglo-Saxon period in England.
Musicians in Medieval and Renaissance Works of Art
Music in Medieval Jewish Spain
The Music of Thomas Ravenscroft Beginning of the 17th-century.
Music Secrets, A Clarification of How Things Really Work! Lots of interesting things.
Pompadour's Early Music site 16th-18th century MIDI and other stuff.
Reading Lute Tablature
Renaissance Dance Cheat Sheets
The SCA Dance Music of Mistress Ellisif Flakkari More sheetmusic and it includes RealAudio as well.
SCA Music and Dance Homepage
The SCA Sheet Music List A long list of various types of sheet music.
Sixteenth-Century Printed Tablatures for the Lute, Vihuela, Guitar, and Cittern
Sixteenth Century Ballads: A work in progress...
The Tam Lin Pages It's about the Scottish ballad of Tam Lin.
The Villanella A dance.
Women Composers of Early Music Discography and short biographies.
THE WORLD'S OLDEST DANCE : The Origins of Oriental Dance That is Belly-dancing
Yasmina's Joy of Belly Dancing Extensive.

Pre 18th Century Music Online

Cantaria 125 songs and each with a soundclipp.
Completorium "Polish Music from Middle Ages to Baroque"
cantus planus- Gregorian Chant data files Also in German.
Comyn's Book of Songs Various songs, some with MIDI.
The Internet Renaissance Band lots of MIDI music.
Constance SongbookLOTS of Notes to various songs
Early Music Midi Files from MIDI World.
Free Sheet Music Lots of music!
Medieval Melodies for Filking
MIDI Music by Henry VIII

Sånger Från sånggruppen Dissonantia. Musikfiler text m.m.

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