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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".
Horns would change too, becoming metal instruments such as the bugle (Old English word for ox). Clarion eventually became a range of notes, within the reach of natural trumpets and bugles. The cornett fingerhole wooden horns would also come to hit clarion notes. Grotesque playing a bent-tube trumpet. 1405 A.D. Grotesque playing an S-curve ...
Musical instruments used in early music, i.e. Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque European classical music, especially those instruments no longer widely used today. Contents Top
European percussion instruments (38 P) G. Ancient Greek musical instruments (27 P) I. Irish musical instruments (2 C, 22 P) L. Laz musical instruments (5 P) R.
Aurignacian flute made from an animal bone, 43,000 to 39,000 years old, Geissenklösterle (). During regular archaeological excavations, several flutes that date to the European Upper Paleolithic were discovered in caves in the Swabian Alb region of Germany.
Biniou (or biniou kozh "old style bagpipe"): a mouth blown bagpipe from Brittany. The great Highland bagpipe has also been used since the 20th century in marching bands called bagadoù and known as biniou braz ("great bagpipe"). Veuze, found in Western France around Nantes, into the Breton marshes and in the very north of Poitou (Vendée).
The cythara is a wide group of stringed instruments of medieval and Renaissance Europe, including not only the lyre and harp but also necked, string instruments. [1] In fact, unless a medieval document gives an indication that it meant a necked instrument, then it likely was referring to a lyre.
This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)